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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"401(k) plans"”.
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Behavioral Aspects of Retirement Savings: How do 401(K) Plans Affect Household Asset Accumulation?
The nature of employee retirement plans has changed dramatically over the past fifteen years as employers have been replacing traditional defined benefit retirement plans with defined contribution plans like the 401(k) plan. This dissertation is focused on the impact that 401(k) plan have on …
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Pensions, corporate finance, and public policy
… the funding rules for defined benefit pension plans in order to identify the dependence of corporate investment on internal financial resources. Capital expenditures decline with mandatory pension contributions, even when allowing for very generalized correlations between the pension funding …
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Essays in Household and Behavioral Finance
… variation in the default asset allocation of 401(k) plans. We estimate that absent participation frictions, 94% of investors would prefer holding stocks in their retirement accounts, with an equity share of retirement wealth that declines over the life cycle. We use this variation to estimate …
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Pre- and post-retirement asset allocation: a simulation of retirement investment strategies for agricultural producers
… Accounts (IRAs), Simplified Employee Pension Plans (SEPs), and 401(k) plans. Investment strategies reflect the producer's preference for investing in conservative, balanced, or aggressive assets, or a combination of these assets. Further, these scenarios are examined for three methods of …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… that dollars paid in employer contributions to 401(k) plans have nearly double the effect on a firm's recruiting success than dollars paid in wages. However, the effect is driven primarily by high-income and higher-age occupations. We use two novel instruments to identify the results: 1) IRS …