This study used a panel data set, which is including 15 OECD countries that had high income per capita for the time period of 1995-2011. Following causality and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL), paper yields: 1) respectively the largest and the smallest impacts on health expenditures are caused by public spending and the influences of Age Dependency Ratio Young (ADRY); 2) income and Age Dependency Ratio Old (ADRO) on health expenditures are positive; 3) another striking inference is that while young working population rate is increasing, health expenditure is decreasing.

This article explores the role of investment specific technology shocks for emerging market business cycle fluctuations. The analysis is motivated by two key empirical facts; the presence of investment specific technical change in the postwar US economy together with the importance of investment goods for the emerging market imports. The goal of this paper is to quantify the contribution of the investment specific technical change in the US for the business cycles of an emerging country in the context of a two country, two sector international real business cycle framework with investment and consumption goods sectors. We estimate the model for Mexico and US data and find that a permanent US originating investment specific technology shock is very important in explaining the Mexican output and investment dynamics. This shock explains around 80\% of the investment variability and it accounts for the around 45\% of the output variability. We argue that the model's ability to account for the important business cycle features of the data is dependent on the presence of shocks that capture financial frictions as well as a permanent investment specific technology shock that originates in the US.

This article explores the role of investment specific technology shocks for emerging market business cycle fluctuations. The analysis is motivated by two key empirical facts; the presence of investment specific technical change in the postwar US economy together with the importance of investment goods for the emerging market imports. The goal of this paper is to quantify the contribution of the investment specific technical change in the US for the business cycles of an emerging country in the context of a two country, two sector international real business cycle framework with investment and consumption goods sectors. We estimate the model for Mexico and US data and find that a permanent US originating investment specific technology shock is very important in explaining the Mexican output and investment dynamics. This shock explains around 80\% of the investment variability and it accounts for the around 45\% of the output variability. We argue that the model's ability to account for the important business cycle features of the data is dependent on the presence of shocks that capture financial frictions as well as a permanent investment specific technology shock that originates in the US.