It is often argued that the tax on continued work should be removed by implementing actuarially fair schemes. However, these schemes cannot help finance the expected Social Security deficit. This paper proposes to give individuals on a fraction of the marginal actuarially fair incentives in case...

Transition to floating exchange rate regimes has led to sharp increases in nominal and real exchange rate volatilities with no corresponding changes in the distribution of fundamental macroeconomic variables. In the spirit of Dornbusch [1976], we assess whether nominal exchange rate overshooting...

The international macroeconomic literature attributes the nominal and real exchange rate volatility to two mechanisms. The first one, underlined by Betts and Devereux [1996], lays stress on the deviation from the law of one price due to Pricing-To-Market (PTM) behavior whereas the second...