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Challenges facing public retirement plans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2016

ROBERT L. CLARK
Affiliation:
Robert Clark is Stephen Zelnak Professor, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
JOSEPH P. NEWHOUSE
Affiliation:
Joseph Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Introduction
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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References

1 A series of conferences organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research with support from the Smith Richardson Foundation has significantly increased the research on public retirement plans. Papers from previous conferences have appeared in special issues of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (April 2011)Google ScholarPubMed, the Journal of Public Economics (August 2014)Google ScholarPubMed, and the Journal of Health Economics (December 2014)Google ScholarPubMed.

2 These papers were first presented at an NBER conference in April 2015 which was supported in part by funds from the Smith Richardson Foundation.

3 Government Accountability Office, ‘Pension Plan Valuation: Views on Using Multiple Measures to Offer a More Complete Financial Picture,’ September 2014, GAO Report No. 14-264.