We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by … the retirement age fosters economic growth. How economic growth changes in response to rising life expectancy depends on … the retirement response. Employing numerical analysis we find that the requirement for experiencing a growth stimulus from …

We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by … the retirement age fosters economic growth. How economic growth changes in response to rising life expectancy depends on … the retirement response. Employing numerical analysis we find that the requirement for experiencing a growth stimulus from …

Phelpsís (1961) Golden Rule states an unambiguous relationship between optimal capital intensity and fertility: a rise … in fertility decreases the optimal capital intensity, because a higher fertility increases the investment required to … having distinct fertility behaviors. We derive the optimal accumulation rule in that framework, and we show that, unlike what …

retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined benefit scheme and compare it to a scenario …

retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined benefit scheme and compare it to a scenario …

most cited drivers; decreasing fertility, decreasing mortality, and a slowdown of technological growth. We do this through … global real interest rate. The model predicts a 2.25 percentage point decrease from 1950 until today with falling mortality … generating most of the decline. We calibrate the second country on Danish data and show how differences in mortality can help …