承诺与部分天真:退休账户的提前取款罚金

Commitment and partial naïveté: Early withdrawal penalties on retirement accounts

Journal of Mathematical Economics · 2023
被引 17 · 同刊同年前 3%
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

研究了在部分天真(低估未来自我现时偏差)的跨期自我冲突模型中,提高流动性差的资产(如退休账户)的提前取款罚金如何通过收入和替代效应影响当前自我的福利,发现罚金增强并不总是提升福利。

Abstract

We analyze a portfolio allocation problem in a standard model of conflict within temporal selves who suffer from partial naïveté – the current self holds a deterministic but possibly wrong perception (underestimation) about the present bias of her future selves. The current self can invest in a liquid and a longer-maturity, illiquid asset; the latter offers partial commitment since the future self may prematurely liquidate it at a penalty rate. If the cost is prohibitive, no liquidation happens, and the first-best plan laid out by the current self is followed. When such costs are modest, raising them has countervailing income and substitution effects. Consequently, in a range, a strengthening of the commitment device of illiquidity is not necessarily welfare increasing for the current self.

部分天真现时偏向提前支取罚金退休账户承诺机制