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Does Stock Market Performance Influence Retirement Intentions?

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2010

Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due … to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship … between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent crisis. While …

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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008

As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity epidemic. Obesity is associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that an increase in the incidence of a disease will increase technological...

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Social Security as a Financial Asset : Gender-Specific Risks and Returns

Baxter, Marianne - 2001

situation, the individual would benefit from a reformed Social Security system that would permit investment of retirement funds …

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Asset Location for Retirement Savers

Poterba, James M. - 2000

over the 1962-1998 period to compare two asset location strategies for retirement savers. The first strategy gives priority …

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Pension Funding, Pension Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance : Evidence From Individual Company Data

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1982

This paper examines the relationship between U.S. corporations' management of their pension plans and their management of the more familiar aspects of corporate financial structure. The chief conclusion, on the basis of data for 7,828 pension plans sponsored by 1,836 companies and their...

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The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows

Poterba, James - 2007

change on the stock of assets in retirement plans. Information on demography-linked changes in asset demand is a critical …

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Portfolio Allocation for Public Pension Funds

Pennacchi, George - 2010

This paper presents a dynamic model of a public pension fund's choice of portfolio risk. Optimal portfolio allocations are derived when pension fund management maximize the utility of wealth of a representative taxpayer or when pension fund management maximize their own utility of compensation....

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