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Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security Programs
Baker, Michael - 2003
We explore the fiscal implications of reforms to the Canadian retirement income system by decomposing the fiscal effect of reforms into two components. The mechanical effect captures the change in the government's budget assuming no behavioral response to the reform. The second component is the...
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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems : An International Comparison
Beshears, John - 2015
What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457499
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Propagation and Smoothing of Shocks in Alternative Social Security Systems
Auerbach, Alan - 2013
Even with well-developed capital markets, there is no private market mechanism for trading between current and future generations, so a potential role for public old-age pension systems is to spread economic and demographic shocks among different generations. This paper evaluates the smoothing...
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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …
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Do Demographic Changes Affect Risk Premiums? Evidence from International Data
Ang, Andrew - 2003
century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth century for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469021
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Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds : Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK
Mayer, Colin - 2003
We compare sources of funds and investment activities of venture capital (VC) funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the … particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and pension funds in the UK. VC investment … countries; for example, bank backed VC funds in Germany and Japan are as involved in early stage finance as other funds in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469053
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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective
Stabile, Mark - 2013
This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459221
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Living Up to Expectations : Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis
Cole, Stephen J.; Martínez-García, Enrique; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, and other major advanced economies have similar levels of credibility (albeit far from full credibility); however, Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421202
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Why a Funded Pension System is Useful and Why It is Not Useful
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
Based on explicit present value calculations, the paper criticizes the view that the PAYGO system wastes economic resources. In present value terms, there is nothing to be gained from a transition to funded system even though the latter offers a permanently higher rate of return. The sum of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471177