Arbeitspapier

Medical care within an OLG economy with realistic demography

We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age-specific individual demand for health care based on the value of life as well as the resulting aggregate demand for health care across the population. We then characterize the general equilibrium allocation of this economy, providing both an analytical and a numerical representation. We study the allocational impact of a medical innovation both in the presence and absence of anticipation; and a temporary baby boom. We place particular emphasis on disentangling general equilibrium from partial equilibrium impacts and identifying the relevant transmission channels.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ECON WPS ; No. 02/2016

Classification
Wirtschaft
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Health Behavior
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Value of Life; Forgone Income
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Subject
demographic change
life-cycle model
health care
health policy
medical change
overlapping generations
value of life

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Frankovic, Ivan
Kuhn, Michael
Wrzaczek, Stefan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics
(where)
Vienna
(when)
2016

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Frankovic, Ivan
  • Kuhn, Michael
  • Wrzaczek, Stefan
  • Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics

Time of origin

  • 2016

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