Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...

Die Zunahme des internationalen Handels und der internationalen Kapitalbewegungen wird oft für einen Abbau sozialstaatlicher Umverteilung verantwortlich gemacht. In dieser Arbeit wird die Frage untersucht, ob die wachsende Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft zu einer Einschränkung der...

An important decision facing retirement savers is how to allocate their savings across different assets. The decision includes the choice of how to divide investments between domestic and foreign holdings. This study uses return data for 1927-2005 to determine whether cross-border investing in...