Aging, pension reform, and capital flows: A multi-country simulation model

Axel Boersch-Supan and Alexander Ludwig

No 123, Computing in Economics and Finance 2005 from Society for Computational Economics

Abstract: We present a quantitative analysis of the effects of population aging and pension reform on international capital markets. First, demographic change alters the time path of aggregate savings within each country. Second, this process may be amplified when a pension reform shifts old-age provision towards more pre-funding. Third, while the patterns of population aging are similar in most countries, timing and initial conditions differ substantially. Hence, to the extent that capital is internationally mobile, population aging will induce capital flows between countries. All three effects influence the rate of return to capital and interact with the demand for capital in production and with labor supply. In order to quantify these effects, we develop a computational general equilibrium model. We feed this multi-country overlapping generations model with detailed long-term demographic projections for seven world regions. Our simulations indicate that capital flows from fast-aging regions to the rest of the world will initially be substantial but that trends are reversed when households decumulate savings. We also conclude that closed-economy models of pension reform miss quantitatively important effects of international capital mobility

Keywords: aging; pension reform; capital mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E27 F21 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-11-11
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Journal Article: Ageing, Pension Reform and Capital Flows: A Multi‐Country Simulation Model (2006)
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Working Paper: Aging, Pension Reform, and Capital Flows: A Multi-Country Simulation Model (2004)
Working Paper: Aging, pension reform, and capital flows: A multi-country simulation model (2003)
Working Paper: Aging, pension reform and capital flows: a multi-country simulation model (2002)
Working Paper: Aging, pension reform, and capital flows: a multi-country simulation model (2001)
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