Thursday, August 18, 2011, 10:30-12:15 pm; Household Finance
Pensions - C3

Session Chair: Luis Viceira, Harvard University

• Attitudes Toward Government as Determinants of Intertemporal Choice PDF
  Jeffrey R. Brown^1,2, Zoran Ivković³, Scott Weisbenner^1,2
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign¹; NBER²; Michigan State University³
  • Discussant: Vladimir Borgy, Banque de France

• The Revenue Demands of Public Employee Pension Promises PDF
  Robert Novy-Marx, Joshua Rauh
  University of Rochester; Northwestern University
  • Discussant: Frank de Jong, Tilburg University

• Retirement Investing: Analyzing the 'Roth' Conversion and Re-characterization Options PDF
  Robert M. Dammon¹, Chester Spatt¹, Harold H. Zhang²
  Carnegie Mellon University¹; University of Texas at Dallas²
  • Discussant: Paul Ehling, BI Norwegian Business School