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Mandatory pension savings and the insurance value of annuities
Mandated pension schemes not only address the problem of undersaving but also typically offer annuities for the decumulation phase. These annuities perform a market maker function when, due to market failures, annuities are either unavailable or priced far from the actuarially fair benchmark. These annuities are intramarginal to the individual, and their insurance value is shown to be determined by a simple metric: the net present value of the payment flow discounted at the return on standard saving vehicles. The marginal and average values are identical, and the ex-ante value of the annuity is independent of individual preferences and survival probabilities.
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Many economists today are concerned by the proliferation of journals and the concomitant labyrinth of research to be conquered in order to reach the specific information they require. To combat this tendency, Economics Letters has been conceived and designed outside the realm of the traditional economics journal. As a Letters Journal, it consists of concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.