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Demography of global aging
Bloom, David E.; Mitgang, Elizabeth; Osher, Benjamin - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
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Demography of Global Aging
Bloom, David E. - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983909
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Evolution Of Sex Gap In Life Expectancy Across High-Income Countries : Universal Patterns And Country-Specific Attributes
Vergeles, Marina - 2021
Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely … particularly high excess male mortality at young and middle ages that couldn`t be fully attributed to the smoking-related causes …. We use the Human Mortality Database to examine the patterns and time trends in male/female differences in LE across 41 …
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Three essays on the performance of earnings forecasts and forward-looking proxies for expected stock returns
Meuter, Martin - 2018
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Global Expected Business Condition and International Stock Return Predictability
Jiang, Fuwei; Jin, Fujing; Liu, Hongkui; Yu, Jiasheng - 2023
We propose a global expected business cycle condition factor (GEBC) relying on OECD leading economic indicators of 18 stock markets through Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach, and show that this index is a powerful predictor for stock returns around the globe both in- and out-of-sample....
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A general approach to recovering market expectations from futures prices with an application to crude oil
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
has implications for the estimation of economic models of energy-intensive durables, for oil price forecasting, and for …
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A general approach to recovering market expectations from futures prices with an application to crude oil
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2014
alternatives and more economically plausible. We discuss implications of our analysis for the estimation of economic models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409922
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The Ageing, Longevity and Crowding Out Effects on Private and Public Savings
Wong, Benjamin - 2010
Life-cycle theory predicts ageing exerting long-term macroeconomic impacts through the reduction of private savings. However, empirical research studying macroeconomic determinants of savings generally regard age dependency as the sole measure of ageing, but overlook longevity, which can also...
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The intimate link between income levels and life expectancy : global evidence from 213 years
Jetter, Michael; Laudage, Sabine; Stadelmann, David - 2016
Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more than 64 percent of the variation in life expectancy. The Preston curve...
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The impact of uncertainty on professional exchange rate forecasts
Beckmann, Joscha; Czudaj, Robert - 2016
This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty on both exchange rate expectations and forecast errors of professionals for … Bayesian VAR approach, we observe that effects on forecast errors of professionals turn out to be more significant compared to …
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