A Golden Rule of Health Care
Marias H. Gestsson and
Gylfi Zoega
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Marias H. Gestsson: Department of Economics, University of Iceland
No 1412, Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance from Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics
Abstract:
We derive a golden rule for the level of health care expenditures and find that the optimal level of life-extending health care expenditures should increase with rising productivity and retirement age, while the effects of improvement in medical technology are ambiguous.
Keywords: Health care; golden rule; productivity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12
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