Nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension systems have recently become popular because they provide the strong incentives of the private funded systems without requiring a difficult transition period. Using the framework of mechanism design, these systems have theoretically been criticized...

The dependence of benefit on the retirement age (the schedule) is an important feature in any public pension system. The nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension system has recently become popular mainly because of its allegedly actuarial fairness. Using the framework of mechanism design...

The dependence of benefit on the retirement age (the schedule) is an important feature in any public pension system. The nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension system has recently become popular mainly because of its allegedly actuarial fairness. Using the framework of mechanism design...

With flexible (variable) retirement every individual determines his optimal retirement age, depending on a common benefit-retirement age schedule and his life expectancy. The government maximises the average expected lifetime utility minus a scalar multiple of the variance of the lifetime...

Este artículo es una revisión de las ideas básicas del cálculo de Malliavin relevantes para las finanzas. El cálculo de Malliavin proporciona un conjunto de herramientas matemáticas que ha permitido resolver algunos problemas de importancia práctica en las finanzas cuantitativas y que se...

The absence of self-control is often viewed as an important correlate of persistent poverty. Using a standard intertemporal allocation problem with credit constraints faced by an individual with quasi- hyperbolic preferences, we argue that poverty damages the ability to exercise self-control....

By applying robust control the decision maker wants to make good decisions when his model is only a good approximation of the true one. Such decisions are said to be robust to model misspecification. In this paper it is shown that both a “probabilistically sophisticated” and a...

Nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension systems have recently become popular because they provide the strong incentives of the private funded systems without requiring a difficult transition period. Using the framework of mechanism design, these systems have theoretically been criticized...

Economists who want to numerically approximate an elaborate dynamic stochastic programming problem (DSPP), either for structural estimation or policy evaluation purposes, are often confined by the curse of dimensionality: richer models with various state and control variables cannot be solved on...

This is a preprint of the chapter "Supercomputers" in the forthcoming book "High-Performance Computing in Finance: Problems, Methods, and Solutions", M.A.H. Dempster, J. Kanniainen, J. Keane, and E. Vynckier (Eds), Chapman and Hall/CRC, London, 2017. The chapter discusses the use of...