Název:
Extrapolative income expectations and retirement savings
Autoři:
Cota, Marta Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok:
2023
Jazyk:
eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 751
Abstrakt: Why do employees’ retirement contributions gradually increase throughout their careers? This paper uses a structural life-cycle model based on household expectations data to explain workers’ retirement contribution decisions. The Michigan Survey of Consumers data shows that young households extrapolate from their recent income realizations and overstate the persistence and volatility of their future income. The structural life-cycle model with extrapolative expectations quantifies the difference in retirement contribution rates compared to rational expectations. Contrary to rational workers, extrapolative workers’ contributions match the data on retirement contributions over the life cycle. Consequently, mandating automatic enrollment yields negligible effects on retirement savings.
Klíčová slova:
extrapolative expectations; forecast errors; illiquid savings Číslo projektu: LX22NPO5101 Poskytovatel projektu: GA MŠk