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OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions

Selected studies on insurance and private pensions policy prepared for use within the OECD and addressing such policy issues as risk management, governance, types of investments, and benefit protection. This working papers series has been discontinued; it is superseded by ‘OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions’ available via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/20797117.

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Private Pensions and Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis

This paper discusses responses to current financial and economic crisis by regulators, supervisors and policy makers in the area of private pensions. These responses are examined in the light of international guidelines, best practices and recommendations to improve the design of private pensions.

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Keywords: defined contribution, private pensions, defined benefit, funding and solvency rules, supervision, risk-management, regulation
JEL: G11: Financial Economics / General Financial Markets / Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions; J26: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Retirement; Retirement Policies; E21: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics / Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy / Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth; D14: Microeconomics / Household Behavior and Family Economics / Household Saving; Personal Finance; G38: Financial Economics / Corporate Finance and Governance / Corporate Finance and Governance: Government Policy and Regulation; D91: Microeconomics / Micro-Based Behavioral Economics / Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making; J14: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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