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A model of the French pension reserve fund: what could be the optimal contribution path rate?

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  • BERGER, CHARLIE
  • LAVIGNE, ANNE

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Current and expected demographic and economic trends are likely to jeopardize the financial sustainability of the French retirement pension scheme, which mainly operates on a pay-as-you-go basis. In 1999, the French government set up a Pension Reserve Fund (Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, FRR) the main objective of which was to introduce some public funding in the PAYG basic pension scheme to cope with its expected financial unsustainability within the next decade. This paper presents some simulation results on the projected evolution of the French Pension Reserve Fund under various assumptions. The main idea is to optimize the profile of the trend in contribution rates needed to meet the objective of a balanced basic pension scheme over the period 2006–2050. Our simulations show that under plausible assumptions the amount of funding is likely to be less important than the Government expected at the FRR set up, about 100 billion euros. Some stress tests show that severe shocks on financial markets may dramatically affect the funding profile of the FRR beyond 2045.

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  • Berger, Charlie & Lavigne, Anne, 2007. "A model of the French pension reserve fund: what could be the optimal contribution path rate?," Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(3), pages 233-250, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jpenef:v:6:y:2007:i:03:p:233-250_00
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    4. Castañeda, Pablo & Castro, Rubén & Fajnzylber, Eduardo & Medina, Juan Pablo & Villatoro, Félix, 2021. "Saving for the future: Evaluating the sustainability and design of Pension Reserve Funds," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
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    6. Frédéric Gannon & Florence Legros & Vincent Touzé, 2020. "Sustainability of pension schemes. Building a smooth automatic balance mechanism with an application to the us social security," Revue de l'OFCE, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 0(6), pages 377-401.

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