Coordinator:
Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE Analyses, Munich, Germany

The Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE-based analyses (MEA) is an independent institute that was formerly a department and is now a cooperation partner of the Max Planck Society’s (MPG) Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. A hallmark of the research at MEA is the combination of macroeconomic OLG/CGE models and micro‐econometric data analysis to study life‐course decisions. MEA has developed a suite of theoretical life‐cycle models for saving and labor supply decisions, and it has built a pension simulation model, which details the effects of policy changes on old‐age income. MEA has produced many micro‐econometric analyses of retirement and saving decisions. Moreover, it has a long history of internationally comparative analyses, based on SHARE and other data sets. While MEA’s previous research has focused on pensions, retirement and saving decisions, this project will transform this machinery to analyze decisions relating to LTC. Its director and BB-Future’s Principal Investigator Axel Börsch‐Supan is one of the leading experts in the field of the economics of ageing. The team has three post-doctoral fellows: Johannes Rausch (social insurance), and Donghoon Koo and Johannes Huber (heterogeneous-agent models of overlapping generations).

Dauphine, Paris, France

Elsa Perdrix (PhD in Economics, Paris School of Economics and Paris 1) is associate professor at Dauphine University. She previously worked at the MEA. Her research are on the impact of public policies on health and long term care responsibilities of the elderly. She works on the role of pension reforms on health and long term care arrangement, on substitution between formal and informal care, and on projection of future needs for care. She will add her experience as a researcher on microsimulation of LTC needs (Ben Jelloul et al. 2022) and on the mix between formal and informal care (Perdrix & Roquebert, 2021). 

UC3M, Madrid, Spain

Matthias Kredler (Ph.D. in Economics, New York University) is Associate Professor at UC3M. He also spent one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has received the Spanish Ramón-y-Cajal grant in 2018. His interests lie in Macroeconomics, family economics, and labour markets. His research has been published in journals such as The Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Review of Economic Dynamics, Quantitative Economics and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 

Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium

Bruegel is a Brussels-based European think tank specializing in economics, recognized worldwide for its high reputation for research excellence and policy recommendations expertise, as well as for its success in making an impact on the policy debate. Bruegel will lead WP2 “Policy scenarios” and WP7 “Policy recommendations”.

Bruegel has extensive experience in policy advice and recommendations development. Having a successful track record of high-level events and solid base of high-ranking contact among relevant stakeholders, including different DGs of the European Commission, Bruegel is perfectly positioned to generate impact in the policy discussion. Svend E. Hougaard Jensen (a professor of economics at Copenhagen Business School and director of the Copenhagen-based Pension Research Centre (PeRCent)), has extensive experience in collaboration with public and private stakeholders. He is also a member of the Systemic Risk Council in Denmark, and he has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission, and other government agencies. He will be supported by David Pinkus.

McGill, Montreal, Canada

Daniel Barczyk received his Phd.D. in Economics at New York University in 2011. Currently he is Associate Professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a research fellow at the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie (CIREQ).  His research interests lie in macroeconomics with a focus on public policies and their interactions with family-level decision-making. A focal point of his research has been to study the effects of long-term care policy reform and intergenerational transfers on household savings and government budgets. His research has been published in journals such as The Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Review of Economic Dynamics, Quantitative Economics and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

The Max Planck Societies’ Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

The Max Planck Society (MPG) is Germany’s premier, non-university research organization dedicated to fundamental research at 84 Max Planck Institutes. The Max Planck Society conducts basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities. With its 84 Max Planck Institutes and facilities, it is the international flagship for German science and has 31 Nobel laureates in its ranks. The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (MPISOC) specializes in the interactions between law and economics in social policy. MEA was a department of MPISOC until the emeritation of its director, Axel Börsch-Supan, who remains director emeritus at MPISOC. MPISOC coordinated SHARE as the EU’s largest socio-economic research infrastructure with Axel Börsch‐Supan as Founder and Managing Director of the SHARE-ERIC until the end of 2024. The team at MPISOCincludes Thorsten Kneip (empirical sociology of the family, econometrics) and administrative support.