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stochastic mortality risk driven by jumps, unspanned labor income as well as short-sale and liquidity constraints and a simple … insurance. I compare models with deterministic and stochastic hazard rate of death to a model without mortality risk. Mortality …
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This paper investigates retirees’ optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their defined contribution (DC) plan assets and given their expected Social Security benefits. As an alternative, we also evaluate using plan assets to boost Social Security benefits...
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This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their defined contribution (DC) plan assets and given their expected Social Security benefits. As an alternative, we also evaluate using plan assets to boost Social Security benefits...
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The changing social, financial and regulatory frameworks, such as an increasingly aging society, the current low interest rate environment, as well as the implementation of Solvency II, lead to the search for new product forms for private pension provision. In order to address the various...
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more important issue that we address. In actuarial practice, the different mortality levels of the several risk classes are … obtained by applying adjustment coefficients to population mortality rates. Such a choice is not supported by a rigorous model …. On the other hand, the heterogeneity of a population with respect to mortality can formally be described with a frailty …
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Due to the increasing interest in several markets in life annuity products with a guaranteed periodic benefit, the back-side effects of some features that may prove to be critical either for the provider or the customer should be better understood. In this research, we focus on the time frames...
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We theoretically analyze how index investing affects financial markets using a dynamic exchange economy with heterogeneous investors and two Lucas trees. We identify two effects of indexing: lockstep trading of stocks increases market volatility and stock return correlations but reduction in...
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