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The tragedy of annuitization
Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2010
We construct a tractable discrete-time overlapping generations model of a closed economy and use it to study government redistribution of accidental bequests and private annuities in general equilibrium. Individuals face longevity risk as there is a positive probability of passing away before...
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Annuity market imperfection, retirement and economic growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2009
-independent wages and a constant mortality rate. In the first extension we study the implications for microeconomic decisions and … realistic mortality process. Our main findings are that the limited availability of annuities induces agents to retire early in … the first two models, but later in the model with age-dependent mortality. In all cases, the general equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266022
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Economic growth and longevity risk with adverse selection
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2009
external effects. Individual agents differ in terms of their mortality profile. At birth, nature assigns a health status to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274230
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Human capital accumulation and the macroeconomy in an ageing society
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2012
How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answer this question we build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model of a closed economy featuring endogenous factor prices. Finitely-lived individuals are endowed with perfect foresight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291543
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Retirement, pensions, and ageing
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - 2007
mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time- and age profiles of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264112
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Longevity Risk under Private and Public Insurance and Asymmetric Information
Heijdra, Ben J.; Jiang, Yang; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2017
We study the impact of a fully-funded social security system in an economy with heterogeneous consumers. The unobservability of individual health conditions leads to adverse selection in the private annuity market. Introducing social security—which is immune to adverse selection—affects...
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Life in Shackles? The Quantitative Implications of Reforming the Educational Loan System
Heijdra, Ben J.; Kindermann, Fabian; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2014
In this paper we conduct a quantitative analysis of a number of stylized educational loan systems. We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model of a closed economy with a competitive firm sector and a government that levies taxes and administers educational loans. Individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420727
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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases : Amending the Retirement Age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021
expectancy uses a Bayesian Model Ensemble approach to stochastic mortality modelling to generate forecasts of intergenerationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314670
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Optimal Retirement with Disability Pensions
Fehr, Hans; Fröhlich, Adrian - 2023
This paper develops a general equilibrium life-cycle model with endogenous retirement and disability risk, in order to quantify the impact of recent pension reforms in Germany. At certain ages households may either apply for disability pensions (DP) or old-age pensions (OAP), de-pending on...
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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment
Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2021
The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price...
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