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Cash-balance plan conversions : evidence on excise taxes and implicit contracts
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Niehaus, Greg ‌
Cash-balance plan conversions : evidence on excise taxes and implicit contracts / Greg Niehaus, Tong Yu
Firms that wish to switch from a traditional defined-benefit pension plan to a defined-contribution-type plan have a choice between coverting to a cash-balance plan or replacing the defined-benefit plan with a full-fledged defined-contribution plan. According to Ippolito and Thompson's (1999; industrial relations, 39 : 228-245) excise tax avoidance hypothesis, a number of firms have switched to cash-balance plans because conversion allows the firm to avoid excise taxes on its excess pension assets. In contrast to existing studies, our evidence supports the excise tax avoidance hypothesis
En: The Journal of risk and insurance. - Orlando. - Volume 72, number 2, June 2005 ; p. 321-352
1. Pensiones ‌. 2. Planes de pensiones ‌. 3. Balances ‌. 4. Estadísticas ‌. I. Yu, Tong ‌. II. Título. III. Título: The Journal of risk and insurance.