Title: Social security reform : financial and political issues in international perspective
Abstract: Preface Contributors Introduction Robin Brooks and Assaf Razin Part I. Aging Populations and the Need for Social Security Reform: 1. The joint Japanese, EU, and US demographic transitions - the roles of capital flows, immigration, and policy Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch and Laurence Kotlikoff 2. Will Social Security and Medicare remain viable as the US population is aging? An update Henning Bohn Part II. Undersaving as a Rationale for Mandatory Social Security Programs: 3. Self-control and saving for retirement David Laibson, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman Part III. Investing Public Pensions in the Stock Market: 4. Social Security investment in equities Peter Diamond and John Geanakoplos 5. Investing public pensions in the stock market: implications for risk sharing, capital formation, and public policy in the developed and developing world Deborah Lucas 6. The risk-sharing implications of alternative social security arrangements Kjetil Storesletten, Chris Telmer, and Amir Yaron Part IV. Financial Markets and Social Security Reform: 7. Asset market effects of the baby boom and Social Security reform Robin Brooks 8. Demographic structure and asset returns James Poterba 9. Will bequests attenuate the predicted meltdown in stock prices when baby boomers retire? Andrew Abel Part V. Political Economy Aspects of Social Security Reform: 10. Aging and the private versus public pension controversy: a political-economy perspective Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka 11. How would you like to reform your pension system? The opinions of German and Italian citizens Tito Boeri, Axel-Boersch-Supan, and Guido Tabellini Index.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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