Social Security trust fund portfolio diversification to include some equities reduces the equity premium by raising the safe real interest rate. This requires changes in taxes. Under the hypothesis of constant marginal returns to risky investments, trust fund diversification lowers the price of...

Abstract The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security proposed three plans for reforming Social Security. All of them would create individual accounts financed by diverting funds from the Social Security Trust Fund. One of the three Commission proposals (Model 1) would not restore...

Marktintransparenz und deren Bedeutung für die Preisbildung auf Märkten wurden in der Ökonomie lange Zeit vernachlässigt. Die für ihre Search-and-Matching-Theorie geehrten Wirtschaftswissenschaftler haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dieses Manko zu überwinden. In ihren Arbeiten zeigen...

This paper explores the general-equilibrium impact of social security portfolio diversification into private securities, either through the trust fund or private accounts. The analysis depends critically on heterogeneities in saving, production, assets, and taxes. Limited diversification weakly...