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  12/18/2003     HEALTHCARE
"Contracting with Limited Commitment: Evidence from Employment-Based Health Insurance Contracts" Keith J. Crocker and John Moran
"Uninsured Rose in 2002 as Number of Americans With Employment-Based Health Benefits Declined" Paul Fronstin
"The Impact of State Managed Care Liability Statutes" Mark A. Hall and Gail B. Agrawal
"What if You Could Sue Your HMO? Managed Care Liability Beyond the ERISA Shield" Gail B. Agrawal and Mark A. Hall
"Informal Information Sharing and the Demand for Health Insurance Among the Elderly" John Moran, Jeffrey D. Kubik and Eldar Beiseitov
"Health Plan Conversions: Are They in the Public Interest?" Nancy D. Beaulieu
"Health Insurance Coverage and the Macroeconomy" John Cawley and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men" David M. Blau and Donna B. Gilleskie
 
  12/04/2003     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND PAY
"Golden Parachute as a Compensation Shifting Mechanism" Albert H. Choi
"Code Sec. 72(t) and Substantially Equal Periodic Payments - Part I"  William J. Stecker
"Severance Pay and the Imposition of FICA or SE Tax" Burgess J. W. Raby and William L. Raby
"Incentive Stock Options and the Alternative Minimum Tax: The Worst of Times" Francine J. Lipman
"Board Structure and Executive Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence from Hospitals" James A. Brickley, R. Lawrence Van Horn and Gerard J. Wedig
"Do Executives Perform for Pay?" Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferreira
 
  11/20/2003     CURRENT EVENTS
"Tax as Gatekeeper: Why Company Stock is Not Worth the Money"  Maureen Cavanaugh
"The Influence of Regular Work Systems on Compensation for Contingent Workers" Brenda Lautsch
"Deferred Compensation Nonqualified Employee Benefits - Their Global Effect - Part I" Lawrence L. Bell
"Labour Market Transitions and the Erosion of the Fordist  Lifecycle: Discarding Older Workers in the Automobile  Manufacturing and Banking Industries in the United States"  Jill Quadagno, Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg
"Performance-Based Compensation in Professional Service Firms" Christopher D. Ittner, David F. Larcker and Mina Pizzini
"The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future Fiscal Policies" Katharine Grace Carman, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
"Welfare Reform and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Income Families" Robert Kaestner and Neeraj Kaushal
"A Comparison of Options, Restricted Stock, and Cash for Employee Compensation" Paul E. Oyer and Scott Schaefer
 
  11/06/2003     PENSION PLANS
"Cash Balance Plans and the Distribution of Pension Wealth" Richard W. Johnson and Cori E. Uccello
"EBRI Research Highlights: Retirement Benefits" Kenneth J. McDonnell and Craig Copeland
"Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism'" Colin F. Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George F. Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
"Findings from the 2003 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) and Minority RCS" Variny Paladino and Ruth Helman
"Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Determinants of Participation and Contributions Rates" Gur Huberman, Sheena Sethi-Iyengar and Wei Jiang
"Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure" Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
"Company Stock in 401(k) Plans" Gur Huberman and Paul F. Sengmueller
"Phasing Into Retirement"  Steven G.Allen, Robert L. Clark and Linda Ghent
"Did Pension Plan Accounting Contribute to a Stock Market Bubble?" Julia Lynn Coronado and Steven A. Sharpe
 
  10/23/2003     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Accounting for Social Security and Its Reform" Howell Edmunds Jackson
"Alternative Approaches to Judicial Review of Social Security Disability Cases" Paul Verkuil and Jeffrey S. Lubbers
"The Hidden Public Pension Obligations in Six European States: A Generational Accounting Perspective" Paul J. M. Klumpes
"Social Security, Retirement, and the Single-Mindedness of the Electorate" Casey B. Mulligan and Fransesc Xavier Sala-I-Martin
"Demographics and Volatile Social Security Wealth: Political Risks of Benefit Rule Changes in Germany" Christoph Borgmann and Matthias Heidler
"Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security" Alan L. Gustman adn Thomas Steinmeier
"Do Workers with Low Lifetime Earnings Really Have Low Earnings Every Year? Implications for Social Security Reform" Thomas L. Hungerford
 
  10/09/2003     HEALTHCARE ISSUES
"The Onset of Health Problems and the Propensity of Workers to Change Employers and Occupations" Jodi Messer Pelkowski and Mark C. Berger
"Health Insurance Costs and Early Retirement Decisions" Richard W. Johnson, Amy J. Davidoff and Kevin Perese
"ERISA Takes a Drubbing: Rush Prudential and its Implications for Health Care" E. Haavi Morreim
"Evidence-Based Medicine: Implications for Consumer-Driven Health Benefits" Jim Jaffe
"The Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans" Sean Nicholson, M. Kate Bundorf, Rebecca M. Stein and Daniel Polsky
"The Effects of Offering Health Plan Choice within Employment-Based Purchasing Groups" M. Kate Bundorf
 
  9/25/2003     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"The Relation Between Insider-Trading Restrictions and Executive Compensation" Darren T. Roulstone
"Stock Options for Tax-Exempt Organization Managers?" David I. Walker
"Taxing Compensatory Partnership Options" Karen C. Burke
"Executive Compensation and Analyst Guidance: The Link Between CEO Compensation and Expectations Management" Guido Bolliger and Manuel Kast
"Executive Remuneration in the EU: Comparative Law and Practice" Guido Alessandro Ferrarini, Niamh Moloney and Cristine Vespro
"Incentive Compensation for Bank Directors: The Impact of Deregulation" David A. Becher, Terry L. Campbell and Melissa Frye
"UK Executive Compensation Practices: New Economy vs. Old Economy" Konstantinos Stathopoulos, Susanne K. Espenlaub, and Martin Walker
"Executive Compensation, Political Economy, and Managerial Control: The Transformation of Managerial Incentive Structures and Ideology, 1950-2000" Ernie Englander and Allen Kaufman
 
  9/11/2003     RETIREMENT ISSUES
"Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2001Survey of Consumer Finances" Craig Copeland
"The Impact of Pension Funding on State Government Finances" J.Fred Giertz
"Dividing Retirement Assets in Divorce" Linda Russano Morra
"Pension Fund Governance and the Choice Between Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans" Timothy J. Besley and Andrea Prat
"Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts" James M. Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven F.Venti and David A.Wise
"Pension Reform in Germany: The Impact on Retirement Decisions" Axel H. Borsch-Supan and Barbara Berkel
"The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries" Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson
"Changes in the Process of Aging During the Twentieth Century: Findings and Procedures of the Early Indicators Project" Robert W. Fogel
 
  8/28/2003     HEALTH ISSUES
"A Comparison of the USA Health Care Effort with other OECD Countries" Eduard Gracia and Joan Fil Trasfi
"National Health Spending up 8.7 Percent Between 2000-2001; Spending for Health Care Will Continue to Grow" Paul Fronstin
"EBRI Research Highlights: Health Benefits" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance and What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?" Helen Levy and ThomasC.Deleire
"Quality and Employers' Choice of Health Plan" Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Catherine G.McLaughlin and Teresa A. Gibson
"Tax Credits and the Use of Medical Care" Michael Smart and Mark Stabile
"Who Gets Health Care?" Robert W. Fogel and Chulhee Lee
"The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staffing Arrangements" Susan N. Houseman
 
  8/14/2003     COMPENSATION ISSUES
"Further Evidence on Compensation Committee Composition as a Determinant of CEO Compensation" Nikos Vafeas
"Aligning Incentives with Equity: Employee Stock Options and Rule 10b-5" Matthew Bodie
"Six Challenges in Designing Equity-Based Pay" Brian Hall
"Investment in Employee Stock Ownership Plans Clarified Through Recent Developments" Gregory K. Brown and Jeffrey M. Johns
"Executive Loans" Kuldeep Shastri and Kathleen M. Kahle
"The Trouble with Stock Options" Brian Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
"Output-Based Pay: Incentives, Retention or Sorting?" Edward P. Lazear
 
  7/31/2003     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Sustainable Social Security: What Would it Cost?" Ronald D. Lee and Hisashi Yamagata
"Social Security Actuarial Balance and the Labor Force Participation Rate" Craig Copeland
"Fiscal Effects of Social Security Reform in the United States" Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber
"'Will Social Security be there for You?': How Americans Perceive their Benefits" Jeff Dominitz, Jordan Heinz and Charles F. Manski
"Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?" Kent Smetters
"Evaluating the Effects of the Removal of the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000" Jae G. Song
"Social Security and Democracy" Casey B. Mulligan, Ricard Gil and Xavier Sala-I-Martin
 
  7/17/2003     HEALTH LAW AND ECONOMICS
"The Struggle over Employee Benefits: The Role of Labor in Influencing Modern Health Policy" David  Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
"Employers' Benefits from Workers' Health Insurance" Ellen O'Brien
"The Invention of Health Law" M.Gregg Bloche
"Voices Unheard: Barriers to Expressing Dissatisfaction to Health Plans"  Mark Schlesinger, Shannon M. Mitchell and Brian Elbel
"The Rise and Fall of Managed Care: A Predictable 'Tragic Choices' Phenomenon" David Orentlicher
"A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits" Joni Hersch
"The Effect of Private Insurance on Measures of Health: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study" Avi Dor, Joseph J. Sudano and David W. Baker
"Cicio v. Does, 2003 U.S.App.LEXIS 2925 (2d Cir. 2/11/03) - Can We Extricate Ourselves from the Supreme Court's Quagmire of ERISA  Remedies?" Mark D. Debofsky
 
  6/19/2003     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Explaining the International CEO Pay Gap: Board Capture or Market Driven?" Randall S. Thomas
"Executive Compensation and Corporate Fraud" Shane A. Johnson, Harley E. Ryan and Yisong Sam Tian
"Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets" Patrick Bolton, Jose A. Sheinkman and Wei Xiong
"When is Enough, Enough? Market Reaction to Highly Dilutive Stock Option Plans and the Subsequent Impact on CEO Compensation" Kenneth J. Martin and Randall S. Thomas
"Executive Compensation and Managerial Risk-Taking" Jeffrey L. Coles, Naveen D. Daniel and Lalitha Naveen
"Independent Directors, Executive Pay, and Firm Performance" Kam-ming Wang
"Executive Pay: Prior Successes and Future Incentives" Christian Lukas        
 
  6/05/2003     RETIREMENT ISSUES
"Federal Tax Policy, Employer Matching, and 401(k) Saving:  Evidence from HRS W-2 Records" Christopher R. Cunningham and Gary V. Engelhardt
"The Evolving Concept of 'Retirement': Looking Forward to the Year 2050" James H. Schulz
"ERISA's Top-Hat Exemption: A Primer" Edward J. Rayner
"Budgeting and Monitoring Pension Fund Risk" William F. Sharpe
"401(k) Plan Asset Allocation, Account Balances, and Loan  Activity in 2001" Sarah Holden and Jack Vanderhei
"Employment-Based Retirement and Pension Plan Participation:  Geographic Differences and Trends" Craig Copeland
"Will Today's Workers Retire with Adequate Income? How are Today's Retirees Surviving from a Financial Perspective?" Jim Jaffe
"Reality Testing for Pension Reform" Pamela Perun and C. Eugene Steuerle    
 
  5/22/2003     PAPERS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, PART III
"Changing Family Structure and Social Security Reform" Yung-Ping Chen
"Defined Benefit Plans in an Era of Phased Retirement" Aliya Wong
"An Individual's Chosen Retirement Age: When is the Economically Feasible Retirement Age Chosen Over the Anchor Provided by Known Others?" Linda Smith Brothers
"The Role of Multiemployer Defined Benefit Plans in an Era of Phased Retirement" Denise M. Clark
"The Pattern and Consequence of Survivorship Provisions in Public Retirement Plans: Comparison of Britain, U.S., and Germany" Karen Holden and Meeryoung Kim    
 
  5/08/2003     INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
"Old Age Protection in India: Problems and Prognosis" Ranadev Goswami
"Income Security for Older People: An Asian Perspective" R. K. A. Subrahmanya
"Healthcare Financing Reform and the New Single Payer System in The Republic of Korea: Social Solidarity or Efficiency?" Soonman Kwon
"Canadian Retirement Savings Plans and Italian Pension Reform" Joel Fried and Francesca Arnaboldi
"Pensions and Retirement Incentives. A Tale of Three Countries:  Italy, Spain and the USA" Agar Brugiavini, Franco Peracchi and David A. Wise
"Pension Reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s" Richard F. Disney, Carl Emmerson and Sarah Smith
"The Implications of an Ageing Population for the UK Economy" Garry Young
 
  4/24/2003     PAPERS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, PART II
"Alternatives for Providing Family Retirement Benefits in Social Security and Employer Sponsored Pension Plans" Anna N. Rappaport and Manha Yau
"Policy Implications of Aging for Canadian Health Care and Retirement Programs" Doug Andrews
"Labor Force Trends and Future Social Security Benefits" David H. Pattison
"Financial Analysis on Retirement Implications for Women" Lorrie L. Hoffman and Lijia Guo
"A Macroeconomic Indicator of Age at Retirement" Robert L. Brown, Robin Damm and Ishmael Sharara
"Gradual Retirement: An Additional Option in Work and Retirement" Yung-Ping Chen and John C. Scott
 
  4/10/2003     PAPERS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, PART I
"Protecting Participants and Beneficiaries in a Phased Retirement World" Patricia Scahill and Jonathan Barry Forman
"What Can Americans Do About Aging?" Thornton Parker
"Financial Education and Retirement Savings" Robert L. Clark and Madeleine D'Ambrosio
"Qualified Pension Plans and Health Care for the Elderly: The Perfect Macroeconomic Immunized Portfolio" Robert L. Brown
"A Dynamic Social Security System in Unison with Demographic and Lifestyle Changes" Chiu-Cheng Change
"Can Latin American Experience Teach us Something about Privatized Pensions with Individual Accounts?" Tapen Sinha
 
  3/27/2003     COST OF HEALTH BENEFITS
"Retiree Health Benefits: Savings Needed to Fund Health Care in Retirement" Paul Fronstin and Dallas L. Salisbury
"Inside the Sausage Factory: Improving Estimates of the Effects of Health Insurance Expansion Proposals" Sherry A. Glied, Dahlia Remler and Joshua Graff Zivin
"Small Employers and Health Benefits: Findings from the 2002 Small Employer Health Benefits Survey" Paul Fronstin and Ruth Helman
"Medicare, Retirement Costs, and Labor Supply at Older Ages" Richard W. Johnson
"Exploring the Health-Wealth Nexus" Jonathan Meer, Douglas L. Miller and Harvey S. Rosen
"Subsidies to Employee Health Insurance Premiums and the Health Insurance Market" Jonathan Gruber and Ebonya L. Washington
"The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases" Dana P. Goldman, Arleen Leibowitz and Neeraj Sood  
 
  3/14/2003     INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
"Tax-preferred Savings Accounts and Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence on RRSP Participation"  Kevin Milligan
"The Global Retirement Crisis" Richard Jackson
"Incentives to Contributing to Supplementary Pension Funds: Going Beyond Tax Incentives" Clara Busana Banterle
"Pension Funds in France: Still a Dead End?" Anne Lavigne
"The Role of the Senior HR Executive in Japan and the United States: Companies, Countries, and Convergence" Sanford M. Jacoby and Kazuro Saguchi
"Ageing and the Tax Implied in Public Pension Schemes: Simulations for Selected OECD Countries" Robert Fenge and Martin Werding
"Public Saving and Policy Coordination in Ageing Economies" Martin Floden  
 
  2/27/2003     HEALTH ISSUES
"Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision" Jonathan Gruber and Jeffrey D. Kubik
"Education Versus Savings as Explanations for Better Health:  Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey" Richard Ippolito
"Disability and Employment: Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Reporting Errors" Brent Kreider and John V. Pepper
"Portfolio Choice and Health Status" Harvey S. Rosen and Stephen Wu
"Incorporating Psychosocial Variables Into Health Care Policy: A  Behavioral Economic Examination of Medicaid Expansion" Barak D. Richman
"Health Policy Roundtable" Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
"Price and Spouse's Coverage in Employee Demand for Health Insurance" Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig
 
  2/13/2003     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Should Directors Reduce Executive Pay?" Randall S. Thomas
"Restructuring Charges and CEO Cash Compensation: A  Reexamination" Davit Adut, William M. Cready and Thomas J. Lopez
"Managerial Pay and Governance in American Nonprofits" Kevin F. Hallock
"Dividend Payout and Executive Compensation in US Firms" Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya, Amin Mawani and Cameron K. J. Morrill
"Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation" Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
"Incentives in the Firm and the Roots of Capitalist Myopia" Prashant Hemkant Deshpande
"Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem" Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
 
  1/30/2003     TAX AND ERISA ISSUES
"Can 401(k) Accumulations Generate Significant Income for Future Retirees?" Sarah Holden and Jack Vanderhei
"Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private-Sector Employers" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Integrating the Tax Burdens of the Federal Income and Payroll Taxes on Labor Income" Deborah A Geier
"Removal of the ERISA Preemption Shield: Will the Third Circuit's Approach Make a Difference? In re U.S. Healthcare, Inc." Deborah J. Massaro
"Another ERISA Twist: The Mysterious Case of Pegram and the  Missing Fiduciary" E. Haavi Morreim
"What ERISA Means by 'Equitable': The Supreme Court's Trail of  Error in Russell, Mertens and Great-West" John H. Langbein  
 
  1/16/2003     CURRENT ISSUES
"The Cost of Pension Insurance" Steven Boyce and Richard Ippolito
"A Strategy for Active Ageing" Alan C. Walker
"The Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing Industry: The  BP-Exult Partnership" Paul S. Adler
"Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share of GDP Risen So Much?" Charles I. Jones
"Retirement and the Stock Market Bubble" Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro  Estimation" Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise
 


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