El artículo examina la trayectoria de la reforma del bienestar en Alemania y en los cuatro países del Sur de Europa: España, Italia, Grecia y Portugal. El análisis del cambio institucional comprende las transformaciones producidas en las dos últimas décadas, incluyendo los periodos anterior y posterior a la crisis económica y financiera de 2008. La pregunta de investigación es si la reforma ha...
Firms have attempted to de-risk their pension obligations by offering its pension beneficiaries a lump-sum distribution instead of the guaranteed payments to be paid to retirees in a defined benefit pension plan. We examine the stock market reaction to the announcement of these offerings using event study methodologies. We find a statistically significant positive cumulative abnormal returns for...
Despite the decades of international climate negotiations and several landmark agreements, global efforts to date to restrict fossil fuel production in line with climate targets have been unsuccessful. As national and international policies continue to fall short of phasing out fossil fuels, increasing attention has been paid to non-state actors, like pension funds, as a potential source of more...
