What Will Happen to Financial Markets When the Baby Boomers Retire?:

This paper explores whether changes in the age distribution have significant effects on financial markets that are rational and forward-looking. It presents an overlapping generations model in which agents make a portfolio decision over stocks and bonds when saving for retirement- Using the model to...

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Main Author: Brooks, Robin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 2000
Series:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 00/18
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Summary:This paper explores whether changes in the age distribution have significant effects on financial markets that are rational and forward-looking. It presents an overlapping generations model in which agents make a portfolio decision over stocks and bonds when saving for retirement- Using the model to simulate a baby boom-baby bust demonstrates that returns to baby boomers will be substantially below returns to earlier generations, even when markets are rational and forward-looking. This result is important because the current debate over how to reform pay-as-you-go pension systems often takes historical returns on financial assets-and on the equity premium-as given
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (36 p)
ISBN:1451843631
9781451843637

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