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Title: The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms

Author(s): Renata Bottazzi, Tullio Jappelli and Mario Padula

Publication Date: July 2009

Keyword(s): Pension Reform, Portfolio Choice and Retirement Saving

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: We estimate the portfolio effect of changes in social security wealth exploiting a decade of Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation. The Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth records detailed portfolio data and elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus allowing us to measure the expected social security wealth and to assess to what extent Italian households perceive the innovations brought about by the reforms. We find that households have responded to the cut in pension benefits mostly by increasing real estate wealth, and that the response is stronger among households that are able to estimate more accurately future social security benefits. We also compute that for the average household consumable wealth increases by 40 percent of the reduction in social security wealth.

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Bottazzi, R, Jappelli, T and Padula, M. 2009. 'The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7380