Auf EU_Ebene werden derzeit Bestrebungen diskutiert, geschlechtsspezifisch unterschiedliche Tarife bei privaten Versicherungen zu verbieten. Wie werden solche Tarife begründet? Welche ökonomischen Folgen hat ihre Abschaffung

The authors reflect on reform options concerning the funded old age provision. Starting from the political debate on the current state of the German old age security system they sum up the critique concerning the funded old age provision especially the Riester-pension. Three reform options that...

Critics accuse so called Riester products of having excessive costs and being unprofitable due to excessive life expectancy assumptions. The author examines the validity of the criticism, highlighting the methodological limitations of the studies. Thus, due to the individually differentiated...