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Calcutta, Indian Institute Of Management, 1991.
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Description |
Paperback Volume
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Series |
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Working Paper Series
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Summary/Abstract |
The overlapping generations model is a simple but powerful device for analyzing competitive equilibrium over time. The model is especially suitable for studying questions of intertemporal welfare economics. In the paper that launched the model, Samuelson (1958) demonstrated the existence of a competitive equilibrium that fails the test of Pareto Optimality.
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