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Abstract In many low‐ and middle‐income countries, social insurance provides basic pension benefits with limited cover for illness and care costs, while private insurance markets are underdeveloped. Using an online survey of retirement portfolio choices in urban China, we examined the stated demand for longevity, critical illness, and long‐term care ...
Cheng Wan +3 more
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Design and pricing of private long‐term care insurance: An Australian analysis
Abstract Private long‐term care insurance (LTCI) is unavailable in many countries, including Australia, where individuals rely on government support and retirement savings for aged care. This study explores the design and pricing of private LTCI products covering out‐of‐pocket costs, using a model of chronic illness and disability in Australia.
Kyu Park, Michael Sherris
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Social welfare effects of annuitization in small open economies
Abstract This paper develops a theory of when annuitization improves or reduces social welfare. The analysis is based on a small open economy with exogenous prices, populated by overlapping generations of non‐altruistic agents. Annuities provide longevity risk insurance and above‐market returns, but also reduce accidental bequests that transfer ...
Tim D. Maurer
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Abstract In pharmaceutical industries, continuous manufacturing methods have already been well established to improve productivity and process intensification. However, to better understand the trade‐offs of continuous crystallizers over the existing batch production systems, a robust technoeconomic cost and sustainability analysis is necessary to ...
Jungsoo Rhim, Zoltan K. Nagy
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How Spending Evolves in Retirement: A Smile, a Smirk, or Something Else?
ABSTRACT Research indicates that inflation‐adjusted (real) retiree spending tends to decrease over time, challenging the common assumption that expenses rise in line with inflation throughout retirement. This piece examines actual changes in retiree spending leveraging data from the Health and Retirement Study.
David Blanchett
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The Quality of Clarity: Lessons from the Sixty‐Year Struggle to Maintain the Purity of Lake Taupō
Sixty years of effort to protect the exceptionally clear water of Lake Taupō, the largest lake in Aotearoa New Zealand, show how environmental memory can help manage a cultural and natural resource. I describe how water clarity and quality in this lake have been protected, through managing soil erosion and phosphorus flows during the 1960s–1980s, and ...
Jonathan West
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Hampered Monetary Policy Transmission ‐ A Supply‐Side Story?
Abstract This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for hampered monetary policy transmission in monopolistic banking markets. Our stress test data containing projected interest rates of all 1,555 small and medium‐sized banks in Germany under two hypothetical scenarios provide a clear way to partial out demand shocks that are ...
LOTTA HECKMANN‐DRAISBACH, JULIA HARDT
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Redefining the role of the transfusion medicine physician in the era of advanced cellular therapies
Transfusion, EarlyView.
Eric A. Gehrie, Kevin J. Land
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Pension levels of chinese institutions during the transition period: A case study of universities. [PDF]
Lu XJ, Zhuang QX.
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