Abstract
Pension funds face macro-longevity risk or uncertainty about future mortality rates. We analyze macro-longevity risk sharing between cohorts in a pension scheme as a risk management tool. We show that the optimal risk-sharing rule and the welfare gains from risk sharing largely depend on the retirement age policy. In case of a fixed retirement age welfare gains from sharing macro-longevity risk measured on a 10-year horizon are between 0.1 and 0.3 percent of certainty equivalent consumption after retirement for each cohort. By contrast, if the retirement age is fully linked to changes in life expectancy, welfare gains are substantially higher. In this case the risk bearing capacity of workers is particularly large because their labor supply acts as a hedge against macro-longevity risk. As a result, workers absorb risk from retirees in the optimal risk-sharing rule, thereby increasing the welfare gain for each cohort up to 1.8 percent in the Lee-Carter mortality model and up to 2.9 percent in
the Cairns-Blake-Dowd model.
the Cairns-Blake-Dowd model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 440-458 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Insurance: Mathematics and Economics |
Volume | 99 |
Early online date | 1 Nov 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2021 |
JEL classifications
- d61 - "Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis"
- j26 - "Retirement; Retirement Policies"
- g22 - "Insurance; Insurance Companies"
- j32 - "Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Private Pensions"
Keywords
- macro-longevity risk
- retirement age
- risk sharing
- welfare analysis
- MORTALITY
- Retirement age
- SOCIAL-SECURITY
- RETIREMENT
- Risk sharing
- DEMOGRAPHY
- MODEL
- CHOICE
- Macro-longevity risk
- Welfare analysis
- Pension plans
- LIFE