Funding of pensions and economic growth: are they really related?*

Eelco Zandberg and Laura Spierdijk

Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2013, vol. 12, issue 2, 151-167

Abstract: We examine whether changes in the degree of pension funding affect economic growth. Our sample consists of 54 countries, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as well as non-OECD, during 2001–10. We do not find any effect of changes in the degree of funding on growth in the short-run. For the long-run the evidence is mixed. Although a growth model with overlapping observations suggests that there is a positive effect of funding changes on economic growth, we find no effect in a simple cross-sectional model.

Date: 2013
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