April 2020
04Apr

Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index 2019 (MMGPI)

By Mercer, Monash University, MELBOURNE Ageing populations continue to be a significant issue for many economies as we are living longer and fertility rates continue to decline. Pension systems are becoming more important than ever as households want to maintain their living standards throughout retirement. But how is this possible, especially within the economic environment of low interest rates and reduced economic growth? There are implications for employers, employees, governments, as well as the pension funds....

April 4, 2020
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March 2020

28Mar

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

By Robert J Shiller In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behavior--what...

March 28, 2020
Books, System Sustainability,
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13Mar

Society at a Glance 2019

By OECD The OECD biennial report providing internationally comparable data on demography and family characteristics, employment and wealth, mobility and housing, health status, social expenditure, subjective well-being, social cohesion, and other social measures. Included are such interesting variables as suicides, child care costs, prisoners, gender wage gaps, poverty and mothers in employment. Get the book here

March 13, 2020
Aging, Books, Labor Market,
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11Mar

Estudios Económicos de la OCDE: México 2019

Por OCDE El compromiso con los objetivos fiscales, la sólida gestión de la deuda, un tipo de cambio flexible y una adecuada orientación de la política monetaria han sostenido el crecimiento moderado pese a varios factores adversos afrontados en años recientes. La integración en las cadenas globales de valor impulsa un sólido crecimiento de las exportaciones, en tanto que la recuperación de los salarios reales, las abundantes remesas y el crecimiento del crédito han fomentado el consumo. La baja...

March 11, 2020
Libros, Sostenibilidad del Sistema, , ,
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04Mar

Revisiones de la OCDE de sistemas de pensiones: Perú

Por OECD Esta revisión evalúa el sistema de pensiones de Perú en su totalidad, analizando las provisiones de pensiones financiadas y financiadas tanto públicas como privadas, de pago por uso (PAYG). La revisión luego ofrece opciones de política para ayudar a combatir la pobreza en la vejez; establecer un marco sólido para que el sistema de pensiones contributivas cumpla con sus objetivos; mejorar la cobertura y el nivel de las pensiones; y optimizar el diseño y mejorar la regulación...

March 4, 2020
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February 2020

22Feb

Japan’s Public Sector Balance Sheet

By Yugo Koshima This paper compiles and reviews the evolution of Japan's Public Sector Balance Sheet (PSBS). In the past, large crossholdings of assets and liabilities within the public sector played a role in sustaining a high level of public debt and low interest rates. The Fiscal Investment and Loan Fund (FILF) channeled all postal deposits and pension savings to financing of public sector borrowing. After the FILF refrom in 2000, however, the Post Bank and pension funds shifted their...

February 22, 2020
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22Feb

Long-Term Investing by Pension Funds. How to Effectively Design and Implement Mandates: A Dutch Case Study

By Alfred Slager, Marcel Jeucken Pension funds are increasingly trying to embed long-term investing choices within their portfolios. Many publications focus on the rationale for long term investing; however, it remains unclear what long term investing actually is, what sets it apart from the current way of investing, and how it should add value. The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical framework for pension fund trustees aiming to bolster and implement long term investing. In doing so,...

February 22, 2020
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12Feb

Problemas, decisiones y soluciones: Enfoques de política pública

Por Mauricio Merino, Guillermo M. Cejudo Este libro aborda las características y los postulados básicos de los enfoques utilizados en las políticas públicas y su estudio, además de describir cómo pueden emplearse éstas en el análisis de las decisiones que toma el Estado. Esta obra, preparada por un grupo de investigadores de la División de Administración Pública del Centro para la Investigación y Docencia Económica, llena un vacío en la literatura sobre el tema. Una buena definición del problema,...

February 12, 2020
Libros, Regulación, Sostenibilidad del Sistema,
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07Feb

How Do Children Affect the Need to Save for Retirement?

By Andrew G. Biggs Children consume a substantial portion of a household’s income while living at home, but are usually financially independent by the time the parents reach retirement age. Relatively little attention has been paid to how children affect parents’ need to save for retirement. In this paper I use expenditure data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to construct life cycle expenditure patterns from households with children and childless households, comparing the two to gain insights...

February 7, 2020
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05Feb

Análisis de la actitud financiera personal para la jubilación: un sondeo en España

Por Montserrat Hernández Solís, Gabriela Topa Cantisano,Teresa C. Herrador Alcaide La jubilación es una etapa de la vida en la que cabe esperar recoger los frutos del trabajo realizado previamente, muchos años antes. La situación actual del sistema público de pensiones parece indicar la necesidad de realizar aportaciones personales de carácter privado que puedan complementar el sustento una vez llegada la situación de retiro. El ahorro para la jubilación no es un tema nuevo en otros países, y...

February 5, 2020
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