Im Zuge des fortschreitenden demografischen Wandels werden vermehrt die Rolle und die Bedeutung älterer Menschen für die gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung diskutiert. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht Innovationen durch und für Ältere als einen spezifischen und wichtigen...

The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China's population fell as deaths surpassed births. Pundits worry that a declining Chinese workforce means trouble for other economies that have come to rely on China's exports. France is pushing through an increase...

be left unharvested to avoid CO2 emissions and retain stored carbon, or harvested to take advantage of carbon entering post-harvest wood product (PHWP) pools while new growth removes CO2 from the atmosphere. To examine carbon rotation ages that consider commercial timber plus carbon prices,...

This paper discusses intergenerational equity in terms of age of retirement and average number of years to be spent in retirement for successive cohorts in Canada. It demonstrates that using average retirement age (or median retirement age) as was done in the past in Canada, leads to very...

This paper analyzes how population aging affects the government expenditure composition, economic growth, and social welfare under democracy using an overlapping generations model. As public investment and welfare expenditures are financed by income tax, intergenerational conflicts remain in the...