; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "On Financing Retirement, Health Care, and Long-Term Care in Japan"; ; "jannelle.ruswick@mpls.frb.org"; ; "Miyachi, Kazuaki", "McGrattan, Ellen R.", "Peralta-Alva, Adrian"; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "Aging", "Retirement", "Health care", "Taxation", "Japan"; "E62 - Fiscal Policy", "I13 - Health Insurance, Public and Private", "H51 - National Government Expenditures and Health", "H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions"; "Japan is facing the problem of how to finance retirement, health care, and long-term care expenditures as the population ages. This paper analyzes the impact of policy options intended to address this problem by employing a dynamic general equilibrium overlapping generations model, specifically parameterized to match both the macro- and microeconomic level data of Japan. We find that financing the costs of aging through gradual increases in the consumption tax rate delivers better macroeconomic performance and higher welfare for most individuals relative to other financing options, including raising social security contributions, debt financing, and a uniform increase in health care and long-term care copayments."^^; "2019-06-28"; "2019-11-07T16:19:21.036594625+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.586"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Thu Nov 7 22:35:43 2019"; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "531", "508", "599"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "586"; "Retirement", "Taxation", "Health care", "Aging", "Japan"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; "[Additional files](http://users.cla.umn.edu/~erm/data/sr586/ \"Additional files\")"^^; ; "Publication" . ; .