Financial Development and Pay-As-You-Go Social Security

Paolo Pinotti

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2009, vol. 9, issue 1, 21

Abstract: Financial markets and pay-as-you-go social security are two alternative ways to provide for retirement. The size of social security programs could therefore be partly determined by the level of financial frictions. I explore this possibility by using legal origin as a proxy for financial frictions that may hold back financial development. The empirical analysis yields two main results. First, legal origin-driven differences in financial frictions are an important determinant of social security; in particular, common law countries exhibit significantly smaller public pension programs. Second, two-stage estimates suggest that legal origin impacts on social security through financial market development.

Keywords: social security; financial development; legal origin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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