Older Americans are a powerful force in America politics because of high participation in elections and active lobbying organisations. In addition,...

Millions of retired Americans rely on defined benefit pension plans for their financial well-being. Recent reports have noted that some plans are i...

This book is an attempt to give a global explanation to the global crisis that the Western world has been experiencing since 2007. The crisis was e...

Commenting on his collaboration with Geoffrey Brennan on THE POWER TO TAX, James M. Buchanan says that the book is "demonstrable proof of the value...

Little public data are available to assess the extent to which sponsors of defined benefit plans are offering participants immediate lump sums to r...

The private sector pension system in the United States represents trillions of dollars in assets and is a key source of financial security for mill...

Numerous empirical studies have analysed the identification and nature of the underlying process of an economic system, as well as the influence of...

A monumental work that outlines the dynamics of individual choice as it is displayed in the process of public finance. Buchanan is perhaps nowhere ...

The idea of this book is to provide insight into the composition and structure of public pension and early retirement schemes in seven European cou...

THE RATIONALE OF CENTRAL BANKING was first published in England in 1936. Vera Smith spent her professional career in a variety of research position...

Real estate valuations, which encompass appraisals and other estimation methods, have come under increased scrutiny in the wake of the recent mortg...

The turmoil in the international financial markets since the sub-prime loan crisis has had a significant effect on the real-estate investment marke...

Hedge funds were used to "hedge" or protect against loss due to market uncertainties. The business of hedge funds began to bear fruits in the mid-1...

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In response to concerns over the adequacy of retirement savings, Congress has created incentives to encourage individuals to save more for retireme...

Individual retirement accounts (IRAs), established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (PL 93-406) to promote retirement saving,...

Risk can be defined as the effect of uncertainty on objectives. It can originate from various sources. For example, uncertainty and threats from pr...

Congressional interest in the financial conditions of depository banks or the commercial banking industry has increased in the wake of the financia...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement (Enforcement) plays a key role in meeting the agency's responsibility to enf...