Pensions Workshop Programme

	Workshop on Public Pensions
Programme
Wednesday, 2 May 2001
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome
09:15 - 10:15	JOHANN BRUNNER & Susanne Pech: "Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market when Payoffs Vary over the Time of Retirement." Discussant: Henning Bohn	Paper
10:15 - 11:15	EYTAN SHESHINSKI: "Annuities and Retirement." Discussant: Alexander Haupt	Paper
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Keynote speech: GARY BURTLESS (Brookings Institution)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	HENNING BOHN: "Retirement Savings in an Aging Society: A Case for Innovative Government Debt Management to Facilitate Risk Sharing." Discussant: Alessandro Cigno	Paper
14:30 - 15:30	ANDREAS WAGENER: "Towards the Political Economy of Intergenerational Risk Sharing within Social Security Schemes." Discussant: Georges Casamatta	Paper
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00	JEAN-MARIE LOZACHMEUR, Helmuth Cremer & Pierre Pestieau: "Social Security and Variable Retirement Schemes. An Optimal Taxation Approach." Discussant: Reinhold Schnabel	Paper
17:00 - 18:00	MATHIAS KIFMANN & Dirk Schindler: "Demographic Changes and the Implicit Tax Rate in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System." Discussant: Harrie Verbon	Paper
19:00	Conference dinner - Seehaus
Thursday, 3 May 2001
09:15 - 10:15	ALESSANDRO CIGNO, Luca Casolaro & Furio Rosati: "The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions: Var Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany." Discussant: Eytan Sheshinski	Paper
10:15 - 11:15	FLORENCE LEGROS & Stéphane Hamayon: "Settlement and Impact of a Reserve Fund within the French PAYG Scheme in a Demoeconomic Model." Discussant: Jean-Marie Lozachmeur	Paper
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Keynote speech: PIERRE PESTIEAU (University of Liège)	Paper
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	REINHOLD SCHNABEL & Axel Börsch Supan: "Micro-Modelling of Retirement Decisions in Germany." Discussant: Florence Legros	Paper
14:30 - 15:30	GEORGES CASAMATTA, Helmuth Cremer & Pierre Pestieau: "Voting on Pensions with Endogenous Retirement Age." Discussant: Mathias Kifmann	Paper
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00	HARRIE VERBON, Theo Leers & Lex Meijdam: "The Politics of Pension Reform under Aging." Discussant: Johann Brunner	Paper
17:00 - 18:00	ALEXANDER HAUPT & Wolfgang Peters: "Voting on Public Pensions with Hand and Feet: How Young Migrants Try to Escape from Gerontocracy." Discussant: Andreas Wagener	Paper
18:00	Close of conference

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Workshop on Public Pensions

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