Effects of age structure on investment, saving and trade

Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 163-191

  Lindh, Thomas ^a   Malmberg, Bo ^b  

^a Institute for Futures Studies Stockholm   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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