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Pension Day

On October 1 Netspar organized a Pension Day. This event took place at the Beatrix theater building in Utrecht.
 This pension day is targeted mainly but not exclusively at junior Netspar researchers. Netspar researchers are encourages to attend this Pension Day which is an important meeting venue for everyone participating in Netspar.
Below you can find all the presentations and the papers/presentations.

Session Savings & Consumption

Know more, spend more? Exploring financial literacy in the light of consumption and investment

Milena Dinkova (Utrecht University School of Economics)
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Discussant: Federica Teppa (DNB)
Presentation

Saving for retirement: why people wait

Job Krijnen (Tilburg University)
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Discussant: Henriette Prast (Tilburg University)
Presentation (no slides used)

Session Macro

Inequalities in an OLG economy with heterogeneous cohorts and pension systems

Joanna Tyrowicz (University of Warsaw / National Bank of Poland)
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Discussant: Nicoleta Ciurila (University of Amsterdam / Tinbergen Institute)
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Recovery measures of underfunded pension funds: contribution increase, no indexation, or pension cut?

Leo de Haan (DNB)
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Discussant: Agnes Joseph (Achmea)
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Session Finance & Pensions

Optimal design of funded pension schemes under financial fairness, with applications to the Dutch pension reform

Hailong Bao (Tilburg Uni)
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Discussant: Alexander Pollastri (Maastricht University)
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Bayesian portfolio-specific mortality

Frank van Berkum (UvA)
Paper (not available yet)
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Discussant: Bas Werker (Tilburg University)
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Session Expectations

How past performance framing impacts investors’ belief updating

Patrick Gerhard (Maastricht University)
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Discussant: Leo de Haan (DNB)
Presentatie

Friends, family and framing: an international comparison of longevity expectations formation

Federica Teppa (DNB)
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Discussant: Rob Alessie (University of Groningen)
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Session Older workers & Retirement

Do HR-officer’s characteristics affect firm’s willingness to hire older workers?

Raymond Montizaan (ROA, UM)
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Discussant: Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University)
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The retirement plan of the Chinese elderly

Lei Shu (Tilburg Uni)
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Discussant: Tunga Kantarci (Tilburg University)
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Session Risk & Volatility

The liquidity risk premium for long-term investors

Ran Xing (Tilburg Uni)
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Discussant: Patrick Tuijp (Ortec finance)
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Risk measures with volatility risk

Alessandro Pollastri (Maastricht University)
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Discussant: Servaas van Bilsen (Tilburg University)
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Session Retirement

Full of partial retirement? Effects of the pension incentives and increasing retirement age in the Netherlands and the US

Tunga Kantarci (Tilburg University)
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Discussant: Raymond Montizaan (ROA, UM)
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Gradual retirement, financial incentives, and labour supply of older workers: evidence from a stated preference analysis

Raymond Montizaan (ROA, UM)
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Discussant: Hans Bloemen (VU Amsterdam)
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Session Housing wealth

The usability of digital pension tools: a case study on the Dutch website ‘my pension overview’

Louise Nell (Utrecht University)
Paper (not available)
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Discussant: Wiebke Eberhardt (Maastricht University)
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The retirement savings puzzle revisited: the role of housing as a bequethable asset

Eduard Suari-Andreu (University of Groningen)
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Discussant: Thomas Post (Maastricht University)
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Session Macro

The impact of demographic shocks on the political arrangement of pay-as-you-go pension systems

Nicoleta Ciurila (UVA / Tinbergen Institute)
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Discussant: Yang Jiang (University of Groningen)
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Political (in)stability of social security reform

Joanna Tyrowicz (University of Warsaw / National Bank of Poland)
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Discussant: Damiaan Chen (University of Amsterdam)
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Session Pension savings

DC defaults & heterogeneous preferences

Jori Arts (Tilburg University Alumni)
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Mind the gap: identifying dimensions of heterogeneity between pension plan participants

Wiebke Eberhardt (Maastricht University)
Paper (not available yet)
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Discussant: Maarten van Rooij (DNB)
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The displacement effect of compulsory pension savings on private savings: an identification strategy using differences between wage-employed and self-employed in the Netherlands

Rik Dillingh (Tilburg University / Min SZW)
Paper (not available yet)
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Discussant: Eduard Suari Andreu (University of Groningen)
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Session Macro pensions

Gradual retirement of men in the Netherlands: analysis of trends with an age-period-cohort model

Johan Bonekamp (Tilburg University Alumni)
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Sets of indistinguishable models for robust optimisation

Anne Balter (Maastricht University)
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Discussant: Samuel Sender (Tilburg Uni)
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Voluntary participation in a defined benefit pension scheme

Damiaan Chen (University of Amsterdam)
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Discussant: Eduard Ponds (APG / TiU)
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Session Communication

Minimum rate of return guarantees: A valuation for customers with habit formation in preferences

Firmin Bijl (Tilburg University Alumni)
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Back to work: Employment e ffects of tighter disability insurance eligibility in the Netherlands

Silvia Garcia Mandico (Tinbergen Institute)
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Discussant: Songul Tolan (DIW Berlin, visiting TiU)
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Health status over the life cycle

Raun van Ooijen (University of Groningen)
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Discussant: Silvia Garcia Mandico (Tinbergen Institute)
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Locatie

Beatrix theater/building
1st floor (rooms 110, 115 and 116)
Jaarbeursplein 6
3521 AL Utrecht

Soortgelijke bijeenkomsten

Leiden

IPW – International Pension Workshop 2026

Call for Papers DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: MARCH 3, 2026 Netspar stimulates innovative academic research in all disciplines within the social sciences related to pensions, aging and retirement. Netspar invites contributions from all areas of Netspar’s research program for the Netspar International Pension Workshop, to be held on June 17-19, 2026.
Utrecht

Pension Day 2026

Netspar is pleased to announce the next Netspar Pension Day, which will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2026. The call for papers is open now. We invite contributions from all areas of Netspar’s 2023-2027 Knowledge Agenda.
Tilburg

Annual PhD Meeting on Pensions

This meeting is jointly organised by Maastricht University, Tilburg University, and Netspar and brings together researchers working on pensions and related topics, across disciplines and career stages, for an afternoon of discussion, feedback, and exchange of ideas. As in previous years, we warmly welcome PhD candidates, early career researchers, as well as more senior scholars and supervisors.

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