Pension economics has traditionally guided pension policy with the help of formal models based on individuals who think in a life cycle context with perfect foresight, full information, and in a time-consistent manner. This paper sheds light on selected aspects of pension economics when these...

Governments are responding to fiscal pressures associated with aging populations by increasing the eligibility age for publicly-funded retirement benefits. However, recent studies show large resulting increases in the receipt of alternative payments, which raises concern that welfare savings are...

Die drei hessischen Landtagsabgeordneten Al-Wazir (Grüne), Grüttner und Schäfer (CDU) schlagen eine obligatorische kapitalgedeckte Zusatzversorgung für jedermann vor. Was gut gemeint klingt, weist aber eine ganze Reihe von Schwachstellen auf.

The theme of this dissertation is to investigate how financial risks can be allocated in a multi-agent and multi-period setting under the economic principle of “Pareto efficiency and financial fairness” (PEFF). The dissertation is a combination of theory and practice and consists of three...

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...

Governments are responding to fiscal pressures associated with aging populations by increasing the eligibility age for publicly-funded retirement benefits. However, recent studies show large resulting increases in the receipt of alternative payments, which raises concern that welfare savings are...

Gegen eine verpflichtende private Altersvorsorge spricht, dass die gesetzliche Versorgungslücke bereits durch eine längere Lebensarbeitszeit schrumpft. Außerdem fehlt ein belastbarer Befund, dass die Deutschen allgemein zu wenig vorsorgen. Aber ausgerechnet jenen Menschen, die nicht sparen...

Die Europäische Zentralbank hat erstmals in der europäischen Geschichte den Leitzins auf null Prozent gesenkt. Diese überraschende Entscheidung wurde am 10.03.2016 in den Medien verbreitet. Der Report wurde verfasst vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Diskussion um die Niedrigzinsphase und den...