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"Better Safe than Sorry" - Individual Risk-free Pension Schemes in the European Union - Macroeconomic Benefits, the Mobile Working Citizen's Perspective and Why Nots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility, across country borders but also within the countries of the European Union.
A B�rsch-Supan   +22 more
core   +4 more sources

Heart-Focused Anxiety Affects Behavioral Cardiac Risk Factors and Quality of Life: A Follow-Up Study Using a Psycho-Cardiological Rehabilitation Concept

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundHeart-focused anxiety (HFA) raises the risk for adverse outcomes in patients with heart disease. Despite this great importance, it is rarely assessed in clinical practice.
Christoph Schmitz   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulating private pension funds’ structure, performance and investments: cross-country evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
A number of countries have introduced individual, privately managed defined-contribution accounts, where the value of the pension benefit will depend on accumulated contributions and investment returns.
Srinivas, P.S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Hedging and Cash Flows in the Presence of Taxes and Expenses in Life and Pension Insurance

open access: yesRisks, 2018
In investment and insurance contracts, certain stipulated payments may depend on the hedging strategy. We study the problem of calculation, hedging and valuation of such cash flows, by considering a payment process in a setup with taxes and investment ...
Kristian Buchardt, Thomas Møller
doaj   +1 more source

Life Insurance Cash Flows with Policyholder Behavior

open access: yesRisks, 2015
The problem of the valuation of life insurance payments with policyholder behavior is studied. First, a simple survival model is considered, and it is shown how cash flows without policyholder behavior can be modified to include surrender and free policy
Kristian Buchardt, Thomas Møller
doaj   +1 more source

Retirement expectations, pension reforms and their impact on private wealth accumulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of intense Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth ...
Attanasio   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Self-selection and risk sharing in a modern world of life-long annuities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Communicating a pension product well is as important as optimising the financial value. In a recent study, we showed that up to 80% of the value of a pension lump sum could be lost if customer communication failed.
Gerrard, R. J. G.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A dynamic analysis of the effect of social security reform on Spanish widow pensioners [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2011
This paper shows the dynamic effects of the reform of the Spanish social security pension system on the pensions received by one of the most vulnerable groups of the population, namely, widows.
Peinado Patricia, Serrano Felipe
doaj   +1 more source

The study of the payment regims of retirement pensions in Iran and Norway [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2022
The issue of pension payments is a serious challenge for governments in today's world. As the main institution, which is faced with a large number of new pensioners every year, governments seek to create pension systems in line with the political ...
elham amiri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: TAKING STOCK OF THE CURRENT STATE OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

open access: yesPoslovna Izvrsnost, 2019
Taking into account theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) with neoclassical and endogenous theories of economic growth, FDI has been identified as a factor which directly (capital accumulation) and indirectly (technology transfer) positively ...
Darko Horvatin
doaj   +1 more source

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