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by David Blake (Author)
While not attempting to train readers as professional economists, this book aims to provide a secure grounding in the theory and practice of economics insofar as it deals with pension matters. From reading this book, the user will understand:
* The key types of pension scheme
* The role of pensions in maximizing individual lifetime welfare
* The role of pensions in individual savings and retirement decisions
* The role and consequences of the pension plan from the company's viewpoint
* The role of pensions in promoting aggregate savings
* The role of pensions and retirement in overlapping generations models
* The economics of ageing and intergenerational accounting
* The social welfare implications of pensions
* The lessons of behavioural economics for pensions
Front Jacket
Pensions are a major public policy issue - in most countries, they represent a large portion of government fiscal obligations, a burden forecast to increase yet further as the 'baby boom' generation approaches retirement. At the same time, private pensions are a major component of financial markets and an important contributor to savings, investment and economic growth.
Pension economics considers the way in which individuals, companies and the state provide for retirement, and the consequences of the accumulating pension assets for the wider macroeconomy. As the global pensions crisis looms, it is essential that everyone working in the pensions industry understand how economics underpins the allocation of scarce resources - both now and in the future - and the incentives influencing this allocation. Pension Economics provides a secure grounding in the theory and practice of economics insofar as it deals with pension matters. From this book readers will learn about the role of pensions:
- in maximising individual lifetime welfare
- in individual savings and retirement decisions
- their consequences from the company's viewpoint
- in promoting aggregate savings
- in overlapping generations models
In addition, the book describes the various types of pension plans, covers the economics of ageing and intergenerational accounting and looks at the social welfare implications of pensions.
Back Jacket
Pensions are a major public policy issue - in most countries, they represent a large portion of government fiscal obligations, a burden forecast to increase yet further as the 'baby boom' generation approaches retirement. At the same time, private pensions are a major component of financial markets and an important contributor to savings, investment and economic growth.
Pension Economics considers the way in which individuals, companies and the state provide for retirement, and the consequences of the accumulating pension assets for the wider macroeconomy. As the global pensions crisis looms, it is essential that everyone working in the pensions industry understand how economics underpins the allocation of scarce resources - both now and in the future - and the incentives influencing this allocation. Pension Economics provides a secure grounding in the theory and practice of economics insofar as it deals with pension matters. From this book readers will learn about the role of pensions:
- in maximising individual lifetime welfare
- in individual savings and retirement decisions
- their consequences from the company's viewpoint
- in promoting aggregate savings
- in overlapping generations models
In addition, the book describes the various types of pension plans, covers the economics of ageing and intergenerational accounting and looks at the social welfare implications of pensions. It ends with a discussion of behavioural pension economics.
Author Biography
Dr DAVID BLAKE is Professor of Pension Economics and Director of the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School, London, and Chairman of Square Mile Consultants, a training and research consultancy. He was formerly Director of the Securities Industry Programme at City University Business School, Research Fellow at both the London Business School and the London School of Economics and Professor of Financial Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is consultant to many organisations, including Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland, JPMorgan, McKinsey & Co., the Financial Services Authority, the Office of Fair Trading, the Office for National Statistics, the Government Actuary's Department, the National Audit Office, the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Treasury, the Bank of England, the Prime Minister's Policy Directorate and the World Bank. In June 1996, he established the Pensions Institute, which undertakes high-quality research on all pension-related issues and publishes details of its research activities on the internet (http: //www.pensions-institute.org).
