Buchner, Florian; Wasem, Jürgen - In: The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and … 31 (2006) 4, pp. 581-599
If health care expenditure for the elderly grows faster than for younger people, the expenditure profiles become “steeper” – we call that “steeping”. Three instruments for measuring “steeping” are presented: (1) trend of the relation between per capita expenditure of the old and...