The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe

The Varieties of Pension Governance: Pension Privatization in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ebbinghaus, Bernhard ^a,b   Wiß, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defined contribution pensions; Definedbenefit pensions; Employers; Europe; Financial crisis; Multipillar pension systems; Pension fund governance; Principal agent relations; Privatization; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921552136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586028.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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