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Pension funds and Market Efficiency: A review

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  • Ashok Thomas
  • Luca Spataro

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The literature on the relationship between pension funds development and market efficiency has been flourishing in the past decades. In this paper we provide an updated review of the theoretical and empirical advances in this field of study, with particular focus on the effects that pension funds exert on labor markets, financial markets and economic growth.

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  • Ashok Thomas & Luca Spataro, 2013. "Pension funds and Market Efficiency: A review," Discussion Papers 2013/164, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
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    Keywords

    Pension funds; Job Mobility and Labor Force participation; Capital Markets;
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    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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