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The Dutch disease and intergenerational welfare

Andersen, Jørgen Juel
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/93472
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2013
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Original version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.605762
Abstract
Governments in resource abundant economies face a tradeo¤ between transferring wealth

to present generations and saving for future generations. Employing an overlapping genera-

tions framework with endogenous growth, this paper analyzes the intergenerational welfare

e¤ects of: (1) a wealth transfer policy where the entire wealth is transferred to the gen-

erations alive at present; (2) an income transfer policy where the wealth is saved and the

permanent income of the wealth is transferred to all present and future generations, forever.

Not surprisingly, present generations are unambiguously better o¤ with the wealth transfer

policy. Less trivially, however, the wealth transfer policy can be associated with higher wel-

fare also for future generations. The intuition for this result is that while a wealth transfer

depresses growth only in the periods subsequent to the transfer, income transfers constitute

a permanent drag on growth. Perhaps counter to the naïve intuition, the policy of saving

the wealth and distributing the permanent income to all present and future generations is

less bene cial for the future generations if the real return to saving is high
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This is the author’s final, accepted and refereed manuscript to the article
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Journal
Applied Economics

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