El presente documento constituye el informe final del Centro de Microdatos del Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile, que ha desarrollado el estudio actuarial correspondiente al año 2005.

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La Reforma Previsional recientemente aprobada introduce una serie de medidas que aumentan la competitividad con que opera la industria de AFP. Este artículo resume el análisis realizado en la elaboración y diseño de tales medidas, partiendo por un diagnóstico acabado del nivel de competencia de la industria de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP), y que incluye una descripción de su...

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Como parte de la reforma previsional aprobada recientemente en Chile, el gobierno introdujo un mecanismo centralizado de subasta para el Seguro de Invalidez y Sobrevivencia (SIS) que cubre parte importante de los más de 8 millones de participantes en el sistema privado de pensiones obligatorias. Este documento es un estudio de caso que presenta las principales distorsiones que se encontraron en la...

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In a defined contribution pension system based on individual accounts information is essential, as plan members are responsible for taking actions in order to avoid undesirable low levels of pension income during retirement. In this paper we use a unique natural experiment to analyze the impact of information on savings decisions. In 2005, Pension Fund Administrators started sending out a...

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We propose alternative methods to project pension rights and implement them in Chile and Uruguay and partially in Argentina. We use incomplete work histories databases from the social security administrations to project entire lifetime work histories. We first fit linear probability and duration models of the contribution status and dynamic linear models of the income level. We then run Monte...

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Este artículo presenta los principales riesgos que se enfrentan en un sistema de capitalización individual y describe la regulación que en el caso de Chile permite mitigarlos. Uno de los principales riesgos que se enfrentan se refiere al de inversión de los fondos, respecto del cual se analiza el sustento que puede tener una estrategia de inversión de ciclo de vida. Al evaluar estas estrategias se...

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As part of the pension reform recently approved in Chile, the government introduced a centralized auction mechanism to provide the Disability and Survivors (D&S) Insurance that covers recent contributors among the more than 8 million participants in the mandatory private pension system. This paper is intended as a case study presenting the main distortions found in the decentralized operation of...

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This paper studies the relation between institutional investors and capital market development by analyzing unique data on monthly asset-level portfolio allocations of Chilean pension funds between 1995 and 2005. The results depict pension funds as large and important institutional investors that tend to hold a large amount of bank deposits, government paper, and short-term assets; buy and hold...

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This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program. This is a unique, innovative program that combines social insurance through a solidarity fund (SF) with self-insurance in the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional unemployment insurance programs. Our...

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Emerging economies have tried to promote long-term debt because it reduces maturity mismatches and the probability of crises. This paper uses unique evidence from the leading case of Chile to study to what extent domestic institutional investors hold longterm instruments. We compare monthly asset-level portfolios of Chilean institutional investors (mutual funds, pension funds, and insurance...

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