population aging. The paper's main focus is on the influence of institutional arrangements such as government regulations and … subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process …

Population aging and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital markets. First, demographic … reform shifts old-age provision towards more pre-funding. Third, while the patterns of population aging are similar in most …, population aging will induce capital flows between countries. All three effects influence the rate of return to capital and …

This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological … demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging many times may lower the demand for market care by increasing the supply … of family-provided care, which substitutes for market care. By providing healthy spouses, aging may increase the supply …