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Saving and taxation in a voluntary pension system : toward an agent-based model
Király, Balázs; Simonovits, András - 2016
pension system, where savings are matched by government grants. Accounting for the resulting tax expenditure, our models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451322
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Are the Japanese unique? : evidence from household saving and bequest behavior
Horioka, Charles - 2016
In this paper, we attempt to shed light on whether Japanese households are rational or if their behavior is influenced by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility,...
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Progressive tax changes to superannuation in a lifecycle framework
Kudrna, George; Woodland, Alan D. - 2015
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of hypothetical replacements of existing tax arrangements applied to superannuation (Australia.s term for private pensions) with traditional EET and TEE regimes. These taxation regimes exempt pension fund earnings from any taxation and tax either...
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003260821
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The Miracle of Compound Interest : Does Our Intuition Fail?
Binswanger, Johannes - 2011
When it comes to estimating the benefits of long-term savings, many people rely on their intuition. Focusing on the … domain of retirement savings, we use a randomized experiment to explore people's intuition about how money accumulates over … time. We ask half of our sample to estimate future consumption given savings (the forward perspective). The other half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131371
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The Miracle of Compound Interest : Does Our Intuition Fail?
Binswanger, Johannes - 2010
When it comes to estimating the benefits of long-term savings, many people rely on their intuition. Focusing on the … domain of retirement savings, we use a randomized experiment to explore people's intuition about how money accumulates over … time. We ask half of our sample to estimate future consumption given savings (the forward perspective). The other half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134869
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Limited Computational Ability and Social Security
Caliendo, Frank - 2013
We revisit the role of social security in countering inadequate saving for retirement. We compute the optimal social security tax rate for households who lack the computational ability to solve dynamic optimization problems. Instead, they follow the simple rule of thumb of consuming and saving a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081922
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Budgetary Costs of Tax Facilities for Pension Savings : An Empirical Analysis
Caminada, Koen - 2009
, pension saving is taxed at a relatively low rate, although the revenue loss due to tax facilities for pension savings and … budgetary effects of a cash-flow tax regime for pension savings by full present-value calculations. The fiscal subsidy on … pension savings in several (European) countries is often associated with the application of the cash-flow treatment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157993
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Retirement and Wealth
Gustman, Alan L. - 2003
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate reduced form retirement and wealth equations. The retirement equation relates the probability of retiring to the quot;premium valuequot;, a forward looking measure of the future value of pensions and social security that better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786844
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Welfare : Savings Not Taxation
Douglas, Roger - 2017
model which features compulsory savings accounts and transparent pricing of health services. It has achieved some of the … how tax cuts can be designed to help establish compulsory savings accounts so that a publicly funded welfare system can be … like unemployment) through the establishment of a set of compulsory savings accounts. A case study of New Zealand is used …
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