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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas; Rangel, Antonio - 2021
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea - 2011
We examine financial literacy in Germany using data from the SAVE survey. We find that knowledge of basic financial concepts is lacking among women, the less educated, and those living in East Germany. In particular, those with low education and low income in East Germany have little financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123985
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Riester Pensions in Germany : Design, Dynamics, Targetting Success and Crowding-In
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2012
Riester pensions are voluntary, but heavily subsidized private pension schemes in Germany. They were designed as a matching defined contribution scheme to fill the emerging "pension gap" that is being generated by the gradually declining generosity of the public pay-as-you-go pensions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107222
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Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?
Dolls, Mathias - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982037
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Universal Banking and the Performance of German Firms
Gorton, Gary B. - 2011
representatives on corporate boards. If a banking relationship is a substitute for the stock market, then interaction with a bank … monopolistic control over access to external capital markets, then bank interests may conflict with those of other equityholders … structure of the firms' equity. We test for conflicts-of-interest in bank behavior and ask whether the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124511
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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks
Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2021
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …
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When a Nudge Isn't Enough : Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers
Bronchetti, Erin Todd - 2011
Recent evidence suggests that the default options implicit in economic choices (e.g., 401(k) savings by white-collar workers) have extraordinarily large effects on decision-making. This study presents a field experiment that evaluates the effect of defaults on savings among a highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128272
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Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
Curtis, Chadwick - 2011
This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We undertake a quantitative investigation using an overlapping generations (OLG) model where agents live for 85 years. Consumers begin to exercise decision making when they are 18....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129127
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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan - 2011
Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130254
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Why are Saving Rates so High in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130270