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Risk aspects of investment-based social security reform /

Our current social security system operates on a pay-as-you-go basis; benefits are paid almost entirely out of current revenues. As the ratio of retirees to taxpayers increases, concern about the high costs of providing benefits in a pay-as-you-go system has led economists to explore other options....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Campbell, John Y., Feldstein, Martin S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Colección:Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Asset allocation and risk allocation: can Social Security improve its future solvency problem by investing in private securities?
  • The transition to investment-based social security when portfolio returns and capital profitability are uncertain
  • The effect of pay-when-needed benefit guarantees on the impact of Social Security privatization
  • Can market and voting institutions generate optimal intergenerational risk sharing?
  • The Social Security Trust Fund, the riskless interest rate, and capital accumulation
  • Social Security and demographic uncertainty: the risk-sharing properties of alternative policies
  • The risk of Social Security benefit-rule changes: some international evidence
  • Financial engineering and Social Security reform
  • The role of real annuities and indexed bonds in an individual accounts retirement program
  • The role of international investment in a privatized social security system
  • Investing retirement wealth: a life-cycle model.