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Title Uncertain demographics and fiscal sustainability / edited by Juha M. Alho, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Jukka Lassila
Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Uncertain demographics; 2 Changing views of future demographic trends; 3 Empirically based specification of uncertainty; COMMENT The UPE forecasts: strengths, innovations, developments; Part II Measuring sustainability in a stochastic environment; 4 Fiscal implications of demographic uncertainty: comparisons across the European Union; 5 Demographic uncertainty and pension projections; 6 Demographic uncertainty and health care expenditure
COMMENT Assessing the uncertainty in long-term fiscal projectionsPart III Enhancing sustainability; 7 Evaluating pension reforms in the German context; 8 Longevity adjustment of pension benefits; 9 Ageing, demographic uncertainty and optimal fiscal policy; COMMENT Computable equilibrium models in policy analysis: future directions; Part IV Extensions; 10 Macro-economic consequences of demographic uncertainty in world regions; 11 Informational assumptions, aggregate mortality risk and life-cycle saving
12 Uncertain demographics, longevity adjustment of the retirement age and intergenerational risk-sharing13 A general equilibrium analysis of annuity rates in the presence of aggregate mortality risk; COMMENT The economics of demographic uncertainty; Index
Summary Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability addresses the economic consequences of uncertainty in demographic forecasting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human services -- Finance -- Forecasting
Population forecasting -- Europe -- Methodology
Fiscal policy -- Europe -- Econometric models
Sustainable development -- Europe
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Fiscal policy -- Econometric models
Human services -- Finance -- Forecasting
Population -- Economic aspects
Population forecasting -- Methodology
Sustainable development
SUBJECT Europe -- Population -- Economic aspects
Subject Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Alho, Juha
Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard, 1959-
Lassila, Jukka
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