Carlos Vidal-Meliá

University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics

Avda. del Tarongers, s/n

46022 Valencia

Spain

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1.

Automatic Balance Mechanisms in Pay-as-You-Go Pension Systems

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice 34 (2) 287-317
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 May 2008 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
Carlos Vidal-Meliá, María el Carmen Boado-Penas and Ole Settergren
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Liverpool and Independent
Downloads 398 (148,819)
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Actuarial Analysis, Actuarial Balance, Spain, Political risk, Solvency

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Evaluación de las tarifas de las pensiones de accidentes de trabajo y enfermedades profesionales (2011-2015) (Are the Rates Levied to Cover the Cost of Pensions for Occupational Injury and Disease Actuarially Fair? An Analysis for the Period 2011-2015))

Innovar Journal, 27(66), 153-167.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 May 2015 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
University of Barcelona - Department of Actuarial, Financial and Economic Mathematics, University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Capitalization system, Invalidity, Life annuities, Mutual Insurance Societies for Occupational Accidents and Diseases, Widowhood

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El Balance actuarial del Sistema de reparto. Modelo 'Sueco' frente a modelo 'EE.UU.': Posible aplicación al caso español. (The Actuarial Balance of the Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: ‘US’ Model versus ‘Swedish’ Model: Possible Application in the Case of Spain)

Revista Española de Financiacion y Contabilidad-Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, Vol. XL, Núm. 149, Enero-Marzo, 97-123.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2015
María el Carmen Boado-Penas, Ole Settergren and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
University of Liverpool, Independent and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads 331 (182,092)
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Actuarial Balance, Spain, Sweden, Toledo agreement, Transparency, USA

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Models of the Actuarial Balance of the Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: A Review and Some Policy Recommendations

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 May 2010 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2010
University of Liverpool, University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics and Tokai Central Hospital
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Japan, Notional Accounts, Projections, Public Pensions, Retirement, Sustainability, Sweden, USA

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An Assessment of the 2011 Spanish Pension Reform using the Swedish System as a Benchmark

Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 13 (03), 297-333.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
Carlos Vidal-Meliá
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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actuarial fairness, individual pension information, political risk, solvency, transparency

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The Actuarial Balance Sheet for Pay-as-You-Go Finance: Solvency Indicators for Spain and Sweden

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2182
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Jan 2008
University of Liverpool, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Institute of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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retirement, pay-as-you-go system, accountancy, solvency, pensions, Spain

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Life Care Annuities (LCA) Embedded in a Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) Framework

Astin Bulletin, 2016; 46 (2) 331 - 363.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Javier Pla-Porcel, Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
SOS Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A., University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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LCA, NDC, Pay-as-you-go, LTC Insurance, Social Security

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An Actuarial Balance Sheet Model for Defined Benefit Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems with Disability and Retirement Contingencies

Astin Bulletin, 44 (2), 367-415. DOI: 10.1017/asb.2014.5, Published online: 13 February 2014
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Actuarial Balance, Disability, Retirement, Solvency, Sweden, Transparency

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A Procedure for Selecting Representative Subsamples of a Population from a Simple Random Sample

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2016
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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subsamples, KDD, optimization, chi-square test, p-value, Continuous Sample of Working Lives

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Converting Retirement Benefit into a Life Care Annuity with Graded Benefits: How Costly Would It Actually Be?

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, November 2016, DOI: 10.1080/03461238.2016.1258370
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2017
Javier Pla-Porcel, Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
SOS Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A., University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads 144 (399,808)
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Life Care Annuities, Long-Term Care Insurance, Multistate model, Retirement

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Notional Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Why Does Only Sweden Distribute the Survivor Dividend?

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 19 (3); 200-220. April 2015, DOI:10.1080/17487870.2015.1028547
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2017
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Liverpool and Willis Towers Watson
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Financial Equilibrium, Longevity Risk, Pay-as-you-go, Public Pensions, Retirement, Social Security, Transparency

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Análisis de la representatividad de la MCVL: el caso de las prestaciones del sistema público de pensiones

Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 217-(2/2016): 67-130
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 13 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2017
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads 127 (441,025)
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Continuous Sample of Working Lives, the public pension system, stratified sampling, chi-square test, effect size, selection of sub-sample.

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Integrating Retirement and Permanent Disability in NDC Pension Schemes

Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics, DOI:10.1080/00036846.2015.1093084 Published online: 30 Sep 2015
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2015
Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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NDC, Pay-as-you-go, Retirement, Disability Insurance, Social Security, Sweden

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An Ndc Approach to Helping Pensioners Cope with the Cost of Long-Term Care

Journal of Pensions Economic and Finance (Accepted for publication: 17 Jan 2018)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2018
Javier Pla-Porcel, Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
SOS Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A., University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads 122 (454,760)
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Life Care Annuities, Notional Defined Contribution, Pay-as-you-go, Long-Term Care Insurance, Social Security

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Un Procedimiento De Selección De Sub-Muestras De Gran Tamaño De Una Muestra Aleatoria Simple Representativas De La Población De Estudio (A Selection Procedure of High Size Sub-Samples from a Simple Random Sample Representative of the Population)

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Jun 2015
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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selección de sub-muestra, muestreo estratificado, test chi-cuadrado, p-valor, Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales.

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Non-Financial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Is a Survivor Dividend Necessary to Make the System Balanced?

Applied Economics Letters, 21:4, 242-247,
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
María el Carmen Boado-Penas and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
University of Liverpool and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads 99 (529,722)
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Financial Equilibrium, Longevity Risk, Pay-As-You-Go, Public Pensions, Retirement, Transparency

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Life Care Annuities to Help Couples Cope with the Cost of Long-term Care

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 May 2022
University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Australia, Couples, Joint life expectancy, illness-death multistate model, Life Care Annuities, Long-Term Care Insurance, Retirement.

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Compiling the Actuarial Balance for Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems. Is It Better to Use the Hidden Asset or the Contribution Asset?

Applied Economics, Vol. 45, No. 10, 2013
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 May 2010 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2015
Carlos Vidal-Meliá and María el Carmen Boado-Penas
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics and University of Liverpool
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Defined Benefits, Sweden, USA, Transparency

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Is the Reform of the Spanish Public Pension System of 2011 Justified from an Actuarial Point of View?

Anales del Instituto de Actuarios, Nº 18, 171-216.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
Manuel García-García and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Actuarial balance, Spain, Individual pension information, PAYG, Sweden

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The Implicit (Un)Healthy Life Expectancy Used for Pricing Long-Term Care Insurance and Life Care Annuities

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Mar 2023
Carlos Vidal-Meliá, Manuel Ventura-Marco and Anne M. Garvey
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and Universidad de Alcala de Henares
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Activity limitations, Dependence states, Healthy life expectancy, Life care annuity, Long-term care insurance.

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Unisex Life Care Annuities Embedded in a Pay-as-You-Go Pension System: Analysing the Issue of Gender Redistribution

To appear in Journal of Population Ageing ISSN: 1874-7884 (Print) 1874-7876 (Online)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2018
Carlos Vidal-Meliá, Manuel Ventura-Marco and Javier Pla-Porcel
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and SOS Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A.
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Gender, Life Care Annuities, Long-Term Care Insurance, Multistate model, Redistribution, Retirement

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Does the Pension System’s Income Statement Really Matter? A Proposal for An NDC Scheme with Disability and Minimum Pension Benefits

ICAE - Instituto Complutense de Analisis Economico, Working Paper No. 1922, July 2019 updated version (October 17, 2019)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2019
Anne M. Garvey, Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
Universidad de Alcala de Henares, University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads 62 (695,516)
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Disability Insurance, Minimum Pensions, Notional Defined Contribution, Pension Accounting, Sweden, True and Fair View

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Automatic Regrouping of Strata in the Goodness-of-Fit Chi-Square Test

SORT-Statistics and Operations Research Transactions, 2019
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 10 Mar 2019
University of the Basque Country, University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics), University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Goodness-of-Fit Chi-Square Test, Statistical Software, VBA, Mathematica, Continuous Sample of Working Lives

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Selección De Sub-Muestras De Gran Tamaño De La Mcvl Representativas De Las Prestaciones Del Sistema Público De Pensiones (Selection of High Size Sub-Samples from the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (CSWL) Representative of the Benefits Provided by the Spanish Public Pension System)

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 May 2015 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2015
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales, sistema público de pensiones, selección de sub-muestra, test chi-cuadrado, p-valor

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The Continuous Sample of Working Lives: Improving Its Representativeness

SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 8 (1): 43-95. DOI: 10.1007/s13209-017-0154-0
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2017
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Continuous Sample of Working Lives, public pension system, sub-sample selection, stratified sampling, chi-square test, p-value

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From ‘Table 29’ to the Actuarial Balance Sheet: Is It Really That Big a Leap?

ICAE Working Paper nº 2105, 2021
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Apr 2021
Universidad de Alcala de Henares, University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Accountability, Actuarial Balance Sheet, Pension Liabilities, Social Security, Spain, Table 29, Useful Information

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Individual Pension Information: Recommendations for the Case of Spain Based on the Experiences of Other Countries

International Social Security Review, 65 (2), 1-27. Article first published online: 4 APR 2012.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
Marta Regúlez-Castillo and Carlos Vidal-Meliá
University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Actuarial balance, Sweden, Transparency, US, Pension Information

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Improving the Representativeness of a Simple Random Sample: An Optimization Model and Its Application to the Continuous Sample of Working Lives

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
University of the Basque Country, University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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optimization, subsampling, chi-square test, p-value, Continuous Sample of Working Lives

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A Social Insurance Accounting for a Notional Defined Contribution Scheme Combining Retirement and Long-Term Care Benefits

Sustainability — Open Access Journal, ISSN 2071-1050.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Aug 2018
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Life Care Annuities, Long-Term Care Insurance, Notional Defined Contribution, Pay-as-you-go, Pension Accounting, Retirement, Social Security, Sustainability

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Mortality and Life Expectancy Trends for Male Pensioners by Pension Income Level

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2021
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Inequalities, Life Expectancy, Life Tables, Mortality, Socioeconomic Factors

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Differences in Life Expectancy Between Self-Employed Workers and Paid Employees When Retirement Pensioners: Evidence From Spanish Social Security Records

ICAE Working Paper nº 2104, February, 2021. A version based on this wp has been accepted for publication in European Journal of Population.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2021
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics) and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics
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Continuous Sample of Working Lives; Life Expectancy; Paid Employees; Retirement; Self-Employed; Spain

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A 'Swedish' Actuarial Balance Sheet for a Notional Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with Disability and Retirement Benefits

International Social Security Review Vol 70 (3), 79-104.
Posted: 22 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2021
University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Financial Economics

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Disability Insurance, Minimum Pensions, Notional defined contribution, Pay-as-you-go, Pension Accounting, Retirement, Sweden