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  12/13/2001     CURRENT ISSUES
"Pegram v. Herdrich: On Peritonitis, Preemption, and the Elusive Goal of Managed Care Accountability" Peter J. Hammer
"Defined Contribution Health Benefits" Paul Fronstin
"Defined Contribution Health Benefits: The Next Evolution?" Steve Blakely
"Employee Benefits Considerations in Joint Ventures" Susan Serota
"Phased Retirement: Leaving the Labor Force" David Rajnes
 
  11/29/2001     FINANCING RETIREMENT: RESEARCH FROM THE TIAA-CREF INSTITUTE
"Portfolio Choice in Retirement Accounts: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data from TIAA-CREF" John Ameriks and Stephen P. Zeldes
"How Do Household Portfolio Shares Vary With Age?" John Ameriks and Stephen P. Zeldes
"Financial Education and Retirement Savings" Robert L. Clark, Madeleine D'Ambrosio and Paul W. Mulvey
"Making Retirement Income Last a Lifetime" John Ameriks, Robert Veres and Mark J. Warshawsky
"The Response of TIAA-CREF Participants to Software-driven Asset   Allocation Guidance" John Ameriks
"The Market for Individual Life Annuities and the Reform of Social Security: An Update and Further Analysis" Mark J. Warshawsky
 
  11/15/2001     BUFFALO LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM:  PENSION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT LAW
"Striking a Balance in the Cash Balance Plan Debate" Regina T. Jefferson
"Is Cross-Testing a Mistake? Cash Balance Plans, New Comparability Formulas, and the Incoherence of the  Nondiscrimination Norm" Edward A. Zelinsky
"Cross-Tested Defined Contribution Plans: A Response to Professor  Zelinsky" Peter Orszag and Norman P. Stein
"Cross-Testing, Nondiscrimination, and New Comparability: A Rejoinder to Mr. Orszag and Professor Stein" Edward A. Zelinsky
"'The Most Glorious Story of Failure in the Business': The  Studebaker-Packard Corporation and the Origins of ERISA" James A. Wooten
"Nor Rhyme Nor Reason: Simplifying Defined Contribution Plans" David A. Pratt
"The Limits of Saving" Pamela Perun
 
  11/01/2001     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Litigating Challenges to Executive Pay: An Exercise in  Futility?"  Randall S. Thomas and Kenneth J. Martin
"Executive Compensation and Executive Contributions to Corporate PACs"  Kathleen A. Farrell, Philip Hersch and Jeffry Netter
"Raids, Rewards, and Reputations in the Market for CEO Talent" Charles J. Hadlock and C. Edward Fee
"Has the Use of Peer Groups Contributed to Higher Levels of  Executive Compensation?" John M. Bizjak, Michael L. Lemmon and Lalitha Naveen
"Should Shareholders have a Greater Say over Executive Pay?:
Learning from the US Experience"  Brian R. Cheffins and Randall S. Thomas
"Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey" Wayne R. Guay, John E. Core and David R. Larcker
 
  10/18/2001     PUBLIC PENSION PLANS
"Of What Value are Shareholder Proposals Sponsored by Public  Pension Funds?" Andrew K. Prevost and Ramesh P. Rao
"Investment Practices of State and Local Pension Funds:  Implications for Social Security Reform"  Annika E. Sunden and Alicia H. Munnell
"State and Local Retirement Plans: Innovation and Renovation" David Rajnes
"Public Pensions and the Uniform Management of Public Employee
Retirement Systems Act" Steven L. Willborn
"Public Pension Fund Activism and Firm Performance" Sunil Wahal
"Institutional Investor Activism: Follow the Leaders?" Catherine M. Daily, Jonathan L. Johnson, Alan E. Ellstrand and Dan R. Dalton
"Public Sector Pension Governance and Performance"  Olivia S, Mitchell and Ping Lung Hsin
 
  10/04/2001     INTERNATIONAL PENSION ISSUES
"Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform" Holger Bonin
"Social Security Transition in Italy: Costs, Distortions and
(Some) Possible Corrections" Pier Marco Ferraresi and Elsa Fornero
"European Pensions and Global Finance: Continuity or
Convergence?" Gordon Leslie Clark
"Social Security and Retirement in Japan" Takashi Oshio and Naohiro Yashiro
"Policy Options and Issues in Reforming European Supplementary Pension Systems" Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson and Michael Orzag
The Maturation of Canada's Retirement Income System: Income
Levels, Income Inequality and Low Income Among the Elderly" John Myles
 
  9/20/2001     THE FUTURE OF ERISA?
"The Changing Face of Private Retirement Plans" Jack Vanderhei and Craig Copeland
"ERISA at 25 - and Its Most Persistent Problem" Jeffrey Brauch
"The Taxation of Retirement Saving: Choosing Between Front-Loaded
and Back-Loaded Options" Leonard Burman, William Gale and David Weiner
"ERISA at 50: A New Model for the Private Pension System" Pamela Perun and C. Eugene Steuerle
"The Consequences of Population Aging on Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets" Sylvester Schieber and John Shoven
 
  9/06/2001     SOCIAL SECURITY:  CAN THE PROMISES BE KEPT?
"Privatizing Social Security: Administration and Implementation" Karen Burke and Grayson McCouch
"Social Security Reform Issues" Craig Copeland
"Social Security: Can the Promise be Kept?" Edward Gramlich
"What Can We Learn from Other Countries About the Why's and How's
of Individual Accounts in the U.S.?" Estelle James
"Privatization: Not the Answer for Social Security Reform" Regina Jefferson
"ERISA Protections Provide Guidance for Social Security Privatization" Ian Lanoff and Roberta Ufford
"Partial Privatization of Social Security and Private Pensions" Kathryn Moore
"Social Security: The Broader Issues" C. Eugene Steuerle
"Leverage, Linkage, and Leakage: Problems with the Private Pension System and How They Should Inform the Social Security Reform Debate" Norman Stein
 
  8/22/2001     EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS
"Tax Treatment of Employee Stock Options in Mergers and  Acquisitions" J. Shane Starkey
"Having Your Options and Eating Them Too: Fences, Zero-Cost  Collars and Executive Share Options" Paul Usman Ali and Geof Stapledon
"ISOs Meet the AMT: Employees Ambushed by the Tax Code" Robert Sommers
"The Effect of Employee Stock Options on the Evolution of Compensation in the 1990s" Hamid Mehran and Joseph Tracy
"Accounting for the Tax Benefits of Employee Stock Options and  Implications for Research" Terry Shevlin and Michael Hanlon
"Employee Stock Ownership vs. Profit Sharing" Rick Harbaugh
 
  8/09/2001     HEALTH BENEFITS
"Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends and Outlook"  Paul Fronstin
"Counting the Uninsured: A Comparison of National Surveys" Paul Fronstin
"Managed Care Liability for Breach of Fiduciary Duty after Pegram  v. Herdrich" Thomas Mclean and Edward Richards
"Pegram and Preemption: Patients' Rights and the Case for Doing Nothing" Edward Zelinsky
"Health Benefits and Wages: Minimizing the Total Cost of  Compensation" Nolan Miller
"The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance Than Wage Earners. So What?" Craig Perry and Harvey Rosen
"Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States"  Thomas Buchmueller, John Dinardo and Robert Valletta
 
  7/27/2001     SOCIAL SECURITY: IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES FOR INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS
"The Challenge to Financial Regulators Posed by Social Security Privatization" Roberta Karmel
"Multiple Choices: Property Rights and Individual Accounts" Pamela Perun
"Options for Administering Individual Accounts in Social Security" Lawrence Thompson
"Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments: What is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System?" Estelle James, Gary Ferrier, James Smalhout and Dimitri Vittas
"The False Promise of Social Security Privatization" Jeffrey Miron and Kevin Murphy
"Social Security Reform: Implications for Women" John Williamson and Sara Rix
 
  6/21/2001     WORKERS COMPENSATION
"Deregulating Property - Casualty Insurance Pricing: The Case of Workers' Compensation" Anthony Barkume and John Ruser
"The Illusion of Efficiency in Workers' Compensation 'Reform'" Martha McCluskey
"Rate Regulation, Safety Incentives, and Loss Growth in Workers' Compensation Insurance" Scott Harrington and Patricia Danzon
"Trends in Common Law Remedies for Work Injuries in Australia: An Examination of the Process and Principles" Robert Guthrie
"Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the 'Monday Effect'" David Card and Brian McCall
"Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?" Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor
 
  6/07/2001     GENDER AND PENSION
"Employer Provided Pension Data in the NLS Mature Women's Survey and in the Health and Retirement Study" Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"Women on Savings and Retirement: Results From the 2000 Women's  Retirement Confidence Survey" Teresa Turyn and Ruth Helman
"Women and Pensions: A Decade of Progress?"  Vickie Bajtelsmit and Nancy Jianakoplos
"The Gender Gap in Pension Wealth: Is Women's Progress in the Labor Market Equalizing Benefits?" Richard Johnson
"Husbands & Wives, Dangerousness & Dependence: Public Pensions in  the 1860s-1920s" Susan Sterett
"The Political Feasibility of Increasing Retirement Age: Lessons from a Ballot on Female Retirement Age" Monika Butler
 
  5/24/2001     PENSION FINANCE
"Employees, Pensions, and the New Economic Order" Jeffrey Gordon
"Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap: A Revisionist View of  Turn-of-the-Century American Retirement" Susan Carter and Richard Sutch
"Longevity-Insured Retirement Distributions from Pension Plans: Market and Regulatory Issues" Jeffrey Brown and Mark Warshawsky
"The Design and Production of New Retirement Savings Products" Zvi Bodie and Dwight Crane
"Pension Fund Capitalism: A Causal Analysis" Gordon Clark
"Retirement Investing: A New Approach" Zvi Bodie
 
  5/10/2001     SOCIAL SECURITY:  ISSUES OF PRIVATIZATION
"Administering Individual Accounts in Social Security: The Role  of Values and Objectives in Sharing Options" Lawrence Thompson
"Evaluating the Archer-Shaw Social Security Proposal" Craig Copeland
"Privatizing Public Pension Systems: Lessons for the United  States from Latin America" John Williamson
"Social Security Privatization: Lessons from the United Kingdom" John Williamson
"The Effects of Social Security Reform on Saving, Investment, and  the Level and Distribution of Worker Well-Being"  Gary Burtless and Barry Bosworth
 
  4/26/2001     401(K) INVESTING
"The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior" Brigitte Madrian and Dennis Shea
"The Effects of 401(K) Plans on Household Wealth: Differences Across Earnings Groups" Eric Engen and William Gale
"Do Spouses Coordinate their Investment Decisions in Order to Share Risks?" Cori Uccello
"Portfolio Choice, Trading, and Returns in a Large 401(k) Plan" Julie Agnew, Pierluigi Balduzzi and Annika Sunden
"Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans" James Choi, David Laibson and Andrew Metrick
"401(k) Plan Asset Allocation, Account Balances, and Loan Activity in 1999" Sarah Holden and Jack Vanderhei
 
  4/12/2001     HEALTHCARE
"How Elastic is the Firm's Demand for Health Insurance?" Jonathan Gruber and Michael Lettau
"Medicaid" Jonathan Gruber
"The Economic Costs of the Uninsured" Steve Blakely
"Small Employers and Health Benefits: Findings from the 2000 Small Employer Health Benefits Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2000 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Are Employers Good Agents for Their Employees?" Pamela Peele, Judith Lave, Jeanne Black and John Evans
 
  3/29/2001     CURRENT CONTROVERSIES
"Do Pension Plans with Participant Investment Choice Teach  Households to Hold More Equity?" Scott Weisbenner
"The Limits of Saving" Pamela Perun
"Cash Balance Pension Plan Conversions" Jon Barry Forman and Amy Nixon
"Age Discrimination in Cash Balance Plans: Another View" Michael Francese, Robert Newman and Richard Shea
"Fiduciary Status as an Employer's Shield: The Perversity of  ERISA Fiduciary Law" Dana Muir
"Estimates of the Tax Subsidy for Employment-Related Health Insurance" Thomas Selden and John Moeller
 
  3/15/2001     SPECIAL ISSUE ON SOCIAL SECURITY:  BEGINNING THE DEBATE
"Pensions, Social Security, and the Distribution of Wealth"  Arthur Kennickell and Annika Sunden
"What People Don't Know About Their Pensions and Social Security" Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?" Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
"The Economics of Social Security Reform" Peter Diamond
"Social Security Money's Worth" John Geanakapolos Olivia Mitchell and Stephen Zeldes
"Sharing the Pain of Social Security and Medicare Reform" Lawrence Thompson
 
  3/01/2001     IRAS
"Asset Allocation: IRAs and 401(k)-Type Plans" Craig Copeland
"IRA Assets Continue to Grow" Craig Copeland
"The Roth IRA Cuts Federal Revenues, With No Benefit to Taxpayers" Michael Waggoner
"The Curious Evolution of Individual Retirement Accounts" Richard Kaplan
"Modeling IRA Accumulation and Withdrawals" John Sabelhaus
 
  2/15/2001     SOCIAL SECURITY
"The Effects of Social Security Reform on Private Pensions" Andrew Samwick
"The Implications of Social Security's Long-Range Financial Projections"  Lawrence Thompson
"Matching Private Savings with Federal Dollars: USA Accounts and Other Subsidies for Saving" Pamela Perun
"Taxability of Social Security Benefits After the Repeal of the Earnings Test" Nathan Oestreich
"Analysis of Current Social Security Reform Proposals" Andrew Lyon and John Stell
 
  2/01/2001     MANAGED CARE AND MANDATED BENEFITS
"The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions and the Patient's Bill of Rights"  Richard Epstein and
Alan Sykes
"From YUPPIES to GUPPIES: Unfunded Mandates and Benefit Plan Regulation" Dana Muir
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Mandated Benefit Laws" Gail Jensen and Michael Morrisey
"Applying Fiduciary Duties in the Managed Care Context" Peter Jacobson and Michael Cahill
 
  1/18/2001     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Regulating Executive Pay: Using the Tax Code to Influence CEO Compensation" Nancy Rose and Catherine Wolfram
"What's In It For Me? Personal Benefits Obtained By CEOs Whose  Firms Are Acquired" Jay Hartzell, Eli Ofek and David Yermack
"The Taxation of Executive Compensation" Brian Hall and Jeffrey Liebman
"Executive Compensation" Kevin Murphy
"CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How" Michael Jensen and Kevin Murphy
 


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