Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
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Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

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Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

About this book

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 assets—are the focus of this offering from the NBER. Exploring the issues involved in measuring risk and developing models to reflect the risks of various investment-based systems, economists evaluate the magnitude of the risks that both retirees and taxpayers would assume. The insights that emerge show that the risk is actually moderate relative to the improved return, as well as being balanced by the ability of an investment-based system to adapt to differences in individual preferences and conditions.

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Yes, you can access Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform by John Y. Campbell, Martin Feldstein, John Y. Campbell,Martin Feldstein in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politique et relations internationales & Économie politique. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Asset Allocation and Risk Allocation: Can Social Security Improve Its Future Solvency Problem by Investing in Private Securities?
  5. 2. The Transition to Investment-Based Social Security When Portfolio Returns and Capital Profitability Are Uncertain
  6. 3. The Effect of Pay-When-Needed Benefit Guarantees on the Impact of Social Security Privatization
  7. 4. Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?
  8. 5. The Social Security Trust Fund, the Riskless Interest Rate, and Capital Accumulation
  9. 6. Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty: The Risk-Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies
  10. 7. The Risk of Social Security Benefit-Rule Changes: Some International Evidence
  11. 8. Financial Engineering and Social Security Reform
  12. 9. The Role of Real Annuities and Indexed Bonds in an Individual Accounts Retirement Program
  13. 10. The Role of International Investment in a Privatized Social Security System
  14. 11. Investing Retirement Wealth: A Life-Cycle Model
  15. Contributors
  16. Author Index
  17. Subject Index