Pension design and structure : new lessons from behavioral finance /

Employees are increasingly asked to make sophisticated decisions about their pension and healthcare plans. Yet recent research shows that the decisions 'real' people make are often not those of the careful and well-informed economic agent conventionally portrayed in economic research. Rath...

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Hauptverfasser:
Mitchell, Olivia S., Utkus, Stephen P.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
Zusammenfassung:
Employees are increasingly asked to make sophisticated decisions about their pension and healthcare plans. Yet recent research shows that the decisions 'real' people make are often not those of the careful and well-informed economic agent conventionally portrayed in economic research. Rather, decision-makers tend to operate with flawed information and make some of the most critical financial decisions of their lives lacking a full understanding of the options before them and theimplications of their decisions. Pension Design and Structure explores the assumptions behind commonly-held theories
Umfang:
1 online resource (315 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786611925208
1-281-92520-9
0-19-153424-2
Schlagworte:
Pensions > Planning.
Pensions > Government policy.
Retirement income > Planning.
Employees > Finance, Personal > Psychological aspects.
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