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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: An American Perspective I

Martin Feldstein

Introduction: A European Perspective 9

Horst Siebert

1. Pensions and Contemporary Socioeconomic Change 19

Assar Lindbeck

Discussion Summary

2. Different Approaches to Pension Reform from an Economic Point of View 49

Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise

Comment: Herbert Hax

Discussion Summary

3. Labor Mobility, Redistribution, and Pension Reform in Europe 85

Alain Jousten and Pierre Pestieau

Comment: Michael Burda

Discussion Summary

4. France: The Difficult Path to Consensual Reforms 109

Didier Blanchet and Florence Legros

Comment: Martine Durand

Discussion Summary

5. The German Pension System: Status Quo and Reform Options 137

Bert Riirup

Comment: Axel Bbrsch-Supan

Discussion Summary

6. Swedish Pension Reform: How Did It Evolve, and What Does It Mean for the Future? 171

Edward Palmer

Comment: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Discussion Summary

7. Italy: A Never-Ending Pension Reform 211

Daniele Franco

Comment: Franco Peracchi

Discussion Summary

8. Prefunding in a Defined Benefit Pension System: The Finnish Case 263

Jukka Lassila and Tarmo Valkonen

Comment: Reijo Vanne

Discussion Summary

9. Pension Reform: Issues in the Netherlands 291

Jeroen J. M. Kremers

Comment: A. Lans Bovenberg

Discussion Summary

10. The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch

from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 317

David Blake

Comment: Andrew A. Samwick

Discussion Summary

11. Poland: Security through Diversity 349

Jerzy Hausner

12. The Hungarian Pension Reform: A Preliminary

Assessment of the First Years of Implementation 365

Roberto Rocha and Dimitri Vittas

13. Romania's Pension System: From Crisis to Reform 401

Georges de Menil and Eytan Sheshinski

Comment (on chaps. 11, 12 and 13): John McHale

Discussion Summary (for chaps. 11, 12 and 13)

14. Recent Developments in Old Age Pension Systems: An International Overview 439

Klaus-Jiirgen Gem

Appendix: OECD Statistical and Analytical

Information on Aging 479.