| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5069262 | Finance Research Letters | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We compare alternative drawdown strategies in retirement to a life annuity benchmark when retirees have access to government means-tested Age Pension. By adopting Epstein-Zin utility preferences which enables disentangling relative risk aversion (RRA) from elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS), our results suggest that retirees possess RRA levels which are higher than the inverse of EIS. This is evidenced by their preference of phased drawdown strategies to annuitisation, providing an alternative explanation to the annuity puzzle.
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Authors
Osei K. Wiafe, Anup K. Basu, John Chen,