Social Security and the Failure of Annuity Markets

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Social Security and the Failure of Annuity Markets

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Peter Townley
Robin Boadway

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Robin W. Boadway

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This paper investigates the effect of asymmetric information on the annuities market when individuals differ in the probability of dying. Individual behaviour under live-insured and term-insured annuities is investigated. Unlike well-known results of Rothschild and Stiglitz, if an equilibrium exists, it must be a pooling equilibrium. Given the same information as the private sector, a planner can achieve an optimum under certain circumstances.

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Paper provided by Queen's University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 652.

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Date of creation: 1986
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- Townley, Peter G. C. & Boadway, Robin W., 1988. "Social security and the failure of annuity markets," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 75-96, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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