The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey

Barry P. Bosworth (), Ralph C. Bryant and Gary Burtless
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Barry P. Bosworth: The Brookings Institution

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Abstract: All major industrial countries will experience significant population aging over the next several decades. In both academic circles and the business press it is widely believed that population aging will have important effects on financial markets because of its expected impact on saving rates and the demand for investment funds. This paper reviews the literature on the macroeconomic and asset market effects of population aging, focusing on four related issues: (a) The impact of population age structure on aggregate household saving; (b) The effect of population aging on investment demand; (c) Evidence on the influence of population age structure on financial market asset prices and returns; and (d) Effects of globalization on our interpretation of the impact of demographic change.

Keywords: aging; saving; investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-fmk and nep-mac
Date: 2004-10
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