January - June 2008
The seminars are held on Thursdays from 13.00 - 14.00 hours. All seminars take place in K702. If the location is different, it is mentioned below the particular date. Lunch is served.

January 24, 2008
Eduard Ponds
Collective pension plans and optimal lifecycle planning

February 28, 2008
Theo Nijman
The General Pension Institution (API)

March 6, 2008 (Location K834)
Maroesjka Versantvoort
Hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis of time during the life course in different welfare states

March 13, 2008
Ralph Stevens
Potential hedging effects of partner pensions in pension liabilities

April 3, 2008
Roel Mehlkopf
Optimal collective risk sharing under individual labor supply flexibility

April 10, 2008
Mauro Mastrogiacomo
Pension plans and pension outcomes. Who gets it right?

April 24, 2008 (Location K834)
Nick Draper
Prudence and Robustness as Explanations for Precautionary Savings; an Evaluation

May 8, 2008
Alexander van Haastrecht
Efficient, almost exact simulation of the Heston stochastic volatility model.

May 15, 2008
Richard Plat
Analytical approximation for prices of swap rate dependent embedded options in insurance products

May 22, 2008
Jiajia Cui
DC pension plan defaults and individual welfare

June 5, 2008
Tsui Ka Cheng
Reverse mortgages as retirement financing instrument for "asset-rich and cash-poor" Singaporeans

June 12, 2008 from 12.00 - 13.00 hrs.
Karen van der Wiel
Some empirical insights in the expectations formation process

Last update: June 6, 2008