Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, John Piggott, Professor of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, and Noriyuki Takayama, Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and the Chair of the Department of Insurance and Risk Management; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council; and Director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research at the Wharton School. Her areas of research and teaching are private and public insurance, risk management, public finance and labor markets, and compensation and pensions, with a US and an international focus. She received the Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
John Piggott is Professor of Economics in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, where he also heads up the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research. His research examines economic and financial aspects of population aging. He received the Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London.
Noriyuki Takayama is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research with the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. His research interests include intergenerational economic issues, public and private pensions, and household saving and wealth formation. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.
Contributors:
Mukul G. Asher, Professor of Public Policy, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the National University of Singapore
Hazel Bateman, Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Centre for Pensions and Superannuation, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Monika Bütler, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, St. Gallen University, Switzerland and Managing Director, the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research SEW-HSG
Edmund Cannon, Professor of Economics, Finance, and Management. the University of Bristol
Barbara Kaschützke, Researcher, the Finance Department, the Goethe University Frankfurt, and Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance
Bo Larsson, Analyst, the Swedish Pensions Agency and Assistant Professor, Dalarna University College
Raimond Maurer, Endowed Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance, the Finance Department, the Goethe University of Frankfurt
Moshe A. Milevsky, Professor of Finance, the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, and Executive Director, The IFID Centre
Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Edward Palmer, Professor of Social Insurance Economics, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Senior Advisor to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency
John Piggott, Professor of Economics in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales
Jose Ruiz, Professor of Finance, the University of Chile Business School
Junichi Sakamoto, Chief Adviser to the Pension Management Research Group of the Nomura Research Institute and Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Nihon University, and Sophia University
Stefan Staubli, Research Associate, the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research, the University of St. Gallen
Noriyuki Takayama, Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, the Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Ian Tonks, Professor of Finance, the School of Management, the University of Bath
Deepa Vasudevan, Researcher
Anthony Webb, Associate Director of Research, the Center for Retirement Research, Boston College
Ling-wu Shao, doctoral student in Finance, the Schulich School of Business, York University