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Bassi, Matteo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2012

This paper studies the optimal fiscal treatment of addictive goods (cigarettes, drugs, fatty foods, alcohol, gambling etc.). It shows that, when agents have private information about their productivity levels and their degree of rationality, the Atkinson and Stiglitz result of optimal uniform...

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Pension Risk, Retirement Saving and Insurance

Guiso, Luigi; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009

uncertainty by increasing demand for targeted retirement saving and for insurance. Individuals facing more pension wealth risk …

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The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms

Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009

elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus allowing us to measure the expected social security wealth and to assess to …

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An Egg Today and a Chicken Tomorrow: A Model of Social Security with Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting

Bassi, Matteo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2008

Pension (2006), this paper applies this behavioral framework to retirement decisions. We propose a three-periods OLG model … with quasi-hyperbolic consumers whosave for post retirement consumption in the first period and choose their retirement age … in the second. We show that this behavioral assumption explains the observed drop in post retirement consumptiondue to …

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Winner-Picking or Cross-Subsidization? The Strategic Impact of Resource Flexibility in Business Groups

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2003

We show that in business groups with efficient internal capital markets both winner-picking and cross-subsidization may occur. Depending on the amount of internal resources, a group may either exit a market in response to increased competition, or rather channel funds to the subsidiary operating...

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Addiction and The Role of Commitment Devices

Bassi, Matteo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2010

This paper studies if external commitment devices are effectively capable of helping agents to reduce their consumption of addictive goods (alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, fatty foods etc.). The main assumption introduced in the model is that individuals are sophisticated hyperbolic discounters. The...

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Social security and entrepreneurial activity

Steinberger, Thomas - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2005

neither receiving wage income nor paying social security contributions. Social security bene- fits in retirement depend on the …

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Growth and Social Security: The Role of Human Capital

Kemnitz, Alexander; Wigger, Berthold U. - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2000

This paper studies the growth and efficiency effects of pay-as-you-go financed social security when human capital is the engine of growth. Employing a variant of the Lucas (1988) model with overlapping generations, it is shown that a properly designed unfunded social security system leads to...

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Early Retirement and Social Security: A Long Term Perspective

Conde-Ruiz, J. Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2006

We provide a long term perspective on the individual retirement behavior and on the future of retirement. In a … equilibrium with positive social security contribution rates and early retirement. While aging has opposite economic and political … effects on social security contributions, it may lead to postponing retirement -- by reducing the generosity of pension …

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Political Intergenerational Risk Sharing

D'Amato, Marcello; Galasso, Vincenzo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009

TIn a stochastic two-period OLG model, featuring an aggregate shock to the economy, ex-ante optimality requires intergenerational risk sharing. We compare the level of time-consistent intergenerational risk sharing chosen by a benevolent government and by an office-seeking politician. In our...

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