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Risk aspects of investment-based social security reform [electronic resource] / edited by John Y. Campbell and Martin Feldstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 496 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226092560 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226092569 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Risk aspects of investment-based social security reform.DDC classification:
  • 368.4/3/00973 22
LOC classification:
  • HD7125 .R57 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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. One involves "prefunding," in which a person's withholdings are invested in financial instruments, such as stocks and bonds, the eventual returns from which would fund his or her retirement. The risks such a system would introduce--such as the volatility in the market prices of investment a.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 36(73)(063) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Papers presented at a NBER conference held in Islamorala, Florida, January, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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. One involves "prefunding," in which a person's withholdings are invested in financial instruments, such as stocks and bonds, the eventual returns from which would fund his or her retirement. The risks such a system would introduce--such as the volatility in the market prices of investment a.

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