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Tax incentives for private life annuities and the social security reform: Effects on consumption and on adverse selection

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Susanne Pech () (Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

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In this paper we analyse several measures which are typically included in a social security reform: a cut in the social security benefits, an increase in the social security tax and tax incentives for the purchase of private life annuities, which have recently become quite popular at the political level. In a two-period model with uncertainty about life-expectancy, it is shown that for a given annuity price tax incentives for life annuities increases consumption expenditures in old-age, while the opposite occurs by a cut in the social security benefits and by an increase of the social security tax. The main result is that a tax incentive for life annuities and a cut in the social security benefits alleviate adverse selection in the private annuity market, while an increase in the social security tax exacerbates adverse selection.

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Keywords: annuity market; uncertain lifetime; adverse selection; tax incentives; social security;

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D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information
D91 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth - - - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies
H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions

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