Public Debt and Low Interest Rates

Public Debt and Low Interest Rates

This notebook fully replicates the analysis of the stochastic overlapping generations (OLG) model developed by Blanchard in his presidential address during the AEA meetings 2019.

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Blanchard, O. (2019). Public debt and low interest rates. American Economic Review, 109(4), 1197-1229.

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This notebook fully replicates the analysis of the stochastic overlapping generations (OLG) model developed by Blanchard in his presidential address during the AEA meetings 2019.

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Install miniconda on your computer

  1. Open a Terminal (MacOS) or the Anaconda Prompt (Windows)
  2. At a command line, change the working directory to the one where you want to install
    • On MacOS/unix, if you install in the /tmp directory, the repo will disappear at reboot:
    • cd /tmp
  3. git clone https://github.com/econ-ark/BlanchardPA2019 --recursive
  4. cd BlanchardPA2019
  5. conda env create -f ./binder/environment.yml --prefix ./condaenv
    • This creates ./condaenv inside your clone of the repo, containing dependencies.
  6. conda run --prefix ./condaenv pip install jupyterlab
  7. conda run --prefix ./condaenv jupyter-lab

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