Savings for retirement under liquidity constraints: a note

Corsini, Lorenzo and Spataro, Luca (2012): Savings for retirement under liquidity constraints: a note.

Abstract

Pension systems often entail some compulsory saving over which individuals have some degree of choice in terms of the pension plan in which to invest. Our contribution analyses whether the choice between alternative plans is affected by the presence of liquidity constraints during working life. We show that liquidity constraints obviously affect the amount saved and consumed during working life but they do not affect the decision on which pension plan to choose. In fact we prove that the analytical conditions that determine the choice between different plans are the same in the constrained and unconstrained case.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Choice on pension plans; optimal portfolio composition; incomplete markets; liquidity constraints
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions; H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions; G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G23 - Non-bank Financial Institutions ; Financial Instruments ; Institutional Investors; D - Microeconomics > D9 - Intertemporal Choice > D91 - Intertemporal Household Choice ; Life Cycle Models and Saving; D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D52 - Incomplete Markets

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