Pension System Project

Project Overview

This page contains my work on pension systems, focusing on pension system theory and pension reform proposals.

Papers & Documents

Pension Reform Proposal

Reform Proposal English

Pension reform proposal including reasoning. Also available as an explanatory video in German.

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Video (German)

Resolving Aaron's Social Insurance Paradox

Academic Paper English

A theoretical analysis and resolution to Aaron's Social Insurance Paradox in pension economics.

video, arXiv, reviews

Nonfinancial Defined Return (NDR) Pension Framework

Academic Paper English

A new perspective on pension system sustainability, introducing the Nonfinancial Defined Return (NDR) framework for pension systems.

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Published as: Drees, M.: Nonfinancial Defined Return (NDR) Pension Framework and a New Perspective on Pension System Sustainability (2024). In: Christina Benita Wilke (Ed.) Pension Reforms in the Nordic Countries and Germany, Conference Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Meeting of the German Society for Demography (DGD) by the Working Group on Demographic and Social Developments. (link)

Entgeltpunktprinzip

Technical Document German

A detailed analysis of the German pension system's point-based calculation method.

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Vorschlag für eine grundlegende Rentenreform

Reform Proposal German

A proposal for reforming the German pension system (short and old version).

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