Governance of Public Pension Funds: Lessons from Corporate Governance and International Evidence
35 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Date Written: August 1, 2003
Abstract
An understanding of corporate governance theory can promote the adoption of appropriate governance tools to limit agency problems in public pension fund management. The absence of a market for corporate control hinders the translation of lessons from the private sector corporate world to public pension governance. The establishment of a fit and proper governing body for public pension funds thus may be even more important than the maintenance of a comparable body for private sector corporations. In particular, behavioral controls should be carefully designed.
This paper - a product of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to study the effects of contractual savings development on financial markets.
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