The Future of Pension Plans in the EU Internal Market : Coping with Trade-Offs Between Social Rights and Capital Markets

Introduction -- Part I -- Pay-as-you-go Versus Funded Pension Plans: Which Way to Better Address Common Challenges in the EU? -- Old-Age Pension Systems: Characterization and Comparability -- What’s New in the Debate About Pay-as-you-go Versus Funded Pensions? -- The Role of the Government in Creating or Enhancing the Access to Funded or Unfunded Pensions in the Modern Welfare State -- The Coverage of Occupational and Personal Pension Plans -- Sustainability and Adequacy of Pension Systems Across the OECD: Shocks, Robustness and Policies -- Part II -- The Capital Markets Union (CMU) and the Future of Pension Plans: Opportunities, Risks and Drawbacks -- The Capital Markets Union: Saving for Retirement and Investing for Growth -- Sustainable Pensions for European Citizens: How to Close the Gap? -- Welfare Gains from a Capital Market Union with Capital-Funded Pensions -- SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution -- The Pan-European Pension Product and the Capital Markets Union: A Way to Enhance and Complete the Economic and Monetary Union? -- The Final PEPP or How to Kill an Important EU Commission Proposal -- Deepening Financialization Within the EU: Consequences for Pension Regimes -- Part III -- Pension Plans and the European Pillar of Social Rights: A New Scope for the EU Social Policy? -- Pensions at a Crossroad Between Social Rights and Financial Markets: Which Way to Be Chosen? -- From Paris to Lisbon: The Ever-Changing European Social Policy Landscape -- Pension Reforms After the Crisis: Bringing Adequacy Back in the Domestic and EU Policy Equation? -- How to Best Address Pension Adequacy and Financial Sustainability in the Context of Population Ageing: The Labour Market as a Key Determinant -- Pensions in the Fluid EU Society: Challenges for (Migrant) Workers