Employer Challenges in Financing and Managing Pension Plans
Robert L. Clark and James M. Poterba, Organizers
September 17-18, 2020
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
on Zoom.us
| Thursday, September 17 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
Welcome Robert L. Clark, North Carolina State University and NBER James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
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| 2:10 pm |
Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Building Better Retirement Systems in the Wake of the Global Pandemic (background paper) (slides) |
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| 2:50 pm | Discussion | |
| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:10 pm |
Dhiren Patki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Breaking the Implicit Contract: Using Pension Freezes to Study Lifetime Labor Supply |
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| 3:30 pm |
Deborah J. Lucas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Daniel Smith, Boston College How Much Can Collective Defined Contribution Plans Improve Risk-Sharing? |
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| 3:50 pm |
Chuck Boyer, University of Chicago Public Pensions and State Government Borrowing Costs |
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| 4:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |
| Friday, September 18 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
Robert L. Clark, North Carolina State University and NBER Current Developments in Public Sector Pension Arrangements |
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| 2:45 pm | Discussion | |
| 2:55 pm | Break | |
| 3:05 pm |
Sean Myers, University of Pennsylvania Public Employee Pensions and Municipal Insolvency |
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| 3:25 pm |
Maria D. Fitzpatrick, Cornell University and NBER Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER The Prevalence of COLA Adjustments in Public Sector Retirement Plans |
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| 3:45 pm |
Laura Quinby, Boston College Gal Wettstein, Boston College Do Deferred Benefit Cuts for Current Employees Increase Separation? |
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| 4:05 pm | Discussion | |
| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |