Optimal portfolio choice over the life cycle with flexible work, endogenous retirement, and lifetime payouts

Review of Finance

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 875-907

  Chai, Jingjing ^a   Horneff, Wolfram ^a   Maurer, Raimond ^a   Mitchell, Olivia S ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 80054075366     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfr016     Document Type: Article

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