Nowadays many employers offer their employees the possibility of an insurance against too large losses in income when retiring or becoming disabled. This paper models the optimization problem of the employer when setting up such a so-called pension fund. Not surprisingly, it turns out that the...

Longevity Four: The Fourth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference was held in Amsterdam on 25-26 September 2008. It was hosted by Netspar and the Pensions Institute (at Cass Business School), organised by PensionSummit and sponsored by Cardano, EIM, Nationale...

This study examines a setting in which a tax reporting decision is delegated to a firm’'s tax manager. Using financial accounting measures of tax expense to evaluate the tax manager allows the fi rm to efficiently attain the level of tax avoidance it prefers, despite the fact that the...

This paper studies how the difference between technical depreciation and tax depreciation affects the firm's optimal investment strategy. The objective is maximization of shareholder value. When tax depreciation differs from technical depreciation, an additional investment not only generates...

Nowadays many employers offer their employees the possibility of an insurance against too large losses in income when retiring or becoming disabled. This paper models the optimization problem of the employer when setting up such a so-called pension fund. Not surprisingly, it turns out that the...

In this paper we focus on robust linear optimization problems with uncertainty regions defined by [phi]-divergences (for example, chi-squared, Hellinger, Kullback-Leibler). We show how uncertainty regions based on [phi]-divergences arise in a natural way as confidence sets if the uncertain...