Pension reform as the triumph of form over substance

Economists' Voice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kotlikoff, Laurence J ^a,b,c  

^a USA

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Economic Security Planning

Author keywords

Fiscal policy; Pension reform; Social security

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949206229     PISSN: 15533832     EISSN: 15533832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1307     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Green, Jerry and Laurence J. Kotlikoff (2006) "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," working paper. Available at: http://people. bu.edu/kotlikof/General%20Relativity%206-10-061.pdf. (Giving a general proof of the invariance of fiscal policy to its labeling.)
2. Kotlikoff, Laurence J. (2006) "Averting America's Bankruptcy with a New New Deal," The Economists' Voice, 3(2): Art. 5. Available at: http://www.bepress.cpm/ev/vol3/iss2/art5.
3. Sinha, Tapen (2000) Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Raising similar concerns to those raised in my parable.)