April 2022

Sugerencias para la Emergencia
14Apr

Sugerencias para la Emergencia

Por Santiago Levy La emergencia sanitaria y económica que enfrenta América Latina y el Caribe requiere un ajuste inmediato de la política económica para minimizar los costos humanos de la pandemia, mitigar los costos sociales, y preservar la estabilidad macroeconómica. Las medidas de mitigación deben focalizarse sobre los trabajadores, con instrumentos ya disponibles como programas de transferencias condicionadas, registros fiscales o similares. Mantener el empleo formal es prioritario, y se deben evitar despidos y quiebras de empresas formales, subsidiando sus...

April 14, 2022
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14Apr

México. Efecto pandemia: Retiro de ahorros para la jubilación toca máximo desde octubre

En marzo del presente año los retiros parciales por desempleo de las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Afores) aumentaron 31 por ciento frente al mes anterior, para ubicarse en 2 mil 025.70 millones de pesos, su nivel más alto desde octubre de 2020. El dato de marzo es el segundo más elevado en lo que va de la crisis sanitaria, según cifras de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar). Este incremento se presenta luego...

April 14, 2022
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Changes in Retirement Savings during the COVID Pandemic
11Apr

Changes in Retirement Savings during the COVID Pandemic

By Elena Derby, Lucas Goodman, Kathleen Mackie, & Jacob Mortenson This paper documents changes in retirement saving patterns at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a large panel of U.S. tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the pandemic years relative to the years preceding the pandemic or the Great Recession. First, unlike during the...

April 11, 2022
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March 2022
31Mar

Panamá. IVM necesita $6,458 millones de 2024 a 2029

Sin los efectos de la Covid-19 sobre los ingresos de la Caja de Seguro Social (CSS) se había proyectado que las reservas del subsistema exclusivamente de beneficio definido de Invalidez, Vejez y Muerte (IVM) se agotarían en el año 2025, pero cuando se incorporan los estragos de la pandemia, el Departamento Actuarial de la entidad advirtió que el fin se producirá un año antes: en 2024. Estas proyecciones, hechas desde mayo de 2021, tienen como base el informe de la...

March 31, 2022
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COVID pandemic fuelled 2021 population drop in 73% of U.S. counties
24Mar

COVID pandemic fueled 2021 population drop in 73% of U.S. counties

The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic was reflected in a natural decrease last year in the population of nearly three-quarters of U.S. counties versus the two previous years, the census bureau said on Thursday. Read also US. Milliman analysis: Competitive pension risk transfer buyout rate hits all-time low in February, at 98.9% More than 73% of U.S. counties experienced natural decrease, or an excess of deaths over births, up from 55.5% in 2020 and 45.5% in 2019, bureau data showed. Read also...

March 24, 2022
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Retiro de Fondos de Pensiones: Resultados y Efectos
15Mar

Retiro de Fondos de Pensiones: Resultados y Efectos

Por Superintendencia de Pensiones En el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19 y de las crisis sanitaria y económica derivadas de esta, como una medida sin precedentes para el sistema de pensiones chileno, se han permitido a la fecha tres instancias consecutivas de retiros anticipados de ahorros previsionales. A junio de 2021, estas tres leyes han resultado en un total de MM US$50.000 retirados, lo que equivale a un 25% del total de los fondos de pensiones (acumulados a...

March 15, 2022
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Report on the economic impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Latin America and the Caribbean
10Mar

Report on the economic impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Latin America and the Caribbean

By ECLAC On 26 March 2020, the Government of Mexico convened a virtual ministerial meeting on health affairs for response and follow-up to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was attended by foreign ministers and health representatives from 30 countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), as well as regional organizations. As a result of the meeting, CELAC formed a strategic alliance with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)...

March 10, 2022
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The Early Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Americans’ Economic Security
10Mar

The Early Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Americans’ Economic Security

By Marco Angrisani, Jeremy Burke & Arie Kapteyn The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous effects on the U.S. economy and may have had serious negative repercussions for many Americans’ financial stability. We use longitudinal survey data from a nationally representative internet panel, the Understanding America Study, to examine the early impacts of the pandemic and policy responses to it, on Americans’ financial stability, financial well-being, and financial behavior (as of May 2020). We find that rather than experiencing large declines, Americans’...

March 10, 2022
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Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save Too Little, Borrow Too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?
10Mar

Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save Too Little, Borrow Too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?

By Doron Teichman & Eyal Zamir Many human decisions, ranging from the taking of loans with compound interest to fighting deadly pandemics, involve phenomena that entail exponential growth. Yet a wide and robust body of empirical studies demonstrates that people systematically underestimate exponential growth. This phenomenon, dubbed the exponential growth bias (EGB), has been documented in numerous contexts, across different populations, using both experimental and observational methods. Despite its centrality to human decision making, legal scholarship has thus far failed to...

March 10, 2022
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Allowing Early Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from Australia
03Mar

Allowing Early Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from Australia

By Nathan Wang-Ly & Ben Rhodri Newell In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world introduced policies aiming to provide citizens with financial relief through early access to their retirement savings. In Australia, the Early Release of Super (ERS) scheme allowed eligible citizens to withdraw up to A$20,000 in funds between April and December 2020. Using data provided by a large Australian bank, we examine the characteristics of the individuals who withdrew, how they used the withdrawn...

March 3, 2022
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