Financial Development and Pay-As-You-Go Social Security
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Paolo Pinotti
Financial markets and pay-as-you-go social security are two alternative ways to provide for retirement. The size of social security programs could therefore be partly determined by the level of financial frictions. I explore this possibility by using legal origin as a proxy for financial frictions that may hold back financial development. The empirical analysis yields two main results. First, legal origin-driven differences in financial frictions are an important determinant of social security; in particular, common law countries exhibit significantly smaller public pension programs. Second, two-stage estimates suggest that legal origin impacts on social security through financial market development.
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- Contributions Article
- Monetary Policy and Central Bank Balance Sheet Concerns
- The Transmission of Foreign Interest Rate Shocks to a Small-Open Economy: The Role of External Debt and Financial Integration
- Money and Barter under Private Information
- The Cost of Cyclical Mortality
- Interest Rate Conundrum
- Competitive Search Equilibrium with Private Information on Monetary Shocks
- Rational Inattention and Aggregate Fluctuations
- Optimal Monetary Policy in a Financially Fragile Economy
- Settlement Systems
- A Model of Sequential City Growth
- A Neoclassical Analysis of the Postwar Japanese Economy
- Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point
- Does Model Uncertainty Justify Conservatism? Robustness and the Delegation of Monetary Policy
- Can Financial Frictions Help Explain the Performance of the U.S. Fed?
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- Foreign Aid, Donor Fragmentation, and Economic Growth
- The Response of Household Expenditure to Anticipated Income Changes: Bonus Payments and the Seasonality of Consumption in Japan
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