Demographic forecasts and fiscal policy rules

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1098-1109

  Lassila, Jukka ^a   Valkonen, Tarmo ^a   Alho, Juha M ^b  

^a Elinkeinoelaman Tutkimuslaitos   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Changing demographic forecasts; Fiscal sustainability; Public finance; Stochastic population simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908210644     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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