Overlapping Generations Model

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Reference material used for orientation; read primary and academic sources first when claims conflict.

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   Samuelson (1958) -- An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest, the original overlapping generations paper with fiat money.

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2. [S2] Reference

   Diamond (1965) -- National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model, introduced capital accumulation into OLG and characterized dynamic efficiency.

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3. [S3] Reference

   Blanchard (1985) -- Debt, Deficits, and Finite Horizons, the perpetual youth continuous-time OLG tractable for macro policy analysis.

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   Auerbach and Kotlikoff (1987) -- Dynamic Fiscal Policy, the large-scale multi-period OLG model for applied tax and transfer analysis.

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   Rios-Rull (1996) -- Life-Cycle Economies and Aggregate Fluctuations, stochastic OLG with realistic demographics.

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