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Finance and Economics Discussion Series: Should America Save for Its Old Age? Population Aging, National Saving, and Fiscal Policy (en Inglés)
United States Federal Reserve Board
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Douglas Elmendorf
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Louise Sheiner
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series: Should America Save for Its Old Age? Population Aging, National Saving, and Fiscal Policy (en Inglés) - United States Federal Reserve Board ; Elmendorf, Douglas ; Sheiner, Louise
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Reseña del libro "Finance and Economics Discussion Series: Should America Save for Its Old Age? Population Aging, National Saving, and Fiscal Policy (en Inglés)"
While popular wisdom holds that the United States should save more now in anticipation of the aging of the baby boom generation, the optimal response to population aging from a macroeconomic perspective is not clear-cut. Indeed, Cutler, Poterba, Sheiner, and Summers ("CPSS,"1990) argued that the optimal response to the coming demographic transition was more likely to be a reduction in national saving than an increase. In this paper we reexamine this question. In particular, we ask how the optimal saving response depends on the openness of our economy, on how we view the consumption of children, and on the existence of pay-as-you-go transfer programs like Social Security and Medicare. We find that, if the United States were a small open economy and world interest rates were fixed at their current level, the desire to smooth consumption as our population aged would lead us to increase saving today. But the optimal response in a closed economy is much less clear-cut, as slower growth of the labor force will push down the rate of return on capita l and diminish desired saving. For reasonable parameters, the optimal response to our aging population in a closed economy is likely to be small--either a small decline in national saving or a small increase. We also explore the role of the government in population aging. Government programs can influence consumption if they affect the capital-labor ratio or the relative weight that society places on the consumption of the elderly.
