During recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the explanatory power of demographic variables in economic growth regressions. We estimate a new model of the effects of age structure change on economic growth. We use the new model and recent probabilistic demographic projections...

We characterize the relationship between the rent-to-price ratio and house market returns and rent growth in a model where the demographic variable, the middleaged to young ratio, captures the slowly evolving components in the rent-to-price ratio. To document the linkage between demographics and...

The future development of population size and structure is of importance since planning in many areas of politics and business is conducted based on expectations about the future makeup of the population. Countries with both decreasing mortality and low fertility rates, which is the case for...