Lans Bovenberg

Sijbren Cnossen

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite. The issues of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and regional pollution problems. What is evident from Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World is that Coasian negotiations fail to internalize the costs of environmental degradation, often calling for public intervention through the market mechanism. In its consideration of such issues the book includes contributions on assessment problems, institutional aspects, the need for coordination and efficiency, and distribution issues.

Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World

Casper van Ewijk

Ed Westerhout

Pension systems are under serious pressure worldwide. This pressure stems not only from the well-known trend of population aging, but also from those of increasing heterogeneity of the population and increasing labour mobility. The current economic crisis has aggravated these problems, thereby exposing the vulnerability of many pension schemes to macroeconomic shocks. This book reconsiders the multi-pillar pension scheme against the background of these pressures. It adopts an integral perspective and asks how the pension system as a whole contributes to the three basic functions of pension schemes: facilitating life-cycle financial planning, insuring idiosyncratic risks and sharing macroeconomic risks across generations. It focuses on the optimal balance between the various pension pillars and on the optimal design of each of the schemes. It sketches a number of economic trade-offs, showing that countries may opt for different pension schemes depending on how they react to these trade-offs.

The Future of Multi-Pillar Pensions

Paul van Geest

Paul van Geest en Lans Bovenberg laten in ‘Kruis en munt’ zien dat de economie vandaag de dag dringend behoefte heeft aan bezinning. De mens is niet uitsluitend homo economicus, maar veel meer dan dat. De mens heeft gevoel, is inconsequent, en is vaak niet gedreven door verstandelijke overwegingen of eigenbelang maar door liefde. Econoom Lans Bovenberg laat zien dat de huidige economie gebaat is bij levensbeschouwelijke ideeën. Theoloog Paul van Geest helpt vanuit de christelijke traditie economen ‘een rijkere – meer genuanceerde – taal’ te ontwikkelen ten behoeve van de verfijning van de reflectie op economische processen.

De raakvlakken van economie en theologie

Kruis en munt

Daniel Bernardus

Manon Blanke

Would you like to build greater trust in your relationships? Discuss this book together. Trusting relationships are key to economics and life: a student wants to win a prestigious business contest with this insight, but must first prevent her team from falling apart. Discover a mirror on our way of dealing with others that is not always comfortable, but inspiring and ultimately very rewarding. Buy this book for yourself or as a gift to help people relate together more effectively.

If You Want to Go Far, Go Together

Win Win Win

Andrew Roberts

Tito Boeri

Benoit Coeure

The Geneva Reports on the World Economy series was launched by the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB) and CEPR in 1999. Each title focuses on an aspect of the reform of the international financial and economic systems and is written by a team of internationally know macroeconomists. The eighth report in the series looks at pension funds. Contributors include Tito Boeri (Bocconi University and Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti), Lans Bovenberg (Tilburg University and Netspar), Benoît Coeuré (Agence France Trésor, and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), and Andrew Roberts (Merrill Lynch).

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