Bibliografia e indice.

Preface / Anna Hedborg. 1 The status of the NDC discussion: introduction and overview / R. Holzmann, E. Palmer. 2 What Is NDC? / E. Palmer. 3 What Are NDC Systems? What Do They Bring to Reform Strategies? / Axel H. Börsch-Supan. 44 Non-Financial Defined Contribution Pensions: Mapping the Terrain / Nicholas Barr. 5 Conceptualization of Non-Financial Defined Contribution Systems / Assar Lindbeck, Peter Diamond, Salvador Valdés-Prieto. PART II. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES OF DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION. 6 Demographic Uncertainty and Evaluation of Sustainability of Pension Systems / Juha M. Alho, Jukka Lassila, and Tarmo. Valkonen, Discussant: Sergio Nisticò. 7 The Rate of Return of Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems: a more Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest /Ole Settergren and Boguslaw D. Mikula, Discussant: Ronald Lee. 8 A Market Method to Endow NDC Systems with Automatic Financial Stability / Salvador Valdés-Prieto, Discussant: Marek Góra. 9 Conversion to NDCs—Issues and Models / E. Palmer, Discussants: Marek Góra, Elsa Fornero. 10 NDCs: A Comparison of the French and German Point Systems / Florence Legros, Discussant: Marek Góra. 11 Toward a Coordinated Pension System in Europe: Rationale and Potential Structure / Robert Holzmann, Discussant: Bernd Marin. 12 NDC Pension Schemes in Middle- and Low-Income Countries / David Lindeman, David Robalino, and Michal Rutkowski, Discussants: Monika Queisser, Elaine Fultz. 13 How Much Do People Need to Know about Their Pensions and What Do They Know? / Annika Sundén, Discussant: John Ameriks. 14 Lashed to the Mast? The Politics of NDC Pension Reform / Sarah M. Brooks and R. Kent Weaver, Discussants: Daniele Franco, Agneta Kruse. PART III. LESSONS FROM COUNTRIES WITH NON-FINANCIAL DEFINED CONTRIBUTION SCHEMES. 15 NDC Strategy in Latvia: Implementation and Prospects for the Future / E. Palmer, Sandra Stabin, a, Ingemar Svensson, and Inta Vanovska. 16 The NDC System in Poland: Assessment after Five Years / Agnieszka Chlo´n-Domi´nczak and Marek Góra. 17 The NDC Reform in Sweden: The 1994 Legislation to the Present / Bo Könberg, Edward Palmer, and Annika Sundén. 18 NDCs in Italy: Unsatisfactory Present, Uncertain Future / Daniele Franco and Nicola Sartor. 19 Implementing the NDC Theoretical Model: A Comparison of Italy and Sweden. / Sandro Gronchi and Sergio Nisticò. PART IV. THE POTENTIAL OF NON-FINANCIAL DEFINED CONTRIBUTION SCHEMES IN OTHER COUNTRIES’ REFORMS. 20 Investigating the Introduction of NDCs in Austria / Bernhard Felderer, Reinhard Koman, and Ulrich Schuh. 21 the NDC Reform in the Czech Republic / Agnieszka Chlo´n-Domi´nczak and Marek Mora. 22 The German Public Pension System: How It Will Become an NDC System Look-Alike / Axel H. Börsch-Supan and Christina B. Wilke. 23 The Spanish Pension System: Issues of Introducing NDCs / Carlos Vidal-Meliá and Inmaculada Domínguez-Fabián. 24 Reforming Social Security in Japan: Is NDC the Answer? / Noriyuki Takayama.