In my study, I took into account the design faults of the state-funded, pay-as-you-go system and realised that its principle (created in arrears) is defective, and it is necessary to move to a new operating principle to correct it. We have to forget about the existing so-called ‘unfunded’ pension system, and the state pension system shall be explicitly placed on its real basis, human capital. This results in an automatic asset/liability matching that is currently totally missing, and we can forget about the usual debates about the sustainability of the pension system. The result of such a system would probably be an increase in the number of births compared to today, but this is not the purpose of the proposed reform, which I intend to e...
Birth rates have dramatically decreased and, with continuous improvements in life expectancy, pensio...
This chapter takes Switzerland’s much praised three-pillar system to illustrate some of the challeng...
In the past three decades, several attempts in various directions have been initiated for reforming ...
In my study, I took into account the design faults of the state-funded, pay-as-you-go system and rea...
The broadly used pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is intrinsically wrong. The essenceof the probl...
The study present how in the late 1930s-1940s a new, modern pension system was introduced in America...
This article, based on two books (Barr and Diamond 2008, forthcoming), sets out a series of principl...
In order to face the population ageing problem, most countries with PAYG systems introduced pension ...
The financing of social security, including its pension and health insurance sub-systems, is closely...
Unfunded state pension schemes are projected to become financially unsustainable. This is usually at...
Abstract This article, sets out a series of principles for pension design rooted in economic theory:...
The paper examines formation and sustainability of Pay-As-You-Go pension systems within the conseque...
Based on explicit present value calculations, the paper criticizes the view that the PAYGO system wa...
In this paper we examine and ultimately challenge the traditional viewpoint on the future of current...
This article, based on two books (Barr and Diamond 2008, forthcoming), sets out a series of principl...
Birth rates have dramatically decreased and, with continuous improvements in life expectancy, pensio...
This chapter takes Switzerland’s much praised three-pillar system to illustrate some of the challeng...
In the past three decades, several attempts in various directions have been initiated for reforming ...
In my study, I took into account the design faults of the state-funded, pay-as-you-go system and rea...
The broadly used pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is intrinsically wrong. The essenceof the probl...
The study present how in the late 1930s-1940s a new, modern pension system was introduced in America...
This article, based on two books (Barr and Diamond 2008, forthcoming), sets out a series of principl...
In order to face the population ageing problem, most countries with PAYG systems introduced pension ...
The financing of social security, including its pension and health insurance sub-systems, is closely...
Unfunded state pension schemes are projected to become financially unsustainable. This is usually at...
Abstract This article, sets out a series of principles for pension design rooted in economic theory:...
The paper examines formation and sustainability of Pay-As-You-Go pension systems within the conseque...
Based on explicit present value calculations, the paper criticizes the view that the PAYGO system wa...
In this paper we examine and ultimately challenge the traditional viewpoint on the future of current...
This article, based on two books (Barr and Diamond 2008, forthcoming), sets out a series of principl...
Birth rates have dramatically decreased and, with continuous improvements in life expectancy, pensio...
This chapter takes Switzerland’s much praised three-pillar system to illustrate some of the challeng...
In the past three decades, several attempts in various directions have been initiated for reforming ...