This report presents the country fiches for each Member State on the pension projection - being the largest public expenditure item covered by the projection exercise released in the 2009 Ageing Report - prepared by the AWG members and by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial...

This paper investigates the differences between directly and indirectly seasonally adjusted aggregates. This difference is derived analytically for linear seasonal adjustment methods. GDP data for five European countries and three classes of seasonal adjustment methods are used to show...

Preparations are underway to revise national accounting to implement actuarial recording of pension liabilities for corporations and government as an employer. This paper extends this to unfunded public pensions with the help of "implicit tax" in pension contributions. The clearest advantages of...