Inefficiency in Social Security Trust Funds Forecasts
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- Kajal Lahiri & Junyan Zhang & Yongchen Zhao, 2023. "Inefficiency in social security trust funds forecasts," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(10), pages 1353-1357, June.
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Keywords
social security trust funds; long-range solvency forecasts; Nordhaus test; forecast efficiency; fixed-event forecast revisions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods
- E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- E66 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General Outlook and Conditions
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
- H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2022-01-10 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-FOR-2022-01-10 (Forecasting)
- NEP-MAC-2022-01-10 (Macroeconomics)
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