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Future Prospects for Notional Defined Contribution Schemes
Williamson, John B. - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 19-24
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Europe: Is There an Aging Crisis or is it a Public Pension Problem?
Disney, Richard - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 25-30
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After Another Decade of Reform: Do Pension Systems in Europe Converge?
Werding, Martin - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 1, pp. 11-16
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Assessing Old-age Pension Benefits: The Rules Applied In Different Countries
Werding, Martin - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 55-63
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Empirical risk factors in realized stock returns
Novák, Jiří; Petr, Dalibor - 2009
Measuring risk in the stock market context is one of the key challenges of modern finance. Despite of the substantial significance of the topic to investors and market regulators, there is a controversy over what risk factors should be used to price the assets or to determine the cost of...
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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
de Vries, Jacob J.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the distance-decay function. It appears that neither an...
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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
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Social security privatization and financial market risk : lessons from US financial history
Burtless, Gary - 2000
hypothetical pensions U.S. workers would have obtained between 1911 and 1999 if they had accumulated retirement savings in … with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better … present in certain types of public retirement system, but a public system has one important advantage over private pensions …
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Ethical vs. non-ethical - is there a difference? Analyzing performance of ethical and non-ethical investment fund
Lundberg, Linnéa; Novák, Jiří; Vikman, Maria - 2009
Ethical investments have become increasingly popular over the past years. Ethical funds restrict their investment based on environmental, social and/or ethical criteria. Prior research on the performance of ethical versus non-ethical funds yields mixed results. This paper investigates the...
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Prudential regulation, the "credit crunch" and the ineffectiveness of monetary policy: Evidence from Japan
Watanabe, Wako - 2004
The underlying causes of sharp declines in bank lending during recessions in large developed economies, as exemplified by the U.S. in the early 1990s and Japan in the late 1990s, are still being debated due to a lack of any convincing identification strategy of the supply side capital-lending...
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