Wang, Ting; Young, Virginia R. - In: Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 51 (2012) 2, pp. 352-369
The purpose of this paper is to reveal the relation between commutability of life annuities and retirees’ willingness to annuitize. To this end, we assume the existence of commutable life annuities, whose surrender charge is a proportion of their actuarial value. We model a retiree as a...