The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper …

This paper focuses on the nexus between pension funds' balance sheet liabilities, reflecting their age profile and … regulatory framework and the highly fragmented and heterogeneous pension fund landscape in Switzerland. Detailed data from the … Swiss Pension Statistic are analyzed using multivariate OLS-regressions. The evidence shows that a younger age structure and …

This paper analyzes the economic rationale for adopting parametric pension reforms and reforms broadening the coverage … of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement …

This paper explores how privatizing a pension system can affect sovereign credit risk. For this purpose, it analyzes … the importance that rating agencies give to implicit pension debt (IPD) in their assessments of sovereign creditworthiness …. However, by channeling pension contributions away from the government and creating a deficit of resources to cover the current …

The paper explores the macroeconomic effects of three public pension reforms, namely an increase in retirement age, a … Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), we find that public pension reforms can have a positive effect on growth in both the short …

utilised solely within the State Pension, rather than allocated in favour of any particular employment sector. The vision is … contribution (DC)-based.An essential pre-requisite to reforming public sector pensions is to raise the basic State Pension above …