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The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income Clark, Gordon L., Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford Munnell, Alicia H., Peter F. Drucker Professor, Carroll School of Management, and Director of the Centre for Retirement Research, Boston College Orszag, J. Michael, Head of Global Research Services and Chairman of the Global Research Committee of Watson Wyatt Worldwide Print publication date: 2006 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927246-4 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
11 Funding, Saving, and Economic Growth doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199272464.003.0011 E. Philip Davis Yu-Wei Hu Abstract: Introduction – Saving and Funding – Wider Impacts on Financial Markets – Pension Funding and Labor Markets – Funding and Growth – Conclusions Keywords: retirement, financial, financial market, growth, market, retire, economic growth,
Yu-Wei Hu is currently studying for a Ph.D. in economics at Brunel University, UK. Prior to that, he received a master's degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Leeds, UK. His current research deals with the extent to which pension reform, pension-fund growth, economic growth, and financial development are linked together across both OECD countries and emerging market economies. In addition, issues on pension fund investment and regulations are investigated, with a particular focus on China. Address is Economics and Finance, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK. Email: Yu-Wei.Hu@brunel.ac.uk E. Philip Davis is Professor of Economics and Finance at Brunel University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and has academic links with the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School, the Financial Markets Group at LSE, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Recent books include Financial Structure (with Joseph Byrne, Cambridge University Press, 2003), Foundations of Pension Finance (edited jointly with Zvi Bodie, Edward Elgar, 2000), and Institutional Investors (with Benn Steil, MIT Press, 2001). Davis has published widely in the fields of pensions, institutional investment, euromarkets, banking, corporate finance, financial regulation, and financial stability. Recent research linked to pension issues includes estimation of the impact of demographic change on asset prices, links of pension funds to economic growth, UK pension issues and studies of the regulation of annuity markets. Address is Economics and Finance, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK. Email: e_Philip_davis@msn.com	E. Philip Davis Debt, Financial Fragility, and Systemic Risk in OSO External web page