The majority of economies in the European Union are experiencing problems with the sustainability of pension systems that are primarily caused by unfavorable demographic trends and inadequate structure of the pension systems. This research concentrates on the New Member States of the European...

Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many countries. Such longevity gaps affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of public pension systems. However, behavioral responses to longevity and policy complicate...

This paper focuses on the empirically observed relationship between demographic change and inflation and explores the theoretical nature of the puzzling link between the two. It puts the existent disparate empirical findings in the literature into perspective by formalizing an...