March 8
Program Netspar Pension Day
09.30 - 10.00 Coffee

Parallel session Meso: Room TZ-6


10.00 - 10.45 Hans Schumacher, Tilburg University and Netspar
Pension fund investing: a kinked utility perspective
  • Paper

  • Presentation
    Discussant: An Chen, University of Amsterdam and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 10.45 - 11.30 Ronald Mahieu, Erasmus University and Netspar
    Pension fund investment management: an analysis of the funding ratio
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Joachim Inkmann, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation

    Parallel session Macro: Room TZ-3

  • 10.00 - 10.45 Harry Huizinga, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Capital structure and international debt shifting
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Lans Bovenberg, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 10.45 - 11.30 Sylvester Eijffinger, Tilburg University and Netspar
    EU pension fund regulation: why, where and how to continue
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Peter Vlaar, DNB and Netspar
  • Presentation

    Parallel session Micro: Room TZ-10

  • 10.00 - 10.45 Jan Potters, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Myopia, loss aversion and time preference
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Arthur van Soest, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 10.45 - 11.30 Peter Kooreman, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Defaults, labeling and the Dutch life course scheme
  • Paper
    Discussant: Rob Alessie, Utrecht University and Netspar

  • 11.30 - 12.00 Break

    Parallel session Meso: Room TZ 6


    12.00 - 12.45 Zhen Shi, Tilburg University and Netspar
    How large are the costs of short-term regulation on pension funds' portfolio
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Hans Schumacher, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation

    Parallel session Macro: Room TZ-3

  • 12.00 - 12.45 Ward Romp, University of Groningen and Netspar
    Macro, mortality and morbodity
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Peter Broer, CPB and Netspar
  • Presentation

    Parallel session Micro: Room TZ-10

  • 12.00 - 12.45 Jan Rouwendal, Free University Amsterdam and Netspar
    Housing and mortgage choices of elderly households

  • Paper 1
  • Paper 2
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Maarten van Rooij, DNB and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 12.45 - 13.45 Lunch

    Parallel session Meso: Room TZ-6


    13.45 - 14.30 Bertrand Melenberg and Anja de Waegenaere, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Longevity risk in portfolios of old age and spouse pensions
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Jia Jia Cui, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 14.30 - 15.15 Lieven Baele, Tilburg University
    The determinants of stock and bond return comovements
    (joint paper with Geert Bekaert (University of Columbia) and Koen Inghelbrecht (Ghent University)
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Peter Schotman,University of Maastricht and Netspar

    Parallel session Macro: Room TZ-3

  • 13.45 - 14.30 Jan Boone, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Annual vs lifecycle taxation
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Ruud de Mooij, CPB and Netspar

  • 14.30 - 15.15 Clemens Kool, University of Utrecht and Netspar
    Foreign wealth and valuation effects: the case of the Netherlands
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Roel Beetsma, University of Amsterdam and Netspar

    Parallel session Micro: Room TZ-10

  • 13.45 - 14.30 Jannes de Vries, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Life-courses changes in economic well-being: evidence from register and tax data in the Netherlands
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Frederic Vermeulen, Tilburg University and Netspar

  • 14.30 - 15.15 Gema Zamarro, Tilburg University and Netspar
    Family labor participation and childcare decisions: the role of grannies (joint paper with Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University and Netspar)
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Norma Coe, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 15.15 - 15.30 Break

    Parallel session Macro: Room TZ-3

    15.30 - 16.15 Paul de Hek, Central Planning Bureau and Netspar
    Policy analysis of retirement decisions
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Ward Romp, University of Groningen and Netspar
  • Presentation

  • 15.15 - 15.30 Break

    Parallel session Micro: Room TZ-10

    15.30 - 16.15 Hans Bloemen, Free University Amsterdam and Netspar
    Private wealth and job exit at older age: a random effects model
  • Paper
  • Presentation
    Discussant: Katie Carman, Tilburg University and Netspar
  • Presentation
  • 16.15 - 17.00 Drinks

    This Pension Day will take place at the Tias building at Tilburg University.
    For a route description to Tilburg University and/or to look for the exact location of the T-building where the Pension Day will take place, please look here.

    last update: March 12, 2007