The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different...

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price...

Pascal Saint-Amans, OECD, stellt die Vorschläge der OECD und eine Analyse ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Steuereinnahmen und die Investitionstätigkeit vor. Demnach dürften die Steuereinnahmen weltweit erheblich steigen, das globale Investitionsniveau dagegen kaum ändern. Clemens Fuest, ifo...

We discuss the ongoing liberalization process in the market for addressed letter mail in Switzerland. The paper assesses the impact of the liberalization on the financial viability of various universal service obligations with and without access to the incumbent's downstream delivery network for...

The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland until 2050. To quantify the effects on social security and public finances, we use an overlapping generations model with five margins of labor supply: labor market...