This paper examines an optimal rate for the national burden to establish guidelines for fiscal reform in Japan's graying society. The paper looks at the Japanese tax and social security systems through an extended life-cycle general equilibrium simulation model. It explicitly considers the...

Using an overlapping, multigenerational, dynamic, general equilibrium model incorporating a benefit assessment of government expenditure, this paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding methods for public health insurance and nursing insurance. In addition, in regard to the...

Japan's fiscal conditions are the most severe of any industrialized nation, moreover, the aging of Japanese society will continue, and an increase in the national burden is inevitable. In part because of the view that the burden of taxes and of social security has a negative impact on the...