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Title	The impact of structural pension reforms on the macroeconomic performance: an empirical analysis
Authors	Theophilopoulou, A.
Abstract	Whether pension reforms lead to an improvement in macroeconomic performance is a controversial question. Some countries, which have implemented reforms, claim better economic performance while in others a positive result has yet to be seen. This paper explores two aspects of this issue further: Firstly, we provide a comprehensive investigation of the impact of pension reforms on output, capital stock and consumption. Secondly, we attempt to uncover the factors which lead to cross country heterogeneity in the impact of reform. Our results suggest that pension reform led to an improvement in macroeconomic performance. However, there is also evidence to suggest that this improvement was more pronounced in countries with lower public debt, lower age dependency ratio, more developed financial markets and a higher rate of privatisations.
Journal	Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics & Finance
Journal citation	0806
ISSN	1745-8587
Year	Sep 2008
Publisher	Birkbeck, University of London (publisher)
Web address (URL)	http://www.ems.bbk.ac.uk/research/wp/2008/0806
Published	Sep 2008

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