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Fundamentals of Private Pensions

The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1982
John H. Thornton, Dan M. McGill
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Betting on a long life: The role of subjective life expectancy in the demand for private pension insurance of german households [PDF]

With a view to investigating the presence of adverse selection, we analyze determinants of private pension insurance uptake of German households in a probit model.
Schulte, Katharina, Zirpel, Ulrike
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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The structure, regulation, and performance of pension funds in nine industrial countries [PDF]

The author offers an overview of issues relating to the development of funded pension schemes in industrial countries. The analysis applies the economic theory of pension regulation to experience with the structure, regulation, and performance of funds ...
Davis, E.P., DEC
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The Weaponization of ESG Infrastructures and the Future of Green Finance

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The trillion‐dollar green finance industry faces growing pushbacks from a range of actors. While criticisms vary—from portraying ESG as part of a “woke” agenda to highlighting risks of greenwashing—we now see mass departures from climate–finance initiatives, with asset managers coming under fire from regulators over ESG policies and activist ...
Annika Stenström
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Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [PDF]

This paper examines the economic rationale for, historical experience of, and current pressures facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
Jeffrey R. Brown
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Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
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Financial performance of the Czech private pension scheme: Its current position and the comparison with other CEE countries

This paper focuses on the comparison of financial performance of the Czech voluntary private pension scheme with five other reformed private pension schemes in the region of Central Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic).
Jan Hlaváč
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Do Private Pensions Increase National Saving? [PDF]

This paper discusses how private pension programs differ from public social security in their likely impact on aggregate saving. Although private pensions are likely to reduce direct saving by employees, this should be offset by the combination of ...
Martin Feldstein
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Why Settle for the Status Quo? A Critical Assessment of Pension Liability Measurement Under IFRS and US GAAP

Abacus, EarlyView.
Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
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