Seit dem Jahr 1995 existiert in Deutschland die Pflegeversicherung als eigenständige Säule der sozialen Sicherung. Vor dem Hintergrund der sich vollziehenden demografischen Entwicklung offenbart sich zunehmender Reformbedarf und es sind Lösungsansätze vonnöten, welche die Finanzierbarkeit...

We introduce a continuous time overlapping generations demographic model, in which a social planner seeks to generate an optimal policy for influencing the demographic change of the underlying population in a neoclassical growth model. The model has the notable feature that the underlying state...

In this paper we consider the implications of relative consumption externalities in the Blanchard-Yaari overlapping generations framework. Unlike most of the macroeconomic literature that studies this question, the differences between agents, and, thus, in their relative position, persist in...

The paper examines the effects of demographic change on federal, state and local governments in Germany with a focus on the expenditure side to answer the question, whether demographic change will induce vertical fiscal expenditure imbalances. We present estimates of the impact of demographic...