Background
Okamoto, Akira was born on November 19, 1964 in Sakurai, Nara, Japan. Son of Ken-ichi and Yuiko Okamoto.
(The Japanese population is aging faster than any other in...)
The Japanese population is aging faster than any other in the world. The per centage of Japan's population aged 65 and above was only 7.1% in 1970,but just 30 years later, in 2000, it reached 17.2%. A declining birth rate and a rising average life expectancy will continue to push this trend further. This situation is causing serious problems for Japanese society.Structural reforms, especially tax and social security reforms, to accommodate this drastic demographic change have become an urgent policy issue. The purpose of this book is to establish guidelines for tax and social security reforms in Japan in terms that are both efficient and equitable. In this study, an extended life-cycle general equilibrium model is employed to rigorously take account of the rapidly aging Japanese population. The simulation approach adopted in our analysis permits us to calculate the effects of alternative policy packages on capital accumulation and economic welfare. This enables us to make proposals for concrete economic policies.
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Okamoto, Akira was born on November 19, 1964 in Sakurai, Nara, Japan. Son of Ken-ichi and Yuiko Okamoto.
Bachelor in Economic, Kyoto University, Japan, 1989. Master of Arts in Economic, Kyoto University, Japan, 1995. Doctor of Philosophy in Economic, Kyoto University, Japan, 2004.
Chief Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., Osaka, Japan, 1989—1992. From lecturer to associate professor faculty economics Okayama University, Japan, 1997—2007, professor faculty economics, since 2007. Member International Research Project on Aging Hosei Institute on Aging Hosei University, Tokyo, 2003—2008, Economic and Science Research Institute International Collaboration Projects, Tokyo, 2006—2007.
(The Japanese population is aging faster than any other in...)
Member of Japan Fiscal Science Association (director since 2008).