Index

Stephen E. Spear (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Warren Young (Bar Ilan University, Israel)

Overlapping Generations: Methods, Models and Morphology

ISBN: 978-1-83753-053-3, eISBN: 978-1-83753-052-6

ISSN: 1571-0386

Publication date: 4 September 2023

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Spear, S.E. and Young, W. (2023), "Index", Overlapping Generations: Methods, Models and Morphology (International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Vol. 32), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 241-248. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-038620230000032028

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Copyright © 2023 Stephen E. Spear and Warren Young


INDEX

Ad hoc modeling of expectation formation
, 46

Agents
, 3

Aggregate capital stock
, 189

Agricultural technology
, 173

Aiyagari’s observational equivalence research program (Aiyagari’s OE research program)
, 114

Aiyagari–Bewley models
, 118, 161

Aiyagari–Bewley–Huggett models
, 118, 180

Altermatt’s model
, 179

Alternating current
, 2

American Economic Association
, 45, 187

American Economic Review (1965) (AER)
, 28

Apple’s MacIntosh system
, 1

Apple’s system
, 1

Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium theory
, 80

Arrow-Kurz analysis
, 122

Arrow–Debreu economy
, 88

Arrow–Debreu equilibrium
, 74, 82

Arrow–Debreu framework
, 72

Arrow–Kurz contention
, 124, 128

Asset Prices
, 70

Asset pricing model
, 77

Auerbach–Kotlikoff approach
, 144

Auerbach–Kotlikoff modeling technique
, 168

Auerbach–Kotlikoff simulation model
, 125, 128

Balasko–Cass–Shell
, 85, 107

Balasko–Shell Analysis
, 85

Balasko–Shell argument
, 148

Balasko–Shell papers
, 85, 89

Banach contraction mapping theorem
, 180, 187

Bargaining process
, 195

Barro’s dynastic solution
, 122

Barro’s model
, 58

Belief function
, 167

Bellman equation
, 57, 180

Bellman’s dynamic programming
, 50

Bellman’s functional equation
, 188

Benhabib–Day model
, 109

Benhabib–Miao–Wang model
, 167

Bernheim–Bagwell analysis
, 122

Bernheim–Bagwell criticism
, 122, 126

Bi-infinite model
, 36

Bifurcations
, 166

Big Bang
, 2

Bisexual GW process
, 133

Blanchard’s model
, 133

Blanchard–Kahn conditions
, 108

Blanchard–Yaari model
, 133, 144, 159

Bloise–Calciano approach
, 162

Blume’s techniques
, 140

Bonafide monetary policy
, 90

Bonafide policies
, 90

Boomers

chaos
, 108

generation
, 184

incomplete markets and financial frictions
, 117

Kehoe and Levine
, 99

observational equivalence
, 114

pushback
, 121

stochastic OLG
, 134

welfare issues
, 148

Bootstrap process
, 161

Bootstrapping technique
, 119, 131, 140

Brock–Scheinkman model
, 71

Brouwer theorem
, 58

Buchanan’s criticism
, 125

Budget constraints
, 136

Business cycle models
, 121

Business cycle phenomena
, 167

Calibrated RBC-type models
, 164

Calibration
, 70

Canonical augmentations of OLG approach
, 210

Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration (Carnegie Mellon University’s GSIA)
, 44

Carnegie–Rochester Conference on Money, Monetary Policy, and Financial Institutions (1983)
, 76

Cass, David
, 30

Cass-Yaari analysis
, 30

Cass–Okuno–Zilcha paper
, 64, 69

Cass–Shell criticism
, 77

Cass–Shell divorce
, 93

Cass–Shell paper
, 97

Cass–Shell rebuttal
, 69

Cass–Yaari circular model
, 74

Cass–Yaari model
, 63

CEPREMAP
, 79, 81, 108

Chaos
, 108

Chattopadhyay–Gottardi
, 154

Cobb-Douglas production functions
, 129

Competing systems
, 2

Competitive equilibrium
, 88, 90

Computation
, 179

Computer operating systems
, 1

Conditional optimality
, 150

Consumption-loans model
, 16, 127

Continuation function
, 56

Continuous function
, 102

Continuous random state variable
, 50

Continuous time stochastic differential equations
, 207

Continuous-time formulations
, 100

Continuous-time model
, 132

Contraction mappings
, 58

Convention ILA paradigm
, 185

Conventional Aiyagari–Bewley models
, 118

Conventional approaches
, 130

Conventional DMP models
, 195

Conventional general equilibrium theory
, 197

Conventional ILA approach
, 130

Conventional NK-DSGE model
, 192

Conventional OLG models
, 133

Conventional public goods model
, 126

Conventional RCK model
, 163

Coordination mechanism
, 167

Corbae, Temzelides, and Wright paper (CTW paper)
, 178

Cornell’s Economics Department
, 95

Cowles Foundation
, 201

Cross-state budget constraints
, 49

Culmination
, 12

Cultural lag
, 23

Demange’s analysis
, 154

Demographers
, 19

Demographic transition
, 172

Demography
, 172

Denotation
, 183

Determinacy
, 105, 165

Deterministic models
, 148

Diamond model
, 24, 114, 131, 153

Diamond’s 1965 approach
, 28

Diamond’s OLG model
, 70

Diamond–Dybvig model
, 167

Diamond–Mortensen–Pissarides (DMP)
, 194

Diesel electric hybrid technology
, 1

Difference equation system
, 22, 105

Differential equations
, 50, 100, 207

Direct current
, 2

Disaggregated approach
, 44

Dixit–Stiglitz model
, 163

of monopolistic competition
, 164

Dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium (DSGE)
, 3

Dynamic economics
, 53, 105

Dynamic programming approach
, 56, 132

Dynamic programming framework
, 58

Dynamic programming techniques
, 54

Dynamic programming technology
, 187

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)
, 5

Dynamic system
, 22, 100, 102, 175, 200

analysis
, 22, 100

EconLit database
, 16

Economie et Interet
, 14

Electrification
, 2

Enforcement mechanisms
, 63

Equation system
, 135

Equilibria
, 140

Equilibrium
, 96

concept
, 143

equations
, 21, 96, 103, 105

money prices
, 90

phenomenon
, 45

price
, 106

second-order difference equation
, 131

stochastic process
, 120

Essays in the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth
, 30

Euler equations
, 56

Ex post optimality
, 154

Ex post Pareto optimality
, 154

Exogenous Malthusian mechanism
, 173

Exogenous stochastic process
, 149

Expectations correspondence
, 143

Externalities
, 163

Family altruism
, 185

Farmer’s approach
, 195

Farmer’s belief functions
, 195

Farmer’s model
, 114, 195

Farmer’s OxREP paper
, 194

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, The
, 64

Feldstein’s criticism
, 125

Feynman integrity
, 186

Field equations
, 2

Financial frictions, incomplete markets and
, 117

Finite-dimensional Arrow–Debreu–McKenzie model
, 12, 53

Finite-dimensional Euclidean vectors
, 71

First Welfare theorem
, 88

First-order conditions (FOCs)
, 119

First-order difference equation system
, 56, 104, 106

First-order Markov process
, 150

First-order stochastic difference equation for equilibrium
, 119

Fisher critique
, 21

Fisher model
, 40

Foreign exchange
, 62

Formal non-standard analysis
, 149

Formalized canonical foundational OLG model
, 210

Forward difference equation
, 100

Forward dynamic programming algorithm
, 58, 187

Foundational OLG model
, 209

Foundations of Economic Analysis
, 11

Four-period cycle
, 111

French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
, 79

French Ministry of Research
, 79

Function theorem on Banach space
, 139

Functional analytic techniques
, 114

Functional equation
, 57

Gale
, 36

approach
, 37

balanced equilibrium
, 131

paper
, 37

theorem
, 37

Galor–Weil model
, 174

Galton–Watson process
, 133

Gauss–Seidel method
, 180

Geanakoplos, Magill, and Quinzii (GMQ)
, 175

Geanakoplos–Brown analysis
, 148

Gen X

computation
, 179

demography and wealth
, 172

search
, 177

social security
, 168

theory
, 160

General Equilibrium
, 200

theory
, 142

General Morphological Analysis (GMA)
, 199

Generational accounting mechanism
, 171

Genetic algorithms
, 182

Goenka’s model
, 165

Golden rule allocation
, 27

Golden rule equilibrium
, 36

Gomperty’s law
, 132

Google
, 117

Google Scholar search
, 118, 141, 159

Graded age-group sets
, 8

Grandmont-Malgrange JET symposium
, 131

Grandmont’s approach
, 113

Grandmont’s earlier expectations function approach
, 195

Grandmont’s model
, 109

Grandmont’s temporary equilibrium work
, 82

Greenspan Commission
, 168

Grobman-Hartman Theorem
, 101, 104

GSIA working paper collection
, 138

Hamiltonian dynamic systems approach
, 187

Hansen–Prescott approach
, 173

Harenberg–Ludwig model
, 171

Henriksen–Spear paper
, 154

Heterogenous Agent New Keynesian model (HANK model)
, 210

History-dependent equilibrium
, 162

History-dependent SOLG framework
, 139

Hopf bifurcation
, 131

Human capital accumulation
, 163

Hybrid OLG-ILA model
, 134

Hyperbolic dynamic systems
, 101

IEA conference (1970)
, 29

Industrial Organization
, 1

Infinite sequences
, 87

Infinite-dimensional vector
, 87

Infinite-lived agent model (ILA model)
, 3, 8, 11, 106, 112, 132, 150, 180, 185, 183, 206

approach
, 118, 209

of chaos
, 114

environment
, 149

ILA-based research
, 205

papers
, 7

Infinite-lived representative agent approach
, 13, 70

Infinity paradox
, 30

Inflationary equilibria
, 40

Interest rate
, 30

Intergenerational models
, 71

Intergenerational transfer process
, 178

International Economic Review
, 24

International Economics Association Conference Proceedings (1973) (IEA Conference Proceedings)
, 29

Invariant manifolds
, 100

Inverse relationship
, 44

ISI Web of Science
, 7

Iterated function systems
, 144

Jordan matrix
, 107

Journal of Economic Literature communication (1987)
, 15

Journal of Economic Theory
, 95, 112

Journal of Political Economy (JPE)
, 16

Kehoe, Tim
, 99

Kehoe–Levine papers (K&L papers)
, 100, 102, 108

Keynes’ terminology
, 164

Keynesian approach of modeling
, 44

Keynesian models
, 195

Keynesian search model
, 195

Keynesian-based Harrodian growth model
, 183

King Lear
, 15

Kitchin cycle
, 200

Kitchin–Juglar–Kondratieff
, 200

Kiyotaki and Wright paper (KW paper)
, 177

Kondratieff cycle
, 200

Krueger–Kubler paper
, 170

Krusell–Smith algorithm
, 162, 190

Krusell–Smith paper
, 161

Kurz’s econometric test of the second hypothesis
, 125

Kydland–Prescott approach
, 186

Laissez faire competitive pricing
, 23

Laissez-faire free-floating exchange rate regime
, 63

Large-scale SOLG models
, 179

Lerner asserts
, 19

Lerner-Samuelson Debate
, 19

Lerner–Meckling–Samuelson debate
, 23

Levine, David
, 99

Lifecycle context
, 129

Lifecycle models
, 172

Lineal process
, 16

Linear dynamic system
, 101

Linear equation systems
, 136

Linear utility specification
, 34

Logical approach
, 43

Logical approach of McCallum’s minimal state variable criterion
, 189

Lucas Critique
, 165

Lucas model
, 47, 71, 135

Lucas-proof forecast rule
, 165

MacIntosh
, 1

Macroeconomic analysis
, 3

Macroeconomic Dynamics
, 91

Macroeconomics
, 98, 183, 191, 200

Macroeconomists
, 6

Malinvaud’s capital value minimization condition
, 22

Malthusian technology
, 173

Marginal rate of transformation (MRT)
, 83

Marginal utility
, 151

Markov chain
, 95

Markov equilibria
, 161

Markov equilibrium process
, 143

Mathematical Social Sciences Board (MSSB)
, 92

Mathematical techniques
, 187

Mathematics of chaos theory
, 110

Maximum Principle text
, 58

McCallum’s argument
, 76

Meckling-Samuelson Debate
, 20

Microsoft
, 1

dominance
, 1

machine
, 1

MS-DOS system
, 1

system
, 1

Minimum state variable approach
, 121

Minneapolis Fed Conference (1978)
, 63

Minnesota Fed conference (1980)
, 178

Mirrlees model
, 83

Models of Monetary Economies
, 64

Monetary economics
, 61, 69, 79, 200

Monetary policy puzzle
, 44

Monetary reform
, 35

Money
, 20, 69

tenuousness of
, 75

Money and Interest
, 43

Morphological approaches
, 200

Muller–Woodford paper
, 133

Multi-generation society
, 84

Multi-period SOLG models
, 166

Multigenerational models
, 209

MY ratio
, 175

Nash bargaining process
, 179

National Science Foundation
, 40

Natural Rate Hypothesis (NRH)
, 165

Negishi approach
, 182

Neoclassical growth model
, 11

Neoclassical synthesis approach
, 183

New Classical Macroeconomic Analytical Toolkit
, 165

New Keynesian DSGE model
, 41

New Keynesian models
, 122

New Neoclassical Synthesis of RBC
, 122

Non-linear equation systems
, 136

Non-linearity of difference equation
, 112

Non-stationary deterministic equilibrium dynamics
, 140

Non-stationary dynamics
, 140

Non-stationary equilibrium trajectories
, 37

Observational Equivalence
, 114

Offer curve
, 26

Office of Naval Research
, 40

One-sector capital model
, 55

One-sector optimization problem
, 56

Optimal taxation
, 83

Optimality criteria
, 155

Optimum social security
, 24

Overlapping generations model (OLG model)
, 3, 13, 63, 118, 127, 159

approach
, 7, 108, 199, 209

Balasko–Shell analysis
, 85

Barro’s reinterpretation of
, 5

Cass and Yaari
, 30

demographics
, 123

Diamond Model
, 24

economies
, 144, 148

framework
, 43, 62, 84

inefficiency
, 31

Lerner-Samuelson Debate
, 19

Meckling-Samuelson Debate
, 20

model
, 33, 36, 53, 75, 81, 84, 90, 93, 99, 100, 102, 106, 108, 124, 150, 160, 177, 180, 183

morphology tree diagram
, 200

optimal taxation and public finance
, 83

paper
, 7

Shell
, 33

Starrett and Gale
, 36

sunspots
, 91

temporary equilibrium
, 79

theorists
, 43

Pairing process
, 179

Parameterized expectations approach (PEA)
, 181

Pareto optimal
, 35, 64, 115, 190

allocation
, 89

steady-state equilibria
, 114

Pareto optimality
, 75

Pareto optimum
, 53

Parsimony
, 205

Parsimony dimension
, 206

Paul Samuelson’s overlapping generations model
, 14

Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO)
, 147, 169

fund
, 69

social security system
, 171

system
, 168

Peck–Shell models
, 167

Penn theory workshop
, 92

Period infinity
, 111

Perpetual youth model
, 33

Perron–Frobenius theorem
, 152

Personal computing
, 1

Perturbation techniques
, 160

Pessimism
, 63

Philadelphia connection
, 98

Philadelphia Pholk theorem
, 98, 184

Phillips curve
, 44

Phillips curve relationship
, 45

Policy function iteration
, 181

Political economy
, 123

Ponzi schemes
, 23, 118

Post-Conference contributions
, 64

Prediction
, 205

President’s Commission on Pension Policy (1979)
, 124

Prices
, 87

Private communication from Shell
, 93, 98

ProQuest database of dissertations
, 8

Psychological phenomena
, 161

Public finance
, 83

Pure Currency
, 70

Quadratic logistic map
, 110

Qualitative policy implications
, 130

Quantitative model
, 170

Quantity equation
, 43

Ramsey project
, 12

Ramsey’s model
, 11

Ramsey’s specification of model
, 11

Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model (RCK model)
, 3, 13, 46, 54, 95, 112, 210

Rawlsian criterion
, 83

Re-aiming process
, 22

Re-examination paper
, 32

Real Business Cycle Model (RBC Model)
, 189, 210

Realistic process
, 133

Recursive competitive equilibrium
, 154

Recursive dynamic programming
, 187

Recursive equilibrium
, 143, 161

Recursive Methods text
, 55, 117

Relativity equations
, 2

Rene Thom’s transversality theorem
, 136

Representative Agent New Keynesian model (RANK model)
, 210

Representative agents
, 3, 211

Return function
, 56, 58

Ricardian equivalence
, 123

Ricardian neutrality
, 127

Rios-Rull’s model
, 147

Rios-Rull’s simulation
, 144

framework
, 147

Samuelson-Gale dichotomy
, 15

Samuelson’s consumption loans model
, 30

Samuelson’s model
, 15, 19, 30, 46

of overlapping generations
, 46

Samuelson’s OLG development
, 15

Samuelsonian case
, 38, 75

Samuelsonian economy
, 47

Samuelsonian equilibrium
, 21

Samuelsonian monetary equilibrium
, 131

Samuelson–Meckling debate
, 68

Science
, 2

Second asset
, 68

Second Welfare theorem
, 88

Second-order difference equation
, 56, 104

Second-order equation
, 57

Sequential budget constraints
, 81

Shell
, 33

Shell’s Philadelphia Pholk theorem
, 132, 163

Shock process
, 36

Short-memory equilibria
, 160

Signal extraction
, 46

Social contrivance of money
, 21

Social credit system
, 15

Social institutions
, 20

Social Science Citation Index
, 7

Social sciences
, 2

Social Security
, 69, 130, 159, 168

Social Security Administration
, 130

Social Security system
, 126

Social welfare criterion
, 83

Social welfare function
, 84

Societal intertemporal MRS (SMRS)
, 83

Solovian technology
, 173

Solow’s neoclassical model
, 24

Solow–Meade–Swan neoclassical approach
, 183

Spear’s approach
, 136

Spear’s recollections
, 138

Spear–Srivastava paper
, 139

Stable manifolds
, 99

Standard dynamic systems theory
, 104

Standard finite-dimensional techniques
, 49

Standardization
, 2

Starrett
, 36

Static general equilibrium models
, 155

Stationary Markov equilibria
, 161

Steady state monetary equilibria
, 131

Steady-state equilibrium
, 106

Steve’s thesis
, 93

Stigler conviction
, 186

Stochastic difference equations
, 141, 155

Stochastic OLG (SOLG)
, 117, 134

application
, 160

environment
, 148, 156

models
, 141, 149, 154, 162, 181

search
, 159

setting
, 190

simulations
, 189

Stochastic overlapping generations models
, 137

Stochastic process
, 154

Stochastic RCK model
, 184

Stochastic steady-state equilibria
, 159

Stone–Weierstrass theorem
, 181

Subsidy to investment
, 130

Sunspots
, 91

stochastic process
, 121

Systematic analytical method
, 199

t-equilibrium price sequence
, 88

Tax reform
, 129

Temporary equilibrium
, 50, 79, 181

model
, 81, 195

theory
, 74, 80

Temporary General Equilibrium Theory
, 80

Tenuousness of monetary equilibrium
, 62

Tenuousness of money
, 75

Third-order difference equation
, 22

Thom’s theorem
, 137

Three-period model
, 22

Time homogeneous Markov equilibrium
, 143

Tobin’s discussion
, 70

Tractability
, 205

Traditional presumption
, 77

Transition matrix
, 152

Turnpike model
, 74

Two-generation 1958 approach
, 24

Two-period lived agents model
, 102

U.S. Social Security
, 23

University of Minnesota Institute of Mathematics
, 109

Unstable manifolds
, 99

US Social Security system
, 185

Utilitarian approaches
, 84

Value function
, 56

Wallace, Neil
, 61

contention
, 68

key argument
, 62

paper
, 68

Walras’ law
, 48, 104

Weak Pareto Optimality
, 23

Wealth
, 172

Welfare issues
, 148

Wilson’s paper
, 132

Woodford’s approach
, 139

Workhorse models

infinite-lived agents and neoclassical growth model
, 11

overlapping generations model
, 13

Xerox’s original X-windows interface
, 1

Xerox’s windowed graphical user interface
, 1

Yaari, Menahem
, 30

Young agents
, 105