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Redistributive policies in general equilibrium

This Technical Report develops a general equilibrium OLG model to evaluate a wide menu of popular redistributive policies in a unified context.

date:  19/10/2021

author:  George Economides, Apostolis Philippopoulos, and Stylianos Sakkas

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The study concentrates first on how initial conditions in human and financial capital, as inherited from family background, shape individuals' human capital, and hence their work opportunities, income and wealth, and eventually macroeconomic outcomes. Second, it deals with the policies which can reduce this type of inequality without, hopefully, damaging macroeconomic efficiency.