capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations … model to illustrate the channels through which demographic variables and pension system generosity interact to affect both … demographic change and pension reform. We find that the generosity of the pension system plays an important role in determining …

This paper examines two behavioral factors that diminish people's ability to value a life-time income stream or annuity … complexity, we provide the first causal evidence that increasing the complexity of the annuity choice reduces respondents …' ability to value the annuity, measured by the difference between the sell and buy values people assign to the annuity. We also …

A recent US Treasury regulation allowed deferred longevity income annuities to be included in pension plan menus as a …