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Annuity Markets and Retirement Security
* James M. Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Poterba is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Director of the NBER's Public Economics Research Program. The research reported herein was supported in part by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College pursuant to a grant from...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Fiscal Studies
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0143-5671
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2001.tb00042.x