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Merton, Robert C. “The Real Problem with Pensions.” Forethought. Harvard Business Review 82, no. 12 (December 2004): 21-22. (HBS Reprint #F0412H.)
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Bodie, Zvi, and Robert C. Merton. “Pension Reform and Privatization in International Perspective: The Case of Israel.” The Economics Quarterly 152 (August 1992). (Reprinted in English in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume II, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000
Bodie, Zvi and Robert C. Merton. “Pension Benefit Guarantees in the United States: A Functional Analysis.” In The Future of Pensions in the United States, edited by R. Schmitt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. (Reprinted in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume I, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000.)
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