Pension funds’ risk appetite and demography
This thesis has been awarded the Netspar Tias-Netspar Academy Thesis Award 2013. Using an unique data set, this paper investigates…
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This dissertation proposes and tests a theory of consumer inaction traps – situations where consumers repeatedly fail to take actions…
Lees meerThe public market equivalent and private equity performance
We provide a formal and rigorous justification for the Kaplan and Schoar (2005)public market equivalent (“PME”) measure of historical performance…
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We compare communication about private information to communication about actions in a one-shot 2-person public good game with private information.…
Lees meerIt pays to set the menu: Mutual fund investment options in 401(k) plans
This paper investigates whether mutual fund families acting as service providers in 401(k)plans display favoritism toward their own affiliated funds.…
Lees meerWhy do investors hold socially responsible mutual funds?
Why do individual investors hold socially responsible (SRI) mutual funds? We use administrative data and link them to survey responses…
Lees meerFull or partial retirement? Effects of the pension incentives and increasing retirement age in the Netherlands and the United States
The share of the older workers in the labor force hasincreased due to population aging and pension reforms inmany countries.…
Lees meerEffects of part-time and full-time work on physical and mental health in old age
Recent studies analyzed the effect of retirement on mentaland physical health. Some of them find that retirementyields a loss in…
Lees meerThe interplay between early-life conditions, major events and health later in life
This thesis examines the interplay between early-life conditions, major events and health later in life. It consists of two parts.…
Lees meerDe financiering van overheidspensioenen in perspectief
Dit is de tweede Staat van de Ambtelijke Dienst (STAD), de eerste dateert van december 2011. De STAD is een…
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