The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts (2008)
Revised version of http://hdl.handle.net/2022/2833
The Extension of Social Security Coverage in Developing Countries (2007)
We investigate the effects of extending the coverage of social security to uncovered elderly individuals in the informal sector in developing countries. We use a stochastic overlapping generations...
The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts (2007)
This paper has been revised. The revised version is at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3116
Public Pensions and Capital Accumulation: The Case of Brazil
Gerhard Glomm, Jürgen Jung, Changmin Lee, Chung Tran
We use an OLG model to study the effects of the generous public sector pension system in Brazil. In our model there are two types of workers, one working in the private sector, the other working in...
Macroeconomic Implications of Early Retirement in the Public Sector: The Case of Brazil
Gerhard Glomm, Juergen Jung, Chung Tran
In Brazil generous public sector pensions have induced civil servants to retire on average at age 55. In this paper we use an OLG model to assess the effects of such policy induced early retirement...
The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts
We analyze whether a consumer driven health care plan like the newly established Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) can reduce health care expenditures in the United States and increase the fraction of...
The Extension of Social Security Coverage in Developing Countries
We investigate the effects of extending the coverage of social security to uncovered elderly individuals in the informal sector in developing countries. We use a stochastic overlapping generations...
In this paper, I analyze the crowding-out effects of public transfers on labor supply of the elderly in the context of developing countries. I argue that the interactions between private transfers...