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  12/19/2002     ANNUITY ISSUES
"An Evolving Pension System: Trends in Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans" David Rajnes
"A Federal Charter Option for Insurance Companies: Lessons from the Bank Experience" Lissa Lamkin Broome
"The Transformation of the U.S. Financial Services Industry, 1975-2000: Competition, Consolidation and Increased Risks" Arthur E. Wilmarth
"The History of Annuities in the United States" James M. Poterba
"Annuities Markets Around the World: Money's Worth and Risk Intermediation" Estelle James and Xue Song
"The Moral Hazard of Insuring the Insurers" Brian Hall and James G. Bohn
"Developments in Decumulation: The Role of Annuity Products in Financing Retirement" Olivia S. Mitchell
 
  12/05/2002     HEALTHCARE COVERAGE
"Changes in Insurance Coverage: 1994-2000 and Beyond" John Holahan and Mary Beth Pohl
"Consumer-Driven Health Benefits: A Continuing Evolution?" Jim Jaffe
"Employer Attitudes and Practices Affecting Health Benefits and the Uninsured" Rachel Christensen, Paul Fronstin, Karl Polzer and Ray Werntz
"Job-Based Health Benefits In 2002: Some Important Trends" Jon Gabel, Larry Levitt, Erin Holve, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore and Kelley Dhont
"Working on the Puzzle: Health Care Coverage for Low-Wage Workers" Louise G. Trubek
"Employee Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage" David M. Cutler
"Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?" M. Kate Bundorf and Mark V. Pauly
 
  11/21/2002     INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
"The Borders of Solidarity: How Countries Determine the Public/Private Mix in Spending and the Impact on Health Care"  Colleen Flood, Mark  Stabile and Carolyn J. Hughes Tuohy
"Gender Differences in Early Retirement Behaviour" Svenn Aage Dahl, Oivind Anti Nilsen, and  Kjell Vaage
"Social Security and Gender: Brazilian and World Practices" Kaizo I. Beltrao, Maria S. Novellino, Francisco Eduardo Barreto de Oliveira and Andre C. Medici
"From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia" Adriana Debora Kugler
"Effects of Old-Age Insurance on Female Retirement: Evidence from Cross-Country Time-Series Data" Richard Johnson
"Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada" Jeremiah Hurley, Rheme Vaithianathan, Thomas F. Crossley and Deborah Cobb-Clark
 
  11/07/2002     THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM ON THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS LAW
"A Primer on the Taxation of Executive Deferred Compensation Plans" Kathryn J. Kennedy
"Another Look at 401(k) Plan Investments in Employer Securities" Susan J. Stabile
"Pension Simplification" David A. Pratt
"Phased Retirement Programs for the Twenty-First Century Workplace" Pamela Perun
"Women and Pension Reform: Economic Insecurity and Old Age" Lorraine A. Schmall
 
  10/24/2002     FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES
"Reflections on the New Psychological Contract and the Ownership of Human Capital" Catherine L. Fisk
"Regulation and the Globalization (Americanization) of Executive Pay" Brian R. Cheffins and Randall S. Thomas
"Life-Cycle Finance in Theory and in Practice" Zvi Bodie
"A Survey of Behavioral Finance" Nicholas Barberis and Richard H.Thaler
"The Influence of Pensions on Behavior: How Much Do We Really Know?" Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"The Impact of Employee Stock Options on the Evolution of Compensation in the 1990s" Hamid Mehran and Joseph Tracy
 
  10/10/2002     DISABILITY BENEFITS
"Disability Income: Voluntary Employment-Based Plans"  Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Disability, the Supreme Court, and Equal Protection: Standing at the Crossroads of Progressive and Retrogressive Logic in Constitutional Classification" Anita Silvers and Michael Stein
"The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment"  David Autor and Mark G. Duggan
"Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy" J. Michael Orszag and Dennis J. Snower
"Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision" Jonathan Gruber and Jeffrey D. Kubik
"The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity" John Bound, Julianne B. Cullen, Austin Nichols and Lucie Schmidt
"Retiring Together or Working Alone: The Impact of Spousal Employment and Disability on Retirement Decisions" Richard W. Johnson and Melissa Favre
 
  9/26/2002     ERISA AND TAX ISSUES
"The Cost and Duration of Cash-Balance Pension Plans" David Brown, Philip H. Dybvig and William J. Marshall
"Consumers Versus Managed Care: The New Class Actions" Clark C. Havighurst
"Value of Benefits Constant in a Changing World: Findings from the 2001 EBRI/MGA Value of Benefits Survey" Rachel Christensen
"Split Dollar Arrangements: A Beleaguered Technique" Mary Ann Mancini
"Judicial Standard of Review in ERISA Benefit Claim Cases" Kathryn J. Kennedy
"Does the Balance of Power Within a Family Matter? The Case of the Retirement Equity Act" Saku Aura
 
  9/12/2002     COMPANY STOCK
"Employee Stock Ownership in Economic Transitions: The Case of United Airlines" Jeffrey N. Gordon
"Company Stock and Retirement Plan Diversification" Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkas
"Investor Behavior and the Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans - The Importance of Plan Design" Nellie Liang and Scott J. Weisbenner
"Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Restructuring: Myths and Realities" Myron S. Scholes and Mark A. Wolfson
"Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance" Douglas L. Kruse and Joseph Blasi
"Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence" Martin Conyon and Richard B. Freeman
 
  8/29/2002     CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
"Defined Contribution Plans With Rate-of-Return Guarantees" David Rajnes
"What Enron Means for the Management and Control of the Modern Business Corporation: Some Initial Reflections" Jeffrey N. Gordon
"Annuities for an Ageing World" Olivia S. Mitchell and David Glen McCarthy
"Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life" Kerwin K. Charles
"Compensation and Recruiting: Private Universities Versus Private Corporations" Bradford Cornell
"Does It Pay to Work?" Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Alexi Sluchynsky
 
  8/15/2002     HEALTH BENEFITS
"Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States" Thomas C. Buchmueller, John Dinardo and Robert G. Valletta
"The Role of Tax Subsidies in the Market for Health Insurance" Mark Stabile
"A Temporary Fix? Implications of the Move Away from Comprehensive Health Benefits"  Laura Tollen and Robert M. Crane
"Individual Insurance: How much Financial Protection does it Provide?" Jon Gabel, Kelley Dhont, Heidi Whitmore and Jeremy Pickreign
"HIPPA on Privacy: Its Unintended and Intended Consequences" Richard A. Epstein
"The Family Medical Leave Act: Reinstatement Following Leave: How to Cope from an Employer's Perspective" Mary Jean Geroulo
"The Interaction of Partial Public Insurance Programs and Residual Private Insurance Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Program" Amy Finkelstein"
 
  8/01/2002     SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
"Assessing the Plans Proposed by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security" Peter A. Diamond and Peter Orszag
"Income of the Retired Population" Ken McDonnell
"The New Social Security Commission Personal Accounts: Where Is the Investment Principal?" Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"Social Security and the Private Pension System: The Significance of Integrated Plans" Pamela Perun
"Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions" Jeff Dominitz,  Charles F. Manski and Jordan Heinz
"Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma" Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser
 
  7/18/2002     INTERNATIONAL AGING
"Early Retirement Programs and Wage Restraint: Empirical Evidence from France"  David M. Gray
"Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change" Rafael LaLive and Josef Zweimueller
"The Costs of Early Retirement in the OECD" Tryggvi Herbertsson and Michael Orszag
"Elderly in the Labor Market" Ana Amtlia Camarano Mello Moreira
"Health and Work of the Elderly" Maarten Lindeboom and Marcel Kerkhofs
 
  6/20/2002     SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE LONG RUN
"The Social Security Surplus, the Trust Fund, and the Federal Budget" Alan D. Viard
"Social Insecurity? The Effects of Equity Investments on Social Security Finances"  Amy Rehder Harris, Noah Meyerson and Joel Smith
"Social Security: Unemployment and Immigration" Craig Copeland
"Demographic Shock and Social Security: A Political Economy Perspective" Georges Casamatta, Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau
"The Political Economy of Structural Pension Reform" Estelle James and Sarah Brooks
"Junior Must Pay: Pricing the Implicit Put in Privatizing Social Security" George M. Constantinides, John B. Donaldson and Rajnish Mehra
"Social Security and Democracy" Casey B. Mulligan, Ricard Gil and Xavier Sala-I-Martin
 
  6/06/2002     PAY POLICIES
""Mitigating the Pain of Equity Compensation in a Down Market" Michael E. Mooney
"Managerial Remuneration: The Indirect Pay-for-Performance Relation" Joseph A McCahery and Luc D. R. Renneboog
"Entrenchment and Severance Pay in Optimal Governance Structures" Andres Almazan and Javier Suarez
"The Price of Doing Good: Executive Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations" Peter Frumkin and Elizabeth K. Keating
"Do Underwater Executive Stock Options Still Align Incentives? The Effect of Stock Price Movements on Managerial Incentive-Alignment" Li Jin and Lisa K. Meulbroek
"Restoring the Link Between Pay and Performance: Evaluating the Costs of Relative-Performance-Based (Indexed) Options" Lisa K. Meulbroek
 
  5/23/2002     CURRENT ISSUES
"Distinguishing Risk: The Disparate Tax Treatment of Insurance and Financial Contracts in a Converging Marketplace" David S. Miller
"Why Social Preferences Matter - The Impact of Non-Selfish Motives on Competition, Cooperation and Incentives" Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher
"Company Stock in Pension Plans: How Costly Is It?" Lisa K. Meulbroek
"For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior" James J. Choi, David I. Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick
"Early Retirement" Jan H.M. Nelissen
"Minimum Standards and Insurance Regulation: Evidence from the Medigap Market" Amy Finkelstein
"Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan" John Ameriks, Andrew Caplin and John V. Leahy
 
  5/09/2002     PREPARING FOR RETIREMENT
"Pension Participation: February 2001" Craig Copeland
"Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family" Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" Esther Duflo and Emmanuel Saez
"The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample" Dora L. Costa
"The Intergenerational State: Education and Pensions" Michele Bouldrin and Ana Montes
"Shrinking Labor Forces and Early Retirement" Tryggi Thor Herbertsson
"Longevity and Life Cycle Savings" David E. Bloom, Dave Canning and Bryan S. Graham
 
  4/25/2002     HEALTHCARE
"Consumer Health Care Finances and Education: Matters of Values" Lois A. Vitt, Jurg K. Siegenthaler, Linda Siegenthaler, Deanna M. Lyter, and Jamie Kent
"Toward Full Mental Health Parity and Beyond" Daniel P. Gitterman, Roland Sturm and Richard M. Scheffler
"Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature" Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian
"Why Did Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rise?" Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight
"The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S.Health Insurance" Melissa A. Thomasson
"Health Care Costs, Wages, and Aging" Louise Sheiner
"How Demographic Change Will Drive Benefits Design" Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi
 
  4/11/2002     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"The Metamorphosis of 'Germany Inc.': The Case of Executive Pay" Brian R. Cheffins
"An Empirical Examination of the Role of the CEO and the Compensation Committee in Structuring Executive Pay" Ronald Craig Anderson and John Bizjak
"Should Shareholders Have a Greater Say over Executive Pay?: Learning from the US Experience" Brian R. Cheffins and Randall S. Thomas
"Has Pay for Performance Gone Awry? Views from a Corporate Governance Forum" Stuart L. Gillan
"Executive Compensation: Six Questions that Need Answering" John Maron Abowd and David S. Kaplan
"Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?" Lucian Arye Bebchuck, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
"Merger Activity and Executive Pay" Sourafel Girma, Steve Thompson and Peter Wright
 
  3/28/2002     INVESTING AND OUTCOMES
"Psychological Foundations of Incentives" Ernst Fehr and Armin Falk
"Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance" James J. Choi, David I. Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick
"Regulating Securities Professionals: Emotional and Moral Aspects of Fiduciary Investing" Peter H. Huang
"Conditional Performance Measurement Using Portfolio Weights: Evidence for Pension Funds" Wayne E. Ferson and Kenneth Khang
"Making Economic Sense Out of Unisex Life Insurance (Or the Difference Between Cost and Value and Why It Matters to Real People)" Richard A. Booth
"Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions: The Option to Buy-Back a Defined Benefit Promise" Marie-Eve Lachance and Olivia S. Mitchell
 
  3/14/2002     INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
"The Long-run Effects of the Italian Pension Reforms" Nicola Sartor
"The Reform of Pension Systems: Winners and Losers Across Generations in the United Kingdom and Germany" David Miles and Andreas Iben
"Pension Prefunding, Aging, and Demographic Uncertainty" Jukka Lassila and Tarmo Valkonen
"How Can China Solve its Old Age Security Problem? The Interaction Between Pension, SOE and Financial Market Reform" Estelle James
"Financing Retirement in the European Union" A. Lans Bovenberg
"Strengthening Employment-Based Pensions in Japan" Olivia S. Mitchell and Robert L. Clark
 
  2/28/2002     TO WORK OR RETIRE?
"What Keeps Pensioners at Work in Russia: Evidence from Household Panel Data" Alexandre Kolev and Anne Pascal
"Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?" Orley Ashenfelter and David Card
"Incentives to Retire Later - A Solution to the Social Security Crisis?" Friedrich Breyer and Mathias Kifmann
"How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?" Sewin Chan and Ann Huff Stevens
"Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement" Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and David N. Weil
"Why Some Workers Remain in the Labor Force Beyond the Typical Age of Retirement" John B. Williamson and Tay K. McNamara
 
  2/14/2002     THE COSTS OF HEALTH
"First, Do No Harm: Designing Tax Incentives for Health Insurance" Leonard E. Burman and Amelia Gruber
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2001 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Financing Long-Term Care in the United States: Who Should Pay for Mom and Dad?" Richard L. Kaplan
"Retiree Health Benefits: Trends and Outlook" Paul Fronstin
"Taxes and Health Insurance" Jonathan Gruber
"Learning and the Value of Information: The Case of Health Plan Report Cards" Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Dennis P. Scanlon
 
  1/31/2002     PENSION FINANCE ISSUES
"The Next Generation of Index-Trackers: Exchange-Traded Funds and the Investment Duties of Fiduciaries" Paul Usman Ali and Martin L. Gold
"International Pension Swaps" Zvi Bodie and Robert C. Merton
"Wealth Effects of Banks' Rights to Market and Originate Annuities" Arnold R.Cowan, Jann C. Howell and Mark L. Power
"The German Social Market in the World of Global Finance: Pension Investment Management and the Limits of Consensual Decision Making" Gordon Leslie Clark, Daniel Mansfield and Adam Tickell
"How Much is Investor Autonomy Worth?" Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
"Behavioral Finance and Investor Governance" Lawrence A. Cunningham
 
  1/17/2002     SAVING FOR RETIREMENT
"Characteristics of Individual Retirement Account Owners" Craig Copeland
"Contribution Behavior of 401(k) Plan Participants" Jack Vanderhei and Sarah Holden
"Who Takes Advantage of Tax-Deferred Saving Programs? Evidence from Federal Income Tax Data" David Joulfaian and David P. Richardson
"Life-Cycle Saving, Limits on Contributions to DC Pension Plans, and Lifetime Tax Benefits" Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Mark J. Warshawsky
"The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro and Micro Evidence"  James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise
"Savings of Young Parents"  Ricardo Cossa, Erin L. Krupka and Annamaria Lusardi
 


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