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The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010 : evidence from longitudinal, disease-level data
Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Pettersson, Billie - 2012
We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is estimated to have increased mean age at death by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571756
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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019
that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124855
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Should we subsidize longevity?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831970
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Morbidity, mortality, health expenditures and annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki (contributor); Zhang, Jie (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598833
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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime
Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This Version: February 2017
growth. We identify the moral-hazard effect in healthcare investments when annuity rates are conditioned on average mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611936
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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … relatively strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375378
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Biased survival expectations and behaviours : does domain specific information matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
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Variable selection and inference for multi-period forecasting problems
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Pick, Andreas; Timmermann, Allan - 2009
direct forecasts when estimation error is a first-order concern, i.e. in small samples and for long forecast horizons …
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Forecasting random walks under drift instability
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); Pick, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711763
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Cointegration analysis with mixed-frequency data
Seong, Byeongchan (contributor); Ahn, Sung K. (contributor);  … - 2007
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