TY - BOOK AU - Buiter,Willem H. AU - Kletzer,Kenneth M. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Capital Mobility, Fiscal Policy and Growth under Self-Financing of Human Capital Formation T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 1995/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - May 1995; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - This paper considers the effects of fiscal and financial policy on economic growth in open and closed economies, when human capital formation by young households is constrained by the illiquidity of human wealth. Both endogenous and exogenous growth versions of the basic OLG model are analyzed. We find that intergenerational redistribution policies that discourage physical capital formation may encourage human capital formation. Despite common technologies and perfect international mobility of financial capital, the non- tradedness of human capital and the illiquidity of human wealth make for persistent differences in productivity growth rates (in the endogenous growth version of the model) or in their levels (in the exogenous growth version). We also consider the productivity growth (or level) effects of public spending on education and of the distortionary taxation of financial asset income UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w5120 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w5120 ER -