Contents : Demographic change - Overlapping generations - Serendipity Theorem - Exact general necessary and sufficient conditions - Optimal population in a laissez-faire economy with and without social security - The economic dependency ratio and optimal population.
The Author: Wolfgang Kuhle studied economics at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2002 to 2006. He was student assistant at the Chair for Economic Theory and teaching assistant at the Department of Economics. Since 2007 he is working on his dissertation at the macroeconomics unit of the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).