scholarly journals Pareto Improving Financial Innovation in Incomplete Markets

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Turner
1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cass ◽  
Alessandro Citanna

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Krueger ◽  
Felix Kubler

This paper studies an overlapping generations model with stochastic production and incomplete markets to assess whether the introduction of an unfunded social security system leads to a Pareto improvement. When returns to capital and wages are imperfectly correlated, a system that endows retired households with claims to labor income enhances the sharing of aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the introduction of social security represents a Pareto-improving reform, even when the economy is dynamically efficient. However, the severity of the crowding-out effect in general equilibrium tends to overturn these gains.


CFA Magazine ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Jonathan Barnes
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