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Optimal Funding and Asset Allocation Rules for Defined-Benefit Pension Plans

In: Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System

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J. Michael Harrison
William F. Sharpe

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This chapter was published in: J. Michael Harrison & William F. Sharpe Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System, , pages 91-106, 1983.

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Zvi Bodie & John B. Shoven, 1983. "Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number bodi83-1.
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  1. Sharpe, William F., 1976. "Corporate pension funding policy," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(3), pages 183-193, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. David A. Love & Paul A. Smith & David Wilcox, 2009. "Should risky firms offer risk-free DB pensions?," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2009-20, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
  2. Zvi Bodie, 1991. "Pension Funds and Financial Innovation," NBER Working Papers 3101, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Zvi Bodie, 1988. "Pension Fund Investment Policy," NBER Working Papers 2752, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Steenkamp, Tom B.M. van, 1999. "Contingent claims analysis and the valuation of pension liabilities," Serie Research Memoranda 0019, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics. [Downloadable!]
  5. Chongmin Kim, 2004. "Corporate financial policy with pension accounts: an extension of the Modigliani-Miller theorem," International Economic Journal, Korean International Economic Association, vol. 18(2), pages 215-236, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. James E. Pesando, 1986. "Discontinuities in Pension Benefit Formulas and the Spot Model of the Labor Market: Implications for Financial Economists," NBER Working Papers 1795, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Zvi Bodie & Jay O. Light & Randall Morck & Robert A. Taggart, Jr., 1986. "Funding and Asset Allocation in Corporate Pension Plans: An Empirical Investigation," NBER Working Papers 1315, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Joshua Rauh, 2007. "Risk Shifting versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans," NBER Working Papers 13240, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  9. David A. Love & Paul A. Smith & David Wilcox, 2007. "Why do firms offer risky defined benefit pension plans?," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-36, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
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  10. Alan J. Marcus, 1983. "Corporate Pension Policy and the Value of PBGC Insurance," NBER Working Papers 1217, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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