This paper develops a large-scale, dynamic life-cycle model to simulate Russia's demographic and fiscal transition under favorable and unfavorable fossil-fuel price regimes. The model includes Russia, the U.S., China, India, the EU, and Japan+ (Japan plus Korea). The model predicts dramatic...

The corruption is a phenomenon with which some countries have been today grappled, especially developing nations. It has multiple causes and consequences and its range starts from an individual action (e.g. bribe) and covers all cornerstones of political and economic system and is developed....

Commissioned by the Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA), this report provides a high level comparison of the regulatory environment that impacts the financial services industry in some of the main jurisdictions based on relevant instrumental factors, responses to an online questionnaire...

Since the initiation of its economic reforms in 1978, China has undergone both a rapid development in its industrial production and a major structural change in its economy, resulting in a decline in the share of output being produced by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). These two simultaneous...

This paper deals with differences between European countries in the use of long term elderly care. We analyse whether differences between countries in the use of health care hold, even if we take into account demographic and health differences. In the use of health care we distinguish between...

Public disability benefit programs in the United States and other countries consider, as a condition for benefit eligibility, the claimant’s ability or inability to resume or find work because of a health impairment. Many countries use an applicant’s vocational factors (VFs) — age,...