Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75625 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 191
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper discusses the options for a reform of the German pension system using a model developed at CES for the German Council of economic advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Research. It is argued that the German pay-as-you-go-system is efficient in a present value sense but will nevertheless need the support of a funded system to avoid a financial crisis. The paper recommends obligatory priv ate savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen so as to stabilize the sum of this rate and the pay-as-you-go contribution rate, given the time path of pensions as defined in the present system.
Subjects: 
Pension insurance
pay-as-you-go system
savings
Germany
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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