기사
Annuities and Individual Welfare /
- 개인저자
- Davidoff, Thomas ;, Brown, Jeffrey R ;, Diamond, Peter A.;
- 수록페이지
- 1573-1590 p.
- 발행일자
- 2005.12.19
- 출판사
- American Economic Association
초록
[영문]Advancing annuity demand theory, we present sufficient conditions for the optimality of full annuitization under market completeness which are substantially less restrictive than those used by Menahem E. Yaari (1965). We examine demand with market incompleteness, finding that positive annuitization remains optimal widely, but complete annuitization does not. How uninsured medical expenses affect demand for illiquid annuities depends critically on the timing of the risk. A new set of calculations with optimal consumption trajectories very different from available annuity income streams still shows a preference for considerable annuitization, suggesting that limited annuity purchases are plausibly due to psychological or behavioral biases.