Active vs. Passive decisions and crowd-out in retirement savings accounts: Evidence from Denmark

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1141-01219

  Chetty, Raj ^a   Friedman, John N ^a   Leth Petersen, Søren ^b   Nielsen, Torben Heien ^b   Olsen, Tore ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Centre for Applied Microeconometrics NBER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL SERVICES; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC SPENDING; RETIREMENT; SAVINGS; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

DENMARK;

EID: 84905675446     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju013     Document Type: Article

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