The effects of investing social security funds in the stock market when fixed costs prevent some households from holding stocks:

With fixed costs of participating in the stock market, consumers with high income will participate in the stock market, but consumers with lower income will not participate. If a fully-funded defined-contribution social security system tries to exploit the equity premium by selling a dollar of bonds...

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Main Author: Abel, Andrew B. 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000
Series:NBER working paper series 7739
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Summary:With fixed costs of participating in the stock market, consumers with high income will participate in the stock market, but consumers with lower income will not participate. If a fully-funded defined-contribution social security system tries to exploit the equity premium by selling a dollar of bonds per capita and buying a dollar of equity per capita, consumers who save but do not participate in the stock market will increase their consumption, thereby reducing saving and capital accumulation. Calibration of a general equilibrium model indicates that this policy could reduce the aggregate capital stock substantially, by about 50 cents per capita.
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