How Deep is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle?
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- Joachim Inkmann & Paula Lopes & Alexander Michaelides, 2011. "How Deep Is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle?," Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 24(1), pages 279-319.
- Paula Lopes & Alex Michaelides & Joachim Inkmann, 2009. "How deep is the annuity market participation puzzle?," 2009 Meeting Papers 239, Society for Economic Dynamics.
- Inkmann, Joachim & Lopes, Paula & Michaelides, Alexander, 2010. "How Deep is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle?," CEPR Discussion Papers 7940, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Inkmann, Joachim & Lopes, Paula & Michaelides, Alexander, 2007. "How deep is the annuity market participation puzzle?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 24488, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Annuities; portfolio choice; life insurance; bequest motive;JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2010-01-16 (All new papers)
- NEP-IAS-2010-01-16 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2010-01-16 (Macroeconomics)
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