356 Emerging risks and new challenges
real interest rates could mitigate in part this eect. Unfavourable debt dynamics
combined with signicant and rising implicit public pension liabilities would
leave little room for scal policy to address adverse business cycle developments.
Moreover, a very unfavourable scal position is likely to aect nancial stability
through a decrease in the government’s ability to bail out or provide guarantees
to the banking sector or through losses on banks’ sovereign portfolios, weaken-
ing their balance sheets (Chapter 9).
What can be done? Raising labour force participation and productivity and
strengthening investment and innovation may help to mitigate the macroeco-
nomic eects of ageing. Reforms to publ ...