Work Packages
Work package 5
Decision making and general equilibrium
WP Leader
UB
Analyse from a theoretical and empirical point of view some lifecycle economic decisions that are at the core of the three axes of development.
Investigate how fertility and saving decisions interact with development, including the general equilibrium effects. Determine the way preferences itself might have been affected by the development process.
Tasks
- Systematic literature review
- Endogenous fertility and welfare policy
- Develop a large scale quantitative macroeconomic model to predict rates of return to capital
- Contribute to build the macro module of the projection model build in WP3
- Social preferences