This paper uses stochastic simulations on calibrated models to assess the steady state impact of different pension arrangements in an environment where financial markets are less than perfect. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between funded and unfunded systems when there are...

Die Durchführung des Paradigmenwechsels in der deutschen Alterssicherungspolitik wird gemeinhin der Rot-Grünen Regierungskoalition und den von ihr initiierten Reformen der Jahre 2001 und 2004 zugeschrieben. Bei einer näheren Beschäftigung mit den Entwicklungen in der vorangegangenen...

We study numerically the inter- and intra-generational welfare consequences of alternative pension fund policies in response to unexpected demographic, financial and macro-economic shocks. Our analysis is based on an applied many-generation OLG model describing a small-open economy with...

This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension decisions in accordance with the rational behaviour assumptions underlying the pension policies they advance. We find that while economists' decisions regarding three other...