Horneff, Wolfram J.; Maurer, Raimond H.; Stamos, Michael Z. - 2007
how much he consumes and how much he invests in stocks, bonds, and annuities. Pricing the annuities we account for … asymmetric mortality beliefs and administration expenses. We show that the retiree does not purchase annuities only once but … annuities only once and has to perform a (complete or partial) switching strategy. This restriction reduces both the utility and …