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Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance

Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkus, Editors
This book explores the assumptions behind commonly-held theories of retirement decision-making, in order to draw out the consequences of frontier research in behavioral finance and economics for those interested in better design and structure of retirement pensions. The book will be of interest to pension plan participants and sponsors, financial service groups responsible for pensions, and retirement system regulators.

July 2004 · Oxford University Press · ISBN 0-19-927339-1

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Table of Contents [51K PDF · no login required]
Chapter 1: Lessons from Behavioral Finance for Retirement Plan Design [200K PDF]
Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkus
Chapter 2: Motivating Retirement Planning: Problems and Solutions [58K PDF]
Gary W. Selnow
Chapter 3: Who's Afraid of a Poor Old Age? Risk Perception in Risk Management Decisions [92K PDF]
Elke U. Weber
Chapter 4: Behavioral Portfolios: Hope for Riches and Protection from Poverty [83K PDF]
Meir Statman
Chapter 5: How Much Choice Is Too Much? Contributions to 401(k) Retirement Plans [111K PDF]
Sheena Sethi-Iyengar, Gur Huberman, and Wei Jiang
Chapter 6: "Money Attitudes" and Retirement Plan Design: One Size Does Not Fit All [125K PDF]
Donna M. MacFarland, Carolyn D. Marconi, and Stephen P. Utkus
Chapter 7: Employee Investment Decisions About Company Stock [93K PDF]
James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, and Andrew Metrick
Chapter 8: Implications of Pension Plan Features, Information, and Social Interactions for Retirement Savings Decisions [88K PDF]
Esther Duflo and Emmanuel Saez
Chapter 9: Saving and the Effectiveness of Financial Education [124K PDF]
Annamaria Lusardi
Chapter 10: Sex Differences, Financial Education, and Retirement Goals [97K PDF]
Robert L. Clark, Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio, Ann A. McDermed, and Kshama Sawant
Chapter 11: Retirement Security in a DC World: Using Behavioral Finance to Bridge The Expertise Gap [76K PDF]
Jason Scott and Gregory Stein
Chapter 12: Adult Learning Principles and Pension Participant Behavior [83K PDF
Victor Saliterman and Barry G. Sheckley
Chapter 13: How Do Retirees Go From Stock to Flow? [123K PDF]
John Ameriks
Chapter 14: Annuities and Retirement Well-Being [81K PDF]
Constantijn W. A. Panis
Chapter 15: Perceptions of Mortality Risk: Implications for Annuities [73K PDF]
Matthew Drinkwater and Eric T. Sondergeld
Index [47K PDF]

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