Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/118755 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge No. 62-97
Publisher: 
Universität Siegen, Fakultät III, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht, Siegen
Abstract: 
We model a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system as a series of incomplete intergenerational contracts. Each generation pays a pension to its parents as the price for a premortal transferral of economic property rights. The terms of this intergenerational trade are fixed in a social contract, which due to its long-term nature is incomplete and likely to be renegotiated after some of the initial uncertainty has been resolved. In between, however, investments and education efforts have to be carried out which affect the value of the economic resources to be transferred between generations. This set-up creates a number of intergenerational externalities (including a canonical hold-up problem) which may contribute to the explanation of those problems that real-world PAYG public pension systems currently face.
Subjects: 
Pay-as-you-go Pension Systems
Incomplete Contracts
Social Contracts
JEL: 
H55
L14
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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