Mandatory contributions to retirement savings accounts may tighten existing borrowing constraints, forcing individuals … to forgo profitable investment options. This welfare-detrimental effect can be offset if retirement savings are allowed … combined with a pension system with unconditional basic savings …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … public pension payments. This reform did not change the level of pensions, but only provided information to individuals about … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …

How does the provision of public pension benefits impact private savings? We answer this question in the context of a …, inconsistent with the notion that future differences in pension eligibility impact savings. Second, we show large savings responses … to other savings vehicles, such as bank or stock market accounts. Additional analyses point to inertia as a leading …

mandatory retirement savings. Agents with present bias may choose to work informally to avoid the mandatory contributions and … contribution rate will actually increase their savings and welfare …

, or that they have planned to learn more about pensions but that it just hasn't happened, as reasons for why they do not …

supplementary savings needed to cover it. The issue of pension system income adequacy is first discussed, and the forecasted and … defined and the size of the gap is analyzed. The amount of savings needed to cover the pension gap is then computed. How … changes in the values of particular parameters influence the amount of monthly savings needed to cover the individual pension …

, the public pension system cannot make the happiness level higher comparing to private savings. This paper concludes that …