Aging and International Capital Flows

Axel Börsch-Supan (), Alexander Ludwig and Joachim Winter ()

No 2010, MEA discussion paper series from Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim

Abstract: Throughout the world, population aging is a major challenge that will continue well into the 21 st century. While the patterns of the demographic transition are similar in most countries, timing differs substantially, in particular between industrialized and less developed countries. To the extent that capital is internationally mobile, population aging will therefore induce capital flows between countries. In order to quantify these international capital flows, we employ a multi-country overlapping generations model and combine it with long-term demographic projections for several world regions over a 50 year horizon. Our simulations suggest that capital flows from fast-aging industrial countries (such as Germany and Italy) to the rest of the world will be substantial. Closed-economy models of pension reform are likely to miss quantitatively important effects of international capital mobility.

JEL-codes: E27 F21 G15 H55 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2002-01-21
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Working Paper: Aging and International Capital Flows (2001)
Working Paper: Aging and International Capital Flows (2002)
Working Paper: Aging and International Capital Flows (2002)
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