Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311901 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] European Actuarial Journal [ISSN:] 2190-9741 [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 607-635
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Standard economic models of rational decision making provide information on how people should decide. In practice, human decisions are influenced by numerous behavioral patterns that lead to systematic deviations from rationally optimal behavior. In the context of retirement savings, this can result in substantial pension gaps, and hence in a reduction of the standard of living in the retirement phase. The aim of this work is to introduce a general framework to (simultaneously) assess and evaluate the objectively rational utility and the subjectively perceived attractiveness. We illustrate the approach by means of an application to retirement savings products. Such a combined approach can help to identify or design retirement savings products that create a high (albeit not the maximum possible) objective utility while at the same time being subjectively of high (albeit not maximum possible) attractiveness. We argue that a focus on such products might lead to improved consumer decisions compared to observed decisions that are often driven by subjective attractiveness (resulting in rather low objective utility).
Subjects: 
Retirement savings
Old-age provision
Utility maximization
Behavioral insurance
Prospect theory
Simultaneous evaluation
JEL: 
D14
G11
G22
G41
J26
J32
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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