Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy

Zusammenfassung Analyses the effect of changing demography in the US and elsewhere on tax revenues and public programmes. Topics covered include: demographic change and the outlook for Social Security! Medicare and government spending; long-term decision making under uncertainty; early retirement in policy and practice; local community spending and demographic change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Population forecasting for fiscal planning: issues and innovations Ronald Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar; Comment Daniel McFadden; Comment James Smith; 3. Uncertainty and the design of long-run fiscal policy Alan J. Auerbach and Kevin Hassett; Comment Peter Diamond; Comment Shripad Tuljapurkar; 4. How does a community's demographic composition alter its fiscal burdens? Thomas MaCurdy and Thomas Nechyba; Comment Hilary Hoynes; Comment Robert Willis; 5. Social security, retirement incentives, and retirement behavior: an international perspective Jonathan Gruber and David Wise; Comment Axel Borsh-Supan; Comment Massimo Livi Bacci; 6. Aging, fiscal policy and social insurances: a European perspective Bernd Raffelhüschen; Comment David Weil; Comment David Weir; 7. Demographics and medical care spending: standard and non-standard effects David M. Cutler and Louise Sheiner; Comment Victor Fuchs; 8. Projecting Social Security's finances and its treatment of postwar Americans Steven Caldwell, Alla Gantman, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Thomas Johnson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Comment Nada Eissa; 9. Demographic change and public assistance expenditures Robert A. Moffitt; Comment David Card; Comment S. Philip Morgan.

Product details

• Authors: Alan J. Auerbach, Alan J. (University of California Auerbach, Alan J. Lee Auerbach
• Assisted by: Auerbach Alan J. (Editor), Alan J. Auerbach (Editor), Auerbach Alan J. (Editor), Ronald D. Lee (Editor), Lee Ronald D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521088275
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08827-5
• No. of pages: 468
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Population & demography, Public finance, Population and Demography, Public finance and taxation