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Feldstein's rhetoric of private retirement accounts
Avşar, Rojhat Berdan - 2008
. Martin Feldstein’s pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …. -- Social Security ; individual accounts ; privatization ; ideograph ; rhetoric ; Feldstein …
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Does social security privatization produce efficiency gains?
Nishiyama, Shinichi; Smetters, Kent A. - 2005
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Junior must pay : pricing the implicit put in privatizing social security
Kōnstantinidēs, Giōrgos; Donaldson, John B.; Mehra, … - 2002
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Macroeconomic implications of switching the social security trust fund towards a greater investment in equities
Pestieau, Pierre; Possen, Uri M. - 2000
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Privatizing Public Pension Systems : Lessons for the United States from Latin America
Williamson, John B. - 2001
, Colombia, and Peru). In Latin America privatization tends to have positive economic effects. It contributes to the development … suggesting that it may increase the national savings rate and economic growth. However, privatization also leads to higher …
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Investing U.S. Social Security Trust Fund Assets in Private Securities
Leidy, Michael P. - 1997
This paper examines the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of a policy change, other things being equal, that would allow U.S. Social Security trust fund assets to be invested in private securities. Improving the expected return to trust fund assets, by shifting these from government...
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Pensions and power : the political and market dynamics of public pension plans
Kolasi, Erald - In: Review of capital as power 2 (2022) 2, pp. 46-80
This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that the metrics used to make this argument are unsound....
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Optimal fiscal policy in the design of social security reforms
Conesa, Juan Carlos (contributor);  … - 2007
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(Partial) privatization social security : the Chilean model - a lesson to follow?
Eisen, Roland - 2000
This paper examines thoroughly the Chilean Pension Reform, giving first an overview of the mandatory saving plan, the relevant institutions, and the rules for transition from the old to the new system. The main part of the paper contains a critical evaluation of the reform, in particular the...
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Pensions in transition in EU11 countries between 1990 and 2015
Domonkos, Stefan; Simonovits, András - 2016
This paper surveys the most significant problems of the pension systems of EU11 countries. These nations had to transform their old-age social security systems after replacing a state-socialist economic order with a capitalist one. Stressing common as well as specific features, our paper...
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