The Effects of Investing Social Security Funds in the Stock Market When Fixed Costs Prevent Some Households from Holding Stocks

Andrew Abel ()

No 7739, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: With fixed costs of participating in the stock market, consumers with high income will participate in the stock market, but consumers with lower income will not participate. If a fully-funded defined-contribution social security system tries to exploit the equity premium by selling a dollar of bonds per capita and buying a dollar of equity per capita, consumers who save but do not participate in the stock market will increase their consumption, thereby reducing saving and capital accumulation. Calibration of a general equilibrium model indicates that this policy could reduce the aggregate capital stock substantially, by about 50 cents per capita.

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Date: 2000-06
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Published as "The Effects of Uncertainty on Investment and the Expected Long-Run Capital Stock", JEDC, Vol. 7, no. 1 (1984): 39-54.

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