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  11/13/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation"  Ethan Yale
"Employee Stock Option Valuation with an Early Exercise Boundary"  Neil Brisley and Chris K. Anderson
"The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on CEO Pay for Luck"  Teodora Paligorova
"Employee Stock Options: Accounting for Optimal Hedging, Suboptimal Exercises, and Contractual Restrictions"  Tim Leung
"Are Tax and Accounting Rules Discriminating against Discounted Employee Stock Options Justified?"  David I. Walker
"Compensation Consultants and Executive Pay: U.K. Evidence"  Konstantinos Stathopoulos,
Georgios Voulgaris and Martin Walker
"Dividend Payout and Executive Compensation: Theory and Evidence"  Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya, Amin Mawani and Cameron K.J. Morrill
 
  11/06/08     RETIREMENT INCOME
"Marital Histories and Economic Well-Being"  Julie M. Zissimopoulos, Benjamin Karney and Amy Rauer
"Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers"  Tracy Falba, Bill Gallo and Jody L. Sindelar
"The 2008 Health Confidence Survey: Rising Costs Continue to Change the Way Americans Use the Health Care System"  Ruth Helman and Paul Fronstin,
"Pension Freezes and Household Saving Over the Life Cycle"  David A. Love and Paul A. Smith
"Public Sector Pension Governance in the United States: Up to the Task?"  Joel T. Harper
"Comparing Strategies for Retirement Wealth Management: Mutual Funds and Annuities"  Gaobo Pang and Mark J. Warshawsky
 
  10/30/08     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Individuals' Responses to Social Security Reform"  Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder
"How Does Modeling of Retirement Decisions at the Family Level Affect Estimates of the Impact of Social Security Policies on Retirement?"  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
"The True Cost of Social Security" Alexander W. Blocker, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Stephen A. Ross
"How the Income Tax Treatment of Saving and Social Security Benefits May Affect Boomers' Retirement Incomes"  Barbara A. Butrica, Karen E. Smith and Eric J. Toder
"Comparing the Impacts of Social Security Benefit Reductions on the Income Distribution of the Elderly"  Wade Pfau
"Children's Stake in Social Security"  
Joni Lavery and Virginia P. Reno
"Social Security: Who Wants Private Accounts?"  Michael S. Finke and Swarn Chatterjee
"Personal Retirement Accounts and Saving"  Emma Aguila
 
  10/23/08     RETIREMENT ISSUES
"Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends, 2007"  
Craig Copeland
"Between Labour Market and Retirement Pension - Flexible Transition as a New Paradigm for Ageing Societies?"  Stephan Bredt
"A Legislative and Political History of Erisa Preemption, Part 3"  James A. Wooten
"Erisa Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure Claims: Securities Litigation Under the Guise of ERISA?"  Clovis J. Trevino Bravo
"The Demise of Defined Benefit Plans for Private Employers"  Kathryn J. Kennedy
"Preemption and Civic Democracy in the Battle Over Wal-Mart"  Catherine Fisk and Michael M. Oswalt
"A New Strategy to Maximize Retirement Withdrawals Using TIPS and Longevity Insurance"  S. Gowri Shankar
"Roth Retirement Accounts: A Practitioner's Approach"  Mark N. Mercer  
 
  10/16/08     RETIREMENT INCOME
"Social Security Reform: Lessons from Private Pensions"  Karen C. Burke and Grayson M.P. McCouch
"On Myopia as Rationale for Social Security"  Torben M. Andersen and Joydeep Bhattacharya
"Demographic Uncertainty and Welfare in a Life-Cycle Model Under Alternative Public Pension Systems"  Muhammad Rahman
"An Examination of Retirement Income Adequacy Measures and Factors Affecting Retirement Preparedness"  Cassandra R. Cole and Andre P. Liebenberg
"What is an Adequate Standard of Living During Retirement?"  Johannes Binswanger and Daniel Schunk
 
  10/09/08     HEALTH CARE
"How Does the Market Value Healthcare Liabilities?"  Natalia Aranco and Rodrigo Lluberas
"Who is at Risk of Losing and Gaining Health Insurance?"  Robert W. Fairlie and Rebecca A. London
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2008 Current Population Survey"  Paul Fronstin
"Employee Choice of Flexible Spending Account Participation and Health Plan"  
Barton H. Hamilton and James Marton
"A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care" Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom and Bas van der Klaauw,
"Disability Rights, Disability Discrimination, and Social Insurance"  Mark C. Weber
"Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040" Robert W. Fogel
 
  10/02/08     PENSION ISSUES
"ESOP Fables: The Impact of Employee Stock Ownership Plans on Labor Disputes"  Peter Cramton, Hamid Mehran and Joseph S. Tracy,
"Sorry, No Remedy: The Grand Irony of ERISA"  Paul M. Secunda
"IRA Assets and Contributions, 2007"  Craig Copeland
"A Note on Coordinating Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Benefits in a Multi-Pillar Pension Plan"  David P. Bernstein
"How Institutional' are Institutional Investors? The Institutional Life of US Occupational Pension Funds"  Ville-Pekka Sorsa
"Funding Levels and Gender in Public Pension Plans"  Tim V. Eaton and John R. Nofsinger
 
  09/25/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"How Much Sunlight Does it Take to Disinfect a Boardroom? A Short History of Executive Compensation Regulation"  Ian L. Dew-Becker
"Executive Compensation and Stock Options: An Inconvenient Truth"  Jean-Pierre Danthine and
John B. Donaldson
"International Executive Pay: Current Practices and Future Trends"  Randall S. Thomas
"Valuing Executive Stock Options: Performance Hurdles, Early Exercise and Stochastic Volatility"  Philip R. Brown and Alexander Szimayer
"The Impact of Corporate Governance on Executive Compensation"  Stephen G. Sapp
"'Say on Pay': Cautionary Notes on the UK Experience and the Case for Muddling Through"  
Jeffrey N. Gordon
"The Adoption of Deferred Share Unit Plans for Outside Directors and Shareholder Wealth"  
Samer Khalil, Michel Magnan and Paul André
"Managerial Ability and Executive Compensation"  John R. Graham, Si Li and Jiaping Qiu
 
  09/19/08     HEALTH CARE ISSUES
"The Effect of State Mandates on Health Insurance Premiums"  Stephan Gohmann and Myra J. McCrickard
"Health Care in Crisis: The Drive for Health Reform in Canada and the United States"  Theodore R. Marmor and Antonia Maioni
"Health Indexes and Retirement Modeling in International Comparisons"  Erik Meijer, Arie Kapteyn and Tatiana Andreyeva
"The Grass is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World"
Michael Tanner
"The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance"
John F. Cogan, Daniel P. Kessler and Robert Glenn Hubbard
"Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?" Alan M. Garber and Jonathan S. Skinner
"Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System"  
Randall Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor and Mark Votruba
 
  09/12/08     EMPLOYEE STOCK
"Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance"  Joseph Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Chris Mackin and Douglas L. Kruse
"Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes Under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options"  Douglas L. Kruse, Richard B. Freeman, and Joseph Blasi
"Samuel Zell, the Chicago Tribune, and the Emergence of the S ESOP: Understanding the Tax Advantages and Disadvantages of S ESOPs"  Michael S. Knoll
"Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism? John W. Budd
"What Was the Question? The NYSE and Nasdaq's Curious Listing Standards Requiring Shareholder Approval of Equity-Compensation Plans"  Andrew Lund
"Risk and Lack of Diversification Under Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism"  Joseph Blasi, Douglas L. Kruse and Harry Markowitz
 
  09/05/08     DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLANS
"Default Investment Options in Defined Contribution Plans: A Quantitative Comparison"
Gaobo Pang and Mark J. Warshawsky
"Storm Clouds Ahead for 401(K) Plans?"  Pamela J. Perun
"A Square Peg in a Round Hole? Whether Make Whole Relief Is Available Under Erisa Section 502(A)(3)"  Susan Harthill
"Income Drawdown Schemes for a Defined-Contribution Pension Plan" Paul Emms and Steven Haberman
"Why No Prospectus Required for Pension Plans"  Mark C. Williamson
"Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs"  Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
"A Curious ERISA Case Before the Supreme Court"  Albert Feuer
"Borrowing from Yourself: 401(K) Loans and Household Balance Sheets"  Geng Li and Paul A. Smith
 
  08/28/08     HEALTHCARE
"The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates"  Marcos Pompeu Pareto
"What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption"  Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Matt Notowidigdo
"State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?"  Ellen Meara, Meredith B. Rosenthal, Anna Sinaiko and Katherine Baicker
"Health Insurance Policy Design and Competing Objectives"  David P. Bernstein
"Lessons from the Evolution of 401(K) Retirement Plans for Increased Consumerism in Health Care: An Application of Behavioral Research"  Jodi DiCenzo and Paul Fronstin
"The Impact of Immigration on Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 1994-2006"  
Paul Fronstin
"Labor Markets and Health Benefits: The Offer and Restrictions on It"  Nan L. Maxwell
"Saving for Health Care Expenses in Retirement: The Use of Health Savings Accounts"  Paul Fronstin
"Entitlements: Not Just a Health Care Problem"  Andrew G. Biggs
"Value-Based Mandated Health Benefits"  Amy Monahan
 
  08/21/08     RETIREMENT PLANS
"Pension Fund Governance: Challenges and Potential Solutions"  Juan Yermo
"ESOP Debt and Post-Transaction Value"  Kevin Kreitzman
"Pension Options Valuation and Hedging Bounds"  Tao Hao
"The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises"  Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh
"Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges"  Olivia S. Mitchell,
John Piggott and Cagri S. Kumru
"Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private-Sector Employers"  Kenneth J. McDonnell
"How Mandatory Pensions Affect Labor Supply Decisions and Human Capital Accumulation? Options to Bridge the Gap between Economic Theory and Policy Analysis"  Andras Bodor, David A. Robalino and Mukul Rutkowski
 
  08/14/08     SOCIAL SECURITY AND RETIREMENT
"A New Approach to Raising Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age"  Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert K. Triest and Natalia Zhivan
"The Social Security Earnings Test: The Tax that Wasn't"  Andrew G. Biggs
"A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits"  Richard L. Kaplan
"Policies to Improve the Resiliency of Long-Term Social Security Financing"  Andrew G. Biggs
"The Never-Married in Old Age: Projections and Concerns for the Near Future"  Christopher R. Tamborini
"The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries"  Gary Burtless
"Training Background and Early Retirement"  Raymond Michel Montizaan, Frank Coervers and
Andries de Grip
"EBRI 2008 Recent Retirees Survey: Report of Findings"  Ruth Helman, Craig Copeland, Jack VanDerhei and Dallas L. Salisbury
 
  08/08/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation"  David I. Walker and Victor Fleischer
"Superstar CEOs"  Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey A. Tate
"Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005"  Carola Frydman and Raven E. Saks
"Compensation Incentives, Deregulation and Risk-Taking: Lessons from the U.S. Banking Industry" Mohamed Belkhir and Abdelaziz Chazi
"Chief Executive Officers and the Pay-Pension Tradeoff" Joseph Gerakos
"Executive Pay and Shareholder Litigation" Ailsa Röell
 
  07/31/08     HEALTH CARE
"Can VEBAs Alleviate Retiree Health Care Problems?"  Aaron Bernstein
"The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth" Richard W. Johnson, Gordon Mermin and Dan Murphy
"Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice{  M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan Levin and Neale A. Mahoney
"Who Receives Offers of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance?" David P. Bernstein
"Labor Markets and Health Benefits: The Offer and Restrictions on It"  Nan L. Maxwell
 
  07/24/08     RETIREMENT
"Participant Perceptions and Decision-Making Concerning Retirement Benefits"  Colleen Medill
"Optimal Retirement Age"  Jonathan Barry Forman and Bing Yung-Ping Chen
"How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends"  Alan L. Gustman and
Thomas L. Steinmeier
"Forecasting Labor Force Participation and Economic Resources of the Early Baby Boomers"  Pierre-Carl Michaud and Susann Rohwedder
"The 4% Rule - At What Price?"  Jason S. Scott, William F. Sharpe and John G. Watson
"Have People Delayed Claiming Retirement Benefits? Responses to Changes in Social Security Rules"  Jae Song and Joyce Manchester
"Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure"  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst
 
  07/17/08     DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLANS
"Are Pension Savings Sufficient? Perceptions and Expectations of American and Dutch Workers" Hendrik P. van Dalen, Kene Henkens and Douglas A. Hershey
"The Future of 401(K) Plan Fees"  Jonathan Barry Forman
"Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?"  Annamaria Lusardi
"The Impact of PPA on Retirement Savings for 401(K) Participants"  Jack VanDerhei and Craig Copeland
"The Efficiency of Pension Plan Investment Menus: Investment Choices in Defined Contribution Pension Plans" Ning Tang and Olivia S. Mitchell
 
  07/10/08     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Future Beneficiary Expectations of the Returns to Delayed Social Security Benefit Claiming and Choice Behavior" Jeff Dominitz, Angela Hung and Arthur van Soest
"Managing the Risk of Life"  Adeline Delavande and Robert J. Willis
"The Farm, the City and the Emergence of Social Security"  Elizabeth M. Caucutt,Thomas F. Cooley and Nezih Guner
"A Model of Social Security Disability Insurance Using Matched SIPP/Administrative Data"  
Kajal Lahiri, Jae Song and Bernard Wixon
"Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts"  John Geanakoplos and Stephen P. Zeldes
 
  06/19/08     EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
"Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds: A Review of International Experience and Preliminary Assessment of the First Outcomes"  Gregory G. Brunner, Richard Hinz and Roberto de Rezende Rocha
"Corporate Use of Cash Balance Pension Plans"  Kandice Kapinos
"Equity Valuation Effects of the Pension Protection Act of 2006"  John L. Campbell, Dan S. Dhaliwal and William C. Schwartz Jr.
"Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking"
Michael D. Grubb and Paul Oyer
"Not All Plan Failures are Created Equal: Inventing the Code Section 409A Correction Program" Brian A. Benko
"Savings Needed to Fund Health Insurance and Health Care Expenses in Retirement: Findings from a Simulation Model"  Paul Fronstin, Dallas L. Salisbury and Jack VanDerhei
"Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Role of the States"  Arthur B. LaFrance
 
  06/12/08     SAVING
"Why Not a 'Super Simple' Saving Plan for the United States?"  Pamela J. Perun and C. Eugene Steuerle
"Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-Up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving"  Emmanuel Saez
"Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement"  Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider
"The Interplay between Labor and Financial Markets: What are the Implications for Defined Contribution Accounts?"  Christian E. Weller and Jeffrey B. Wenger
"Who Should Own a Pension Surplus - Employer or Employees? An Assessment of Arguments About Asymmetry of Risks and Rewards and Deferred Wages in Pension Plans"  James A. Wooten
"'The Longest Journey, with a First Step': Bringing Coherence to Sovereignty and Jurisdictional Issues in Global Employee Benefits Law"  Paul M. Secunda
 
  06/05/08     RETIREMENT
"Ownership of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(K)-Type Plans" Craig Copeland
"A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households"  Paul A. Smith, David A. Love, and Lucy C. McNair
"The 2008 Retirement Confidence Survey: Americans Much More Worried About Retirement, Health Costs a Big Concern"  Ruth Helman, Jack VanDerhei, and Craig Copeland,
"Proposed Rebates in 2008: How Will Americans Spend Their Tax Rebate Checks?"  Leslie E. Linfield
"Life-Cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk"  Ian Ayres and Barry J. Nalebuff  
"The Impact of Individual Investment Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the United States and Germany"  Thomas Post, Helmut Gründl, Joan T. Schmit, and Anja Zimmer
 
  05/29/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Who Killed Katie Couric? And Other Tales from the World of Executive Compensation Reform"  
Kenneth M. Rosen
"Pay (Be)fore Performance: The Signing Bonus as an Incentive Device" Ed Van Wesep
"Gender and Executive Compensation in S&P Listed Firms" Walayet A. Khan and João Paulo Vieito
"Chief Executive Officer Equity Incentives and Accounting Irregularities"  Chris Armstrong,
Alan D. Jagolinzer, and David F. Larcker
 
  05/22/08     EMPLOYEES AND STOCK
"The Impact of Employee-Share-Ownership Schemes on Performance in Unionized and Non-Unionized Workplaces" Sukanya Sengupta
"Employee Capitalism or Corporate Socialism? Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership"  E. Han Kim and Paige Parker Ouimet
"Designing Robust Stock Option Plans"  Olaf Korn, Clemens Paschke and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg
"Binary Economics: The Economic Theory that Gave Rise to ESOPs"  Robert Ashford
"Why do Employees Participate in Employee Share Plans? A Conceptual Framework"  Michelle Brown, Ingrid Landau, Richard Mitchell, Ann O'Connell, and Ian Ramsay
"Neighborhood Matters: The Impact of Location on Broad Based Stock Option Plans"  Simi Kedia  and Shivaram Rajgopal
 
  05/14/08     HEALTHCARE
"Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries"  Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca and Robert J. Town,
"Modernizing Medicare: Protecting America's Most Vulnerable Patients from Predatory Health Care Marketing Through Accessible Legal Remedies"  Elizabeth Canney Borer
"Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance"  Richard Frank and Karine Lamiraud
"Findings From the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Survey"  Paul Fronstin and Sara R. Collins
"Findings from the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey: Implications for Plan Sponsors"  Richard Ostuw
"The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men"  David M. Blau and Donna B. Gilleskie
"Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption"  Sherry Glied
 
  05/08/08     RETIREMENT
"Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement"  Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles
"Mandatory Retirement and Faculty Retirement Decisions"  Robert L. Clark and Linda S. Ghent
"How Do Immigrants Fare in Retirement"  Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt
"The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior"  Eric French and
John Bailey Jones
"Housing Wealth and Retirement Timing"  Martin Farnham and Purvi Sevak
"The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data" Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
 
  05/01/08     FINANCIAL LITERACY
"Against Financial Literacy Education" Lauren E. Willis
"Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation"  Maarten Van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi, and Rob Alessie
"Do Financial Education Programs Work?" Ian Hathaway and Sameer Khatiwada
"Evidence and Ideology in Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Education"  Lauren E. Willis
"Financial Literacy and Mutual Fund Investments: Who Buys Actively Managed Funds?"  Sebastian Müller and Martin Weber
"Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs"  Annamaria Lusardi
"The Determinants of Household Risky Asset Holdings: Background Risk and Other Factors"  
Buly A. Cardak and Roger Wilkins
 
  04/24/08     PENSIONS
"To Roth or Not? - That is the Question"  Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson
"Total Individual Account Retirement Plan Assets, by Demographics, 2004"  Craig Copeland
"Applying the Reorganization Test to Pension Plans in the Aggregrate: Was the Third Circuit Correct?"  Matthew Altomare
"How Deep is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle?" Paula Lopes,Alexander Michaelides and
Joachim Inkmann
"For How Long Will Defined Benefit Liabilities Continue to Grow?" Santiago Caballero
"The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle"  Erik Hurst
"Perspectives: What Ails Public Pensions?"  Richard M. Ennis
"Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values"  Julia Lynn Coronado, Olivia S. Mitchell, Steven A. Sharpe, and S. Blake Nesbitt
 
  04/17/08     SOCIAL SECURITY
"The Impact of the Unit of Observation on the Measurement of the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly" T. Lynn Fisher
"Social Security and Retirement Decision: A Positive and Normative Approach"  Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Pierre Pestieau
"A Longitudinal Analysis of Entries and Exits of the Low-Income Elderly to and from the Supplemental Security Income Program" Todd E. Elder and Elizabeth T. Powers
"Marriage-Like Relationships' and Social Security: Retirees and the Age-Pension" Malcolm Voyce
"Estimates of Unreported Asset Income in the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly" T. Lynn Fisher
"Measuring the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly"  T. Lynn Fisher
 
  04/10/08     ERISA AND FIDUCIARY DUTY
"ERISA, Agency Costs, and the Future of Health Care in the United States"  John Bronsteen,
Brendan S. Maher, and Peter K. Stris
"Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit" EDWARD A. ZELINSKY
"Naming a Defendant in an ERISA Action" Candace Budy and Richard A. Bales,
"ERISA Pre-emption: Implications for Health Reform and Coverage"  William L. Pierron and Paul Fronstin
"Your Fiduciary Legacy"  Brooks Hamilton
 
  04/03/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Legal Institutions, Board Diligence, and Top Executive Pay"  Steffen H. Brenner and Joachim Schwalbach,
"Sued or Glued - How to Compensate the CEO?"  Rob Bauer, Robin Braun and Frank Moers
"Are Perks Excess? Evidence from the New Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules"  Yaniv Grinstein, David Weinbaum and Nir Yehuda
"Corporate Board Governance and Voluntary Disclosure of Executive Compensation Practices"  Indrarini Laksmana
"Executive Compensation Consultants in the United States and United Kingdom"  Martin J. Conyon
"Too Good to be True: Do Concentrated Institutional Investors Really Reduce Executive Compensation Whilst Raising Incentives?"  Gavin Smith and Peter L. Swan
"Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives"  Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi
 
  03/27/08     HEALTH CARE
"The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits: Will Employers Reach a Tipping Point?"  John A. MacDonald
"The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending"  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler
"Health Insurance: Market Failure or Government Failure?"  David A. Hyman
"The Patient Life: Can Consumers Direct Health Care?"  Carl E. Schneider and Mark A. Hall
"Will the Slowdown in U.S. Health Cost Growth Continue? A Factor Market Perspective"  John Sabelhaus
"Measuring Financial Protection in Health"  Adam Wagstaff
"Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Role of the States"  Arthur B. LaFrance
 
  03/20/08     RETIREMENT
"Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement"  John Bound and Timothy Waidmann
"Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement"  John Laitner and Dan Silverman
"Burnout and the Retirement Decision"  Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li
"Measuring Retirement Resource Adequacy"  Peter J. Brady
"Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel"  
Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
"Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences"  Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks
"Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies"  
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
"Hours Flexibility and Retirement"  Kerwin Kofi Charles and Philip DeCicca
 
  03/13/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives"  Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi,
"Money for Nothing and the Stocks for Free: Taxing Executive Compensation"  Meredith R. Conway
"Golden Parachute as a Compensation-Shifting Mechanism"  Albert H. Choi
"Executive Pay, Career Path and Firm Size"  Jaeyoung Sung and Peter L. Swan
"Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?"  Jie Cai and Ralph A. Walkling
"Is There a Firm-Size Effect in CEO Stock Option Grants?"  Jean Canil
"Small Chances and Large Gains: Why Riskier Companies Grant More Employee Stock Options"  Oliver G. Spalt
 
  03/06/08     SAVING
"The Flypaper Effect in Individual Investor Asset Allocation"  James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
"Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle" Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marian Wrobel
"Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?"  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
"Dealing With the Reluctant Investor: Innovation and Governance in DC Pension Investment"  
Alistair Byrne, Debbie Harrison and David P. Blake
"Investor Competence, Information, and Investment Activity"  Anders Karlsson and Lars L. Norden
"Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs"  Annamaria Lusardi
"ERISA's Participant Benefit Statement Requirements: Current Rules Under PPA '06 and a Suggested Blueprint for Future Interpretation"  Kathryn J. Kennedy
"Marital Status and Portfolio Choice"  David A. Love
 
  02/28/08     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Social Security in a Globalizing World"  K. P. Kannan
"Extending Social Security Coverage: Concepts, Global Trends and Policy Issues"  Wouter van Ginneken
"The Economic Consequences of the Welfare State"  Isabela Mares
"Dynamic Social Security: A Framework for Directing Change and Extending Coverage"  Roddy McKinnon
"Offshoring, Economic Insecurity, and the Demand for Social Insurance"  Richard G. Anderson and Charles S. Gascon
"Social Security Reform: An Analysis of the Ball/Altman Three-Point Plan"  Kathryn L. Moore
"Who Values the Social Security Annuity? New Evidence on the Annuity Puzzle"  Jeffrey R. Brown, Marcus D. Casey and Olivia S. Mitchell
 
  02/21/08     HEALTH CARE
"Gender Differences in the Valuation of Employer-Provided Health Insurance"  Nasser Daneshvary and Terrence M. Clauretie,
"Life Care Payments Vs. Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums"  Burgess J.W. Raby and William L. Raby
"Curing Healthcare"  Stuart Crainer
"Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit"  Edward A. Zelinsky
"Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance" David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein and Kathleen M. McGarry,
"Covering the Uninsured in the U.S."  Jonathan Gruber
 
  02/14/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Hands-Off Options" Jesse M. Fried
"Some Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2008" Martin Lipton
"Optimal Exercise of Executive Stock Options and Implications for Firm Cost" Jennifer N. Carpenter, Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace
"To Each According to Her Luck and Power: Optimal Corporate Governance and Compensation Policy in a Dynamic World"  Thomas H. Noe, Oxford and Michael J. Rebello
"The Road to Riches: CEO Incentives and Firm Performance"  Gavin Smith and Peter L. Swan
"CEO Centrality"  Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer
"What Do Unions Do to CEO Compensation?"  Konstantinos Tzioumis and Rafael Gomez
 
  02/07/08     RETIREMENT INCOME
"Expenditures of the Aged Chartbook"  Kimberly D. Burham
"Retirement Annuity and Employment-Based Pension Income, Among Individuals Age 50 and Over: 2006" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Who is Entitled to Survivor Benefits from ERISA Plans?" Albert Feuer
"Finances of Employee Benefits, 1950-2006"  Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets"  Motohiro Yogo
"Top Ten Myths of Social Security"  Richard L. Kaplan
"Designing a Social Security Pension System"  Robert L. Brown
"Managing the Beast: How Government Can Reduce Wealth Inequality"  Jonathan Barry Forman
"Labor-Force Participation: The Population Age 55 and Older"  Craig Copeland  
 
  01/31/08     HEALTHCARE
"On the Preference for Full-Coverage Policies: Why do People Buy Too Much Insurance?" Zur Shapira and Itzhak Venezia
"The Emerging Paradigm in the United States." Arleen Leibowitz
"Listening to Consumers: Values-Focused Health Benefits and Education" Lois A. Vitt and Ray Werntz
"How Can We Efficiently Cover the Uninsured? A Micro-Simulation Model of Health Insurance Coverage."   Asako Shimazaki
"Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?" Richard V. Burkhauser and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Right to Health - A Holistic Health Plan for the Next Administration" Barbara P. Billauer
"Death and Taxes: The Impact of Income Taxation on Health" Anca Maria Cotet
 
  01/24/08     RETIREMENT
"The Retirement Decision: Current Influences on the Timing of Retirement among Older Workers" Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsky and Ben Weitzer
"Income of the Elderly Population Age 65 and Over, 2006" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement" Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles
"Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men" John Bound and Todd R. Stinebrickner
"A Theory of Retirement" David E. Bloom, David Canning and Michael Moore
 
  01/17/08     INVESTMENT ISSUES
"Behavioral Obstacles in the Annuity Market"  Wei-Hu and Jason S. Scott
"Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance"  Zvi Bodie, Doriana Ruffino and Jonahan Treussard
"The Effects of an Optional Federal Charter on Competition in the Life Insurance Industry" Martin F. Grace and Robert W. Klein
"Revisiting U.S. Stock Market Returns: Individual Retirement Accounts"  A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris
"Optimal Gradual Annuitization: Quantifying the Costs of Switching to Annuities"  Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond Maurer and Michael Z. Stamos
"Optimizing the Equity-Bond-Annuity Portfolio in Retirement: The Impact of Uncertain Health Expenses"  Gaobo Pang and Mark J. Warshawsky
"Investment Principles for Individual Retirement Accounts"  A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris and Mary Malliaris
"PPA '06 Makes IRA Rollovers More Attractive: Maybe it's Time to Switch to a Self Direct IRA? Think Again!"  Kathryn J. Kennedy
 
  01/10/08     HEALTHCARE
"Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence."
Hanming Fang and Alessandro Gavazza
"Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll." Angus Deaton
"Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment."  Katherine Baicker and
Helen Levy
"The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits: Have Employers Reached a Tipping Point?"  
Paul Fronstin
"The Temporally-Flawed Concept of Binding Promises in American Collective Bargaining and Employee Benefits Law: A Source of the Concurrent Crises in the U.S. Industrial Relations, Retirement, and Health Care Systems."  Marley S. Weiss
"Do Consumers Purchase Too Much Health Insurance? The Role of Market Power in Health-Care Markets."  Berthold U. Wigger and Markus Anlauf
 
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