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This paper studies the impact of recent changes in second pension pillars of three Central and Eastern European Countries. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: i) what is the impact on the sustainability of Poland’s pension system of the decrease in the pension contribution going...
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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing assets are complementary to stocks, then investors … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing … substitutes consumption will be temporarily reduced. …
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The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility should reduce the inherited … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …
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This paper provides a quantitative analysis of hypothetical replacements of existing tax arrangements applied to superannuation (Australia's term for private pensions) with traditional EET and TEE regimes. These taxation regimes exempt pension fund earnings from any taxation and tax either...
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This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contri-bution pension contracts. We consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate welfare, as measured by equiva- lent variations....
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futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline policy scenario of health care access, the calibrated model predicts …, longevity and welfare. These losses are greatest in the long run due to reduced incentives for medical R&D. For example …
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We study the short-, medium-, and long-run implications of stimulating annuity markets in a dynamic general-equilibrium overlapping-generations model. We find that beneficial partial-equilibrium effects of stimulating annuity markets are counteracted by negative general-equilibrium...
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idiosyncratic income, disability and longevity risk as well as endogenous labor supply at the intensive and extensive margin …
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İmrohoroğlu, İmrohoroğlu and Joines [1995, A life-cycle analysis of Social Security, Economic Theory, vol. 6, 83-114] show that the optimal replacement ratio of the pay-as-you-go public pension system in the US economy amounts to 30%. We extend their analysis to a model that 1) replicates...
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