| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w16453
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 16453
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| Policy Options for State Pension Systems and Their Impact on Plan Liabilities |
| Joshua Rauh; Robert Novy-Marx
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| 发表日期 | 2010-10-14
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We calculate the present value of state pension liabilities under existing policies, and separately under policy changes that would affect pension payouts including cost of living adjustments (COLAs), retirement ages, and buyout schedules for early retirement. Liabilities if plans were frozen as of June 2009 would be $3.2 trillion if capitalized using taxable municipal curves, which credit states for a possibility of default in the same states of the world as general obligation debt, and $4.4 trillion using the Treasury curve. Under the typical actuarial method of recognizing future service and wage increases, liabilities are $3.6 trillion and $5.2 trillion using municipal curves and Treasury curves respectively. Compared to $1.8 trillion in pension fund assets, the baseline level of unfunded liabilities is therefore around $3 trillion under Treasury rates. A one percentage point reduction in COLAs would reduce total liabilities by 9‐11%, implementing actuarially fair early retirement could reduce them by 2‐5%, and raising the retirement age by one year would reduce them by 2‐4%. Even relatively dramatic policy changes, such as the elimination of COLAs or the implementation of Social Security retirement age parameters, would leave liabilities around $1.5 trillion more than plan assets under Treasury discounting. This suggests that taxpayers will bear the lion's share of the costs associated with the legacy liabilities of state DB pension plans. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics
; Financial Institutions
; Public Economics
; National Fiscal Issues
; Subnational Fiscal Issues
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16453
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574127
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Joshua Rauh,Robert Novy-Marx. Policy Options for State Pension Systems and Their Impact on Plan Liabilities. 2010.
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