Jennifer Alonso-Garcia, Maria del Carmen Boado-Penas and Pierre Devolder
There are three main challenges facing public pension systems.
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2016Sep
2016Sep
Jennifer Alonso-García and Beatriz Rosado-Cebrián
The recent global financial crisis has intensified the public debate on the sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension schemes.
2016Aug
Peter McDonald
Migration is one of the three demographic processes that contribute to changes in the size of a population, the other two being fertility and mortality.
2016Aug
Ermanno Pitacco
This paper provides some introductory remarks to critical biometric aspects underlying risk identification and risk assessment for life annuity portfolios and pension funds.
2016Jul
Juergen Jung, Chung Tran and Matthew Chambers
We quantify the effects of population aging on the US healthcare system. Our analysis is based on a stochastic general equilibrium overlapping generations model of endogenous health accumulation calibrated to match pre-2010 U.S. data.
2016Jul
Shang Wu, Hazel Bateman and Ralph Stevens
Whereas there is ample evidence that life-contingent income products (life annuities) have the potential to improve individual welfare, combining them with health-contingent income products (resulting in so-called life care annuities) would serve to further increase welfare for individuals who are exposed to uncertain out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure later in life.
2016Jun
Monisankar Bishnu, Cagri S. Kumru and Arm Nakornthab
In this paper we derive the expression for optimal inheritance tax when agents' preferences are subject to temptation and self control problem.
2016May
Hazel Bateman, Isabella Dobrescu, Ben R. Newell, Andreas Ortmann and Susan Thorp
Short, standardized financial product disclosures should make comparisons easier, support better choices and reduce welfare losses. Using incentivized experiments, we investigate how and when prescribed fee and return information in standardized disclosures prompt efficient switches between retirement plans.
2016Apr
Heather Booth, Leonie Tickle and Jiaying Zhao
Mortality change in Australia since 1907 is analysed in the light of Epidemiologic Transition theory. Australia began the twentieth century in the second age of the Epidemiologic Transition, the Age of Receding Pandemics.