for and control over the accumulation and use of savings for retirement. …

provide evidence that individuals mis-perceive their mortality risk, and study the demand for annuities in a setting where …

may either choose to receive annuity payouts, calculated based on a mortality table agreed to at contract inception, or … receive the accumulated capital as a lump sum. Considering stochastic mortality improvements, such an option could be of … substantial value. Whenever mortality improves less than originally expected, the policyholder will choose the lump sum and buy an …

the capital accumulated. Considering stochastic mortality improvements, the lump-sum option could be of potential value … for the policyholder. Whenever mortality improves less than expected at contract inception, the policyholder will choose … stochastic mortality. Our results are relevant for individual retirement planning, pension system design, and insurance pricing …

is compared with hyperbolic discounting within a standard life-cycle setting of consumption and savings. We show …

Traditionally, households have been seen as acting as a single unit when it comes to savings. Although this might be … correct for some parts of household savings, we question the correctness of the unitary model with respect to non …-mandatory retirement savings. To answer this question we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of a tax policy change on households' consumption and retirement savings behavior …, by using a unique panel data of voluntary retirement savings (PPF) and debit card spending transactions. On average, we … find that households reduce their consumption by 14% and increase their PPF savings by 16% in response to an increase in …