Probleme einer steigenden Lebenserwartung in der privaten Rentenversicherung: Theorie und Empirie für Deutschland

Johannes Leinert and Gert Wagner

No 258, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: An unexpected increase in life expectancy has implications for private pensions (annuities). These can be offset by reducing pension payments, cross-subsidization of the pension payments, risk-taking of insurance companies or combining these policies. An empirical study of the German market of annuities shows that most of the companies under investigation dealt with the problem of an unexpected increase of life expectation in the 90ies by significant cross-subsidization of the pension payments from young policy holders. This paper discusses the implications such polices can have when the importance of private pensions increases in the future. Eine unerwartet steigende Lebenserwartung führt bei privaten kapitalgedeckten Rentenversicherungsverträgen zu sinkenden Rentenzahlungen und/oder einer Belastung des Versicherungsunternehmens, das verschiedene Möglichkeiten hat, dieser Belastung zu entgegnen. Für Deutschland wird anhand der Umstellung der Rechungsgrundlagen auf die Sterbetafel DAV 1994 R gezeigt, dass es zu einer nicht unbeträchtlichen Quersubventionierung der Rentenbezieher durch die jüngeren Versicherten kam. Diese Quersubventionierung wird im Hinblick auf die steigende Bedeutung privater Altersvorsorge diskutiert.

JEL-codes: G2 H55 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 p.
Date: 2001
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.38584.de/dp258.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp258

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bibliothek ().