Rocco Aprile and Aurelio Sidoti present the forecasting model developed by the Italian Ministry of Treasury in order to evaluate the long-term prospects of the pension system. The model is characterised by the effort to consider in detail the legal and institutional framework. In particular, it...

This paper is about the impact of aging on health and long term care and contains a description of the recent projections of medium/long term trends in Italy for the expenditure in the health sector. After identifying different groups of expenditure drivers, the author concentrates on the...