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Health Expenditures, Longevity and Growth
Dormont, Brigitte; Oliveira Martins, Joaquim; Pelgrin, … - 2015
of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of growth for the bio-tech industries and an indirect source of growth …, the paper first focuses on demographic facts, disentangling the role of longevity and carrying out some 'thought … experiments' on the indexation of active life on longevity. It then analyses the links between health care expenditures …
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Longevity and companionship in an overlapping-generations model
Gylfi Zoega; Gestsson, Marias H. - 2018
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The golden rule of longevity
Gestsson, Marias H.; Gylfi Zoega - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 23 (2019) 1, pp. 384-419
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The golden rule of longevity
Gestsson, Marias H.; Gylfi Zoega - 2017
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The effect of time to death on health care expenditures : taking into account the endogeneity and right censoring of time to death
Kolodziejczyk, Christophe - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 21 (2020) 6, pp. 945-962
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Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore : How Much is Adequate?
Chia, Ngee-Choon; Tsui, Albert K.C - 2005
While many studies have examined the cost-containment aspect of Medical savings accounts (MSA), few have investigated the adequacy of MSA to finance the health care expenditure. This paper estimates the present value of lifetime healthcare expenses (PVHE) of the Singaporean male and female...
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Save or pay-as-you-go : the effcts of ageing on optimal retirement funding
Hott, Christian - 2019
Ageing of most societies is driven by two factors: (1) birth rates are declining and (2) people are living longer … retirement. We develop an overlapping generation model in order to analyse the effects of ageing on the efficiency of retirement … old generation and that ageing makes a transfer via pay-as-you-go pension relatively more attractive. In optimum, the …
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Chapter 6. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Beetsma, R.; Romp, W. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 311-380). 2016
This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational risk sharing (IRS). We explore to what extent and how a market economy with an appropriate institutional setting can replicate a social planner's solution in models with increasing levels of complexity. In particular, we do this for...
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Medical progress, demand for health care, and economic performance
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2017
We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact...
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Death Panels and the Rhetoric of Rationing
Weeks, Elizabeth - 2015
This essay offers an explanation for the United States' continued resistance to universal health care as grounded in two taboos: taxation and rationing. Even we were willing to pay more in taxes to directly subsidize the cost of medical care for those in need, rather than our current system of...
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