Securing Lifelong Retirement Income

This book is essential reading for policy-makers trying to obtain an international context into which they can place their own retirement income market, and for academics who are looking for an introduction to retirement-income markets and the prominent researchers in this field. * David McCarthy, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance *

Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and the Chair of the Department of Insurance and Risk Management; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council; and Director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research at the Wharton School. Her areas of research and teaching are private and public insurance, risk management, public finance and labor markets, and compensation and pensions, with a US and aninternational focus. She received the Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. John Piggott is Professor of Economics in the Australian School of Business, University of NewSouth Wales, where he also heads up the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research. His research examines economic and financial aspects of population aging. He received the Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London. Noriyuki Takayama is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research with the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. His research interests include intergenerational economic issues, public and private pensions, and household saving and wealth formation. He receivedthe Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.