Understanding Pensions in Europe

Program

• Session 1 — The Teaching of Pension Finance
• 09:00–09:40 Mental Accounting, Fiscal Accounting, or Pensions as Piggy Banks? Pre-Retirement Pension Leakage — John Turner (Pension Policy Center, Washington, USA) — with Bruce W. Klein.
• 09:40–10:20 Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Life-cycle Perspective — Uta Bolt (UCL & IFS) — with Eric French, Jamie Hentall Maccuish, Cormac O’Dea.
• 10:40–11:20 Bounded rationality and optimal pension design. Evidence from a life-cycle experiment — Wiebke Szymczak (Durham University, UK) — with Martin Angerer, Michael Hanke, Ekaterina Shakina.
• 11:20–12:00 Saving Regret — Tabea Bucher-Koenen (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, MEA) — with Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder.
• Session 2 — Pension Finance
• 12:50–13:30 Transparency on Defined Benefit Obligations? Introducing Financial Theory to Financial Accounting — Ute Merbecks (Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Germany).
• 13:30–14:10 Save or Pay-As-You-Go: The Effects of Ageing on Optimal Retirement Funding — Christian Hott (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Germany).
• 14:30–15:10 The Politics of Aging and Retirement: Evidence from Swiss Referenda — Piera Bello (USI, Switzerland), with Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi; Dondena; IGIER; CEPR; CESifo).
• Plenary Lectures (open to the public)
• 15:45–16:25 Key Decisions to be Made by the Insured in Liechtenstein’s Pension System — Michael Hanke (University of Liechtenstein).
• 16:25–17:05 Presentation of Online-Courses Developed in the E+ Project “Understanding Pensions in Europe” — Sebastian Stöckl (University of Liechtenstein).
• Keynote
• 17:05–18:00 Epiphanies in Pension Design and Valuation — Mogens Steffensen (University of Copenhagen).

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Agenda

• Outcomes review, platform demos, overall project success

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