Papers presented at a NBER conference held in Islamorala, Florida, January, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Asset allocation and risk allocation: can Social Security improve its future solvency problem by investing in private securities? -- The transition to investment-based social security when portfolio returns and capital profitability are uncertain -- The effect of pay-when-needed benefit guarantees on the impact of Social Security privatization -- Can market and voting institutions generate optimal intergenerational risk sharing? -- The Social Security Trust Fund, the riskless interest rate, and capital accumulation -- Social Security and demographic uncertainty: the risk-sharing properties of alternative policies -- The risk of Social Security benefit-rule changes: some international evidence -- Financial engineering and Social Security reform -- The role of real annuities and indexed bonds in an individual accounts retirement program -- The role of international investment in a privatized social security system -- Investing retirement wealth: a life-cycle model