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annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …
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annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …
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Phelpsís (1961) Golden Rule states an unambiguous relationship between optimal capital intensity and fertility: a rise … in fertility decreases the optimal capital intensity, because a higher fertility increases the investment required to … having distinct fertility behaviors. We derive the optimal accumulation rule in that framework, and we show that, unlike what …
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factors such as fertility rates and longevity to prices. We show that lower fertility rates lead to smaller demand for credits …
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most cited drivers; decreasing fertility, decreasing mortality, and a slowdown of technological growth. We do this through … global real interest rate. The model predicts a 2.25 percentage point decrease from 1950 until today with falling mortality … generating most of the decline. We calibrate the second country on Danish data and show how differences in mortality can help …
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Life-cycle theory predicts ageing exerting long-term macroeconomic impacts through the reduction of private savings. However, empirical research studying macroeconomic determinants of savings generally regard age dependency as the sole measure of ageing, but overlook longevity, which can also...
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This paper provides a theoretical foundation for a U-shaped evolution in the retirement age. By assuming no markets for annuities markets in a simple two period overlapping generations model with lifetime uncertainty, we show that increasing life expectancy can explain the observed evolution in...
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Welfare States do not insure citizens against the risk of premature death, i.e., the risk of having a short life. Using a dynamic OLG model with risky lifetime, this paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk of early death: (i) an ante-mortem age-based...
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While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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