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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  6. conda run --prefix ./condaenv pip install jupyterlab
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abstract 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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