Population Ageing and the Macroeconomy

The Ageing Population

The process of population ageing that has been occurring in Sweden can be expected to continue during the coming decades, the population pyramid will become increasingly rectangular, and possibly even demonstrate a shrinking base. This will lead to increasing challenges in terms of financing pensions, elderly care and healthcare. These problems will continue for at least the next 30 years with ...

Globalisation and the macroeconomy

Although the topic of globalisation has received considerable attention in many circles, it remains a phenomenon that we are still striving to understand. Not only can globalisation not be captured in a single measure or index, but its economic impacts are also difficult to isolate given the complexities in disentangling globalisation from other important structural changes that have occurred i...

Oil and the Macroeconomy

Agriculture and the Macroeconomy

It is argued that from the viewpoint of efficiency, agriculture should not be taxed relative to other sectors, and neither should it be favored. Nevertheless, developing countries have traditionally taxed the agricultural sector while developed countries have protected it, and both have incurred efficiency losses. Based on Schiff and Valdes (1992), it was shown that the taxation of agriculture ...

Voting and the Macroeconomy

The people have been promised more than can be promised; they have been given hopes that it will be impossible to realize ... The expenses of the new regime will actually be heavier than the old. And in the last analysis the people will judge the revolution by this fact alone-does it take more or less money? Are they better off? Do they have more work? And is that work better paid? All Politica...