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When entering retirement most people face the decision whether they would like their defined contribution account …
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illiquid capital, complementing public retirement provision, reducing the interest-rate sensitivity of pensions and smoothing …Private pension provision faces the challenging task of providing stable income streams during retirement. The … these developments, policyholders desire pensions tailored to their individual needs. This paper proposes a new type of …
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This paper uses stochastic simulations on calibrated models to assess the optimal degree of reliance on funded pensions … importance of PAYG pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate of return and …
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of unfunded state pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded state pensions depends on rate of … is rapid and unfunded pensions are currently generous. …
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In an analysis of the risk-sharing properties of different types of pension systems, we show that only fixed-fee pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems can provide risk sharing for living individuals. Under some circumstances, however, other PAYG pension systems can enhance the expected welfare of...
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We explore voluntary participation in pension arrangements. Individuals only participate when participation is more attractive than autarky. The benefit of participation is that risks can be shared with future generations. We apply our analysis to a pay-as-you-go system, a funded system without...
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This Paper analyses the general equilibrium implications of reforming pay-as-you-go pension systems in an economy with heterogeneous agents, human capital investment and capital-skill complementarity. It shows that increasing funding in the long-run delivers higher physical and human capital and...
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also allows us to evaluate the political support for raising the retirement age and to determine how the timing of the …
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endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions of this member. In Germany, this equals about 175,000 Deutsche …
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The empirical evidence on rational inattention lags far behind the theoretical developments: micro evidence on the most immediate consequence of observation costs - the infrequent observation of state variables - is not available in standard datasets. We contribute to filling the gap with two...
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