This study analyzes portfolio recommendations of financial experts, finding significant differences in portfoliostructure depending on the experts' institutional background. The recommendationsystem from a survey of 250 financial experts from banks, insurance companies, investment funds and...

Im langfristigen Zeithorizont der kapitalgedeckten Altersvorsorge kommt Kostenunterschieden zwischen verschiedenen Anlageformen große Bedeutung zu. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde das Kostenniveau von Rentenversicherungen und Investmentsparplänen, deren Guthaben bei Fälligkeit in eine...

Financial literacy affects wealth accumulation, and pension planning plays a key role in this relationship. In a large field experiment, we employ a digital pension aggregation tool to confront a treatment group with a simplified overview of their current pension claims across all pillars of the...

How to invest and decumulate wealth during retirement has far-reaching consequences for consumption during retirement. We conduct an online experiment among 2,500 individuals representative of the adult German population. First, we investigate the choice between phased withdrawal plans with...

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...