Economic Annals 2013 Volume 58, Issue 198, Pages: 89-114
https://doi.org/10.2298/EKA1398089A
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Is there an alternative to the pay-as-you-go pension system in Serbia?
Altiparmakov Nikola (Serbian Fiscal Council, Belgrade)
International pension reform experiences indicate that, amid demographic
aging, each country needs to identify the reform policies most suited to its
own economic and social environment. The economic analysis in this paper
suggests that a potential prefunding of the Serbian pension system, either
through a public pension reserve fund or mandatory private pension funds,
would yield an economic performance inferior to the existing PAYG financing.
If a wealth transfer from current to future generations is desirable from the
macroeconomic or social perspective it should be implemented through
repayment of outstanding public debt, not through pension system prefunding.
Pension reform efforts should thus focus on parametric PAYG changes and
adequate integration of voluntary retirement saving vehicles into the Serbian
pension system.
Keywords: pension prefunding, pay as-you-go financing, capital markets