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Note on the Optimum Pricing of Annuities

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In a perfectly competitive market for annuities with full information, the price of annuities is equal to individuals (discounted) survival probabilities. That is, prices are actuarially fair. In contrast, the pricing implicit in social security systems invariably allows for cross subsidization between di¤erent risk groups males/females). We examine the utilitarian approach to the optimum pricing of annuities and show how the solution depends on the joint distribution of survival probailities and incomes in the population.

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  • Eytan Sheshinski, 2000. "Note on the Optimum Pricing of Annuities," Discussion Paper Series dp326, The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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