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The impact of individual investment behavior for retirement welfare: evidence from the United States and Germany
Post, Thomas; Gründl, Helmut; Schmit, Joan; Zimmer, Anja - 2008
Much of the industrialized world is undergoing a significant demographic shift, placing strain on public pension systems. Policymakers are responding with pension system reforms that put more weight on privately managed retirement funds. One concern with these changes is the effect on individual...
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Fixed and variable longevity annuities in defined contribution plans : optimal retirement portfolios taking social security into account
Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2023
This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their … annuities in DC accounts is welfare enhancing for all sex/education groups examined. We also show that providing access to well …-designed variable deferred annuities with some equity exposure further enhances retiree wellbeing, compared to having access only to …
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Behavioral Aspects of Household Portfolio Choice : Effects of Loss Aversion on Life Insurance Uptake and Savings
Hwang, In Do - 2017
This paper investigates how loss-aversion affects individuals' decisions on savings and insurance purchase. Specifically, this paper empirically tests if prospect theory's loss aversion decreases insurance demand and increases savings demand. Prospect theory predicts that boundedly rational...
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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance: Evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance : evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966524
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Saving rates and portfolio choice with subsistence consumption
Achury, Carolina; Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos - 2011
We analytically show that a common across rich/poor individuals Stone-Geary utility function with subsistence consumption in the context of a simple two-asset portfolio-choice model is capable of qualitatively and quantitatively explaining: (i) the higher saving rates of the rich, (ii) the...
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Asset Market Participation and Portfolio Choice Over the Life-Cycle
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
Using error-free data on life-cycle portfolio allocations of a large sample of Norwegian households, we document a double adjustment as households age: a rebalancing of the portfolio composition away from stocks as they approach retirement and stock market exit after retirement. When...
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Subjective Life Horizon and Portfolio Choice
Spaenjers, Christophe - 2016
Using data from a U.S. household survey, we examine the empirical relation between subjective life horizon (i.e., the self-reported expectation of remaining life span) and portfolio choice. We find that equity portfolio shares are higher for investors with longer horizons, controlling for...
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Life-Cycle Asset Allocation with Ambiguity Aversion and Learning
Peijnenburg, Kim - 2016
Ambiguity and learning about the equity premium can simultaneously explain the low fraction of financial wealth allocated to stocks over the life cycle and the stock market participation puzzle. Individuals are ambiguous about the size of the equity premium and are averse to this ambiguity,...
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Naïve Buying Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors
Gathergood, John - 2020
We provide the first tests to distinguish whether individual investors equally balance their overall portfolios (naïve portfolio diversification—NPD) or engage in naïve buying diversification (NBD)—equally balancing values in same-day purchases of multiple assets. We find NBD in purchases...
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