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TAPES
Conference on Public Policy and Retirement
Uppsala, June 12-14, 2006
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MONDAY
JUNE 12, 2006
Morning
session: Pensions and Household Savings
Chair: Sören Blomquist
09:00-10.15
Defined
Contribution Plans, Defined Benefit Plans, and the Accumulation of
Retirement Wealth
Jim Poterba, JOSHUA RAUH, Steve Venti, and David Wise
Discussants: Paul Bingley and Anil Kumar
10.15-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-12.00
Individual
Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral
Lessons from 401(k) Plans
Jeff Brown, Nellie Liang, and SCOTT WEISBENNER
Discussants: Brigitte Madrian and Matias Eklöf
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Afternoon session: Household savings anomalies
Chair: Roger Gordon
14.00-15.15
Voting
over type and size of a pension system when some individuals are myopic
HELMUTH CREMER, P.D. Donder, D. Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau
Discussants: Dirk Krueger and Amy Finkelstein
15.15-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-
17:00
Employer
Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and
Retirement Study
Gary Engelhardt and ANIL KUMAR
Discussants: Courtney Coile and Clemens Sialm
18.30 Conference dinner at Walmstedtska garden
TUESDAY
13 JUNE, 2006
Morning
session: Savings through Pensions
Chair: Jim Poterba
09.00-10.15
Public
Pension Programmes and the Retirement of Married Couples in Denmark
PAUL BINGLEY and Gauthier Lanot
Discussants Jim Poterba and Arthur van Soest
10.15-11.30
Should
You Take a Lump-Sum or Annuitize Results from Swiss Pension Funds
MONIKA BÜTLER and Federica Teppa
Discussants: Vincenzo Galasso and Joshua Rauh
11.30-12.00
Coffee Break
12.00-13.15
The Tradeoff
between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Savings
Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang and CLEMENS SIALM
Discussants: Michelle White and Scott Weisbenner
13.15
Light lunch and then depart for afternoon social program
WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 2006
Morning session: Retirement incentives
Chair: Helmuth Cremer
09.00-10.15
Labor Market Shocks
and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?
COURTNEY COILE and Phil Levine
Discussants: Olivia Mitchell and Monica Bütler
10.15-11.30
The Employment
Effect of Stricter Rules for Eligibility to DI: Evidence from a
Natural Experiment in Sweden
Anders Karlström, MÅRTEN PALME and Ingemar Svensson
Discussants: Axel Börsch-Supan and Marie-Louise Leroux
11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.15
Estimating
Early Retirement with Special Early Retirement Offers
MATIAS EKLÖF and Daniel Hallberg
Discussants: Roger Gordon and Jeff Brown
13.15-14.45 Lunch
Afternoon session: Health and Retirement
Chair: Michelle White
14.45-16.00
Supply
or Demand: Why is the Market for Long-term Care Insurance so Small?
JEFF BROWN and Amy Finkelstein
Discussants: Leora Friedberg and Mårten Palme
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.45
Varying Life
Expectancy and Social Security
A Bommier, M-L Leroux and JEAN-MARIE LOZACHMEUR
Discussants: Panu Poutvaara and Philippe De Donder
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