This paper investigates the effect of state retirement plan mandates on the supply of employer-sponsored retirement plans (ESRPs) by firms. These policies require employers to either (1) offer ESRPs to workers or (2) facilitate automatic payroll deductions that are deposited into individual...

Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on retirement savings. Our analysis of nine 401(k) plans incorporates the facts that employees frequently leave firms (often before matching contributions from their employer have...

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...

Nach einem Jahr Corona-bedingter Pause fand das FaRis & DAV-Symposium am 10. Dezember 2021 an der Technischen Hochschule Köln statt. Unter dem Titel „Aktuelle Herausforderungen an das aktuarielle und finanzielle Risikomanagement durch COVID-19 und die anhaltende Niedrigzinsphase“...