Announcements

Topic of This Issue:
Retirement Income

Table of Contents

The Role of the Annuity's Value on the Decision (Not) to Annuitize: Evidence from a Large Policy Change

Monika Buetler, University of St. Gallen, CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
Staubli Stefan, University of St. Gallen - Research Institute for Empirical Economics and Economic Policy
Maria Grazia Zito, University of St. Gallen

Defined Benefit Pension Trusts: Asset Partitioning and the Residual Interest

David Fox, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Retirement Annuity and Employment-Based Pension Income Among Individuals Age 50 and Over: 2007

Kenneth J. McDonnell, Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit in Variable Annuities

Min Dai, National University of Singapore - Department of Mathematics
Yue Kuen Kwok, affiliation not provided to SSRN

Optimal Gradual Annuitization: Quantifying the Costs of Switching to Annuities

Wolfram J. Horneff, Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Finance
Raimond Maurer, University of Frankfurt - Faculty of Business and Economics
Michael Z. Stamos, Goethe University Frankfurt, Allianz Global Investors

Measuring the Tax Benefit of a Tax-Deferred Annuity

David F. Babbel, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Finance and Insurance Departments, CRA International
Ravi Reddy, affiliation not provided to SSRN

A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households

David A. Love, Williams College - Department of Economics
Paul A. Smith, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Lucy C. McNair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System