This paper documents the lifetime costs on individual accounts and investment plans for a typical worker in Iceland using typical wage profiles and information on current charges obtained from the providers. The charge ratios calculated imply that costs at a current cost basis on individual...

Globalization is much debated, but is it possible to make reliable ranks of which countries are the most integrated internationally? Traditionally resort is taken to trade measures, but even considering only economic integration this measure disregards a number of aspects. This paper proposes a...