Pareto-improving social security reform when financial markets are incomplete!?

American Economic Review

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 737-755

  Krueger, Dirk ^a,b   Kubler, Felix ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 33747695098     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.3.737     Document Type: Article

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