Seitz, Helmut; Freigang, Dirk; Kempkes, Gerhard - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005
The paper examines the effects of demographic change on federal, state and local government expenditures in Germany. Public spending is decomposed into almost 30 categories (functions) and simple estimates of age cost profiles are derived. Using population forecasts and assuming timeinvariant...
