2020
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Are people retiring earlier or later? Both are true — and it says a lot about the youngest generations entering and defining the workforce, Business Insider – 01/21/2020
- Olivia S. Mitchell – THE END OF RETIREMENT, Wall Street Journal – 01/10/2020
- Olivia S. Mitchell – OPINION: Financial literacy apps are more important than you might think, Personal Finance – 01/07/2020
2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – SECURE Act, signed by President, a game-changer for retirement plans, The Philadelphia Inquirer – 12/31/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 401(k) Early Withdrawals Will Be Easier: Be Careful!, next avenue – 10/17/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – FINRA honors Wharton’s Olivia Mitchell with Ketchum Prize, Pensions & Investments – 10/14/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – More Troubles For GE As 20,000 Pensions Are Frozen, WAMC – 10/08/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – GE Will Freeze 20,000 Worker Pensions In Effort To Cut Deficit By $8 Billion, wbur – 10/07/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Do recessions and stock market drops go hand-in-hand? Surprisingly, not always., The Philadelphia Inquirer – 09/16/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Problem With Bonds in a Retirement Portfolio, Wall Street Journal – 09/10/2019
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Experts Say Tax the Sugar—Not the Size—Of Drinks for Healthier Outcomes, AAAS – 09/05/2019
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Taxing sweetened drinks by the amount of sugar could cut obesity and boost economic gains, Science Daily – 09/05/2019
- Joseph Harrington – The T-Mobile-Sprint Merger: Can Dish Network Help Make It Happen?, Knowledge@Wharton – 08/09/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Association created for global study of pensions, Pension&Investments – 08/05/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Auto-Enrollment Retirement Plans for the People: Choices and Outcomes in OregonSaves, National Press Club – 08/02/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Researchers Propose Including Annuities as a Default in 401(k)s, Plan Sponsor – 07/24/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – More sponsors cut a break on 401(k) loan repayment, Pensions&Investments – 07/22/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Don’t People Buy More Annuities?, BBN Times – 07/18/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Don’t People Buy More Annuities?, Conversable Economist – 07/15/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Congress’ new SECURE Act bill is the most significant retirement plan legislation in years, The Philadelphia Inquirer – 07/07/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Deferred Annuities as 401k Plan Default?, 401k Specialist – 06/27/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Multiemployer pension bailout plan is fatally flawed, The Hill – 06/27/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Automatic enrollment in 401(k) annuities: Boosting retiree lifetime income, Brookings – 06/25/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 5 Social Security Myths, Savvymoney – 06/10/2019
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – The cigarette tax has saved millions of lives. A soda tax could too, Los Angeles Times – 06/03/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 16 Powerhouse Female Economists, Worth – 05/30/2019
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – How to tax sugary drinks, The Economist – 05/23/2019
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – A nationwide tax on soda? Economists say it would be good for the country, and here’s their ‘optimal’ rate., Philadelphia Inquirer – 05/20/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Debt Affects Retirement, Retirement Income Journal – 05/10/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PENSION REFORMS, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN, The Heartland Institute – 05/08/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Thaler pushing retirement income idea, Pensions & Investments – 04/29/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Aging Populations Force Lawmakers to Rethink Pension Systems, The Dialogue – 04/16/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Lump-sum pension payments: Who are the winners and losers?, Penn Today – 04/16/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 5 steps to take now to make your house work for you in retirement, Bank Rate – 04/11/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Being financially literate can help you save more, retire better, Today – 04/06/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 5 New Things Finance Professors Are Saying About Your Prospects, Think Advisor – 04/05/2019
- Joseph Harrington – Beware Algorithms That Could Collude on Prices, The Wall Street Journal – 04/01/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Re-evaluating the retirement option, The Eagle-Tribune – 03/30/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why saving—and spending—money gets trickier for retirees, The Market Watch – 03/21/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Use Social Security to Pay for Parental Leave? That’s a ‘Terrible Idea,’ Experts Say, Barron’s – 03/16/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Survey of Older Americans Finds Many are Lacking in Understanding Needed for Key Financial Decisions, NBER.org – 02/14/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 6 Ways Retirement Has Changed Over the Past 25 Years, https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/retirement/T037-S004-6-ways-retirement-has-changed-over-past-25-years/index.html – 02/04/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Kick the Tires on Car Insurance to Understand What You Get, Wall Street Journal – 01/27/2019
- Howard Kunreuther – The Crisis Issue, Brunswick Review – 01/17/2019 Description
Interview with Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem on findings from their book, Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies Are Coping with Disruption.
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Vanguard founder John C. Bogle remembered as retirement-industry icon, Pensions&Investments – 01/16/2019
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 10 ways to deal with debt while in retirement, USA Today – 01/12/2019
2018
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Story of Seattle: The city’s new soda tax is usurious — and also too low, The Seattle Times – 12/21/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – What would you do with an extra $88 in Austin?, USA Today – 12/07/2018
- Joseph Harrington – FTC Hearing 7: Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Consumer Protection Implications of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics, Federal Trade Commission – 11/14/2018
- Howard Kunreuther – California Wildfires: What Will It Take to Prevent the Next Disaster?, Knowledge@Wharton – 11/13/2018 Description
“We need to figure out ways where the State of California, insurers, utilities and residents can take steps to reduce these losses in the future.”
- Shing-Yi Wang – Internal migration improves economic security in rural China, VoxDev – 10/15/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The $210 Billion Risk in Your 401(k), Wall Street Journal – 10/10/2018
- Heather Schofield – Sleepless in…. Seattle? Which city gets the least shuteye, The Guardian. Reported by Hettie O’Brien. – 09/25/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Emerging-Market Tremors Rattle Tennessee’s Public Pensions, Wall Street Journal – 09/08/2018
- Howard Kunreuther – Industry Looks For Hurricane Lessons As Climate Changes., NPR – 08/31/2018 Description
Howard Kunreuther: “There’s a tendency for all of us — not just firms, but individuals — to be myopic,” he says, “to want to get something back in the short term to justify an investment. It often takes a disaster to get people to pay attention.”
- Joseph Harrington – Knorr Bremse, Wabtec ‘No-Poach’ Case Triggers Wave of Class Suits (1), Bloomberg BNA – 08/28/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Scammers are targeting retirement savings. Here’s how to fight them, Market Place – 08/14/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Evaluating Lump Sum Incentives for Delayed Social Security Claiming, Oxford Academic – 08/10/2018
- Howard Kunreuther – How to Fix the National Flood Insurance Program., U.S. News and World Report – 07/31/2018 Description
Interview with Howard Kunreuther.
- Shing-Yi Wang – Do dishonest people gravitate towards the public sector in India?, Ideas for India – 07/30/2018
- Joseph Harrington – Robots, Prices, and Future Cartels, Norwegian Business Journal – 07/30/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – In need of a win, Congress proposes expanded retirement accounts before mid-terms, The Inquirer – 07/20/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The hard economics of the High Court’s Janus decision, The Washington Times – 07/10/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Fintech is Coming to Retirement Planning — But You Still Need a Good Ol’ Budget, TheStreet – 06/04/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Technology Is Disrupting Retirement Planning, The Street – 05/31/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – A handful of new tech companies are hoping to bring new people into the stock market, Marketplace – 05/29/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The World Isn’t Prepared for Retirement, Bloomberg – 05/29/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Spoilt Rotten: Are There Too Many Mutual Funds & ETFs?, Forbes – 05/16/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Elder Financial Fraud Is Worse Than We Thought. Here’s What We Can Do About It., Wall Street Journal – 05/09/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Americans Should Be More Financially Literate. But What Does That Mean?, Wall Street Journal – 05/06/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pension problems help drive US protests for teacher raises, Associated Press – 05/01/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pre-Retirees – Underfunded And Overleveraged: Financial Advisors’ Daily Digest, Seeking Alpha – 04/24/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Will More Baby Boomers Delay Retirement?, PRB – 04/23/2018
- Joseph Harrington – Pricing Algorithms: The Antitrust Implications, Arnold & Porter – 04/17/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Older Consumers Carry More Debt, Risk, UCN – 03/08/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Startup offers annuities online on a subscription plan, Investment News – 03/01/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Researchers: Persistent Low Interest Rates Weigh on 401(k) Savings, NAPa – 02/26/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – What Makes 401(k) Loans Risky?, Nasdaq – 02/18/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How people without patience set themselves up for pain, Wealth Professional – 02/16/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 4 Ways Persistent Low Returns Affect Retirement Behavior: NBER, Think Advisor – 02/14/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Making Big Decisions as We Get Older Is So Risky, Wall Street Journal – 02/08/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement info for women: Our favorite classes, clubs and blogs, The Inquirer – 02/01/2018
- Shing-Yi Wang – Land rights and agricultural efficiency, VoxDev – 01/22/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Research on financial literacy can win award, Pensions & Investments – 01/22/2018
- Shing-Yi Wang – Rural Property Rights and Agricultural Productivity, VoxChina – 01/17/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Need A 401(k) Loan? It Just Got Less Dangerous, Forbes – 01/16/2018
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Column: For U.S. retirees, rising interest rates a double-edged sword, Reuters – 01/04/2018
2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Private Pensions Are Becoming a Thing of the Past, wNYC – 12/28/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Wharton prof: boomers enter retirement with more debt than ever and what to do about it, The Inquirer – 12/28/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why debt can be so dangerous in retirement, MarketWatch – 12/15/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Fees Rise for Underfunded Pensions, Bloomberg Businessweek – 12/14/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Philadelphia Parking Authority honcho Richard Dickson set to snag record $655K retirement perk, The Inquirer – 12/10/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Three in 10 local households have no retirement savings, records show, The Intelligencer – 11/12/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Indebtedness of Americans Nearing Retirement Has Risen Sharply, Increasing Risk of Bankruptcies, NBER – 11/09/2017
- Santosh Anagol – The Endowment Effect, Outsmarting Human Minds Podcast – 11/01/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Slashing 401(k) limits to fund budget is like ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’, Yahoo! Finance – 10/27/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The new retirement, The Andover Townsman – 10/26/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Have you checked your employer’s pension fund lately?, Crain’s Chicago Buisness – 09/29/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – When Warren Buffett Runs Your Pension Plan, Bloomberg Businessweek – 09/28/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Higher Interest Rates Are Going to Really Hurt Today’s Elderly, Wall Street Journal – 09/24/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Philly City Hall sits on pension deal info, Philly.com – 09/21/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – City’s pension ‘reform’ hits taxpayers, consumers, Philly.com – 09/11/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Are Multiemployer Plans In Trouble Or Not?, 401k Specialist – 08/22/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy For The Young And Young At Heart, Asian Scientist – 08/16/2017
- Shing-Yi Wang – In pursuit of power, The Hindu – 08/15/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Here’s the real reason women get smarter about money as they get older, CNBC – 08/14/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 70 percent of Americans can’t answer these 3 basic money questions, CNBC – 08/11/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Self-made millionaire Grant Cardone: This is why ‘men will almost always win the money game’, CNBC – 08/08/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – PUTTING THE PENSION BACK IN 401(K) RETIREMENT PLANS: OPTIMAL VERSUS DEFAULT LONGEVITY INCOME ANNUITIES, Penn Wharton Budget Model – 08/03/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask), Freakonomics – 08/02/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Widows, divorcees face financial wake-up call when spouses are gone, Philly.com – 07/21/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Research Finds Benefit of Offering Longevity Annuities in DC Plans, Planadviser – 07/17/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Make Your Retirement Money Last For Life, Forbes – 07/17/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Keeping it simple is key lesson for encouraging retirement savings, experts say, Pensions & Investments – 07/10/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Most school districts raising taxes, reducing staff to meet rising costs, Oberver Reporter – 06/26/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Q&A: Olivia S. Mitchell,, UBS Knowledge Network – 06/21/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The $31 Billion Hole in GE’s Balance Sheet That Keeps Growing, Bloomberg – 06/16/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pennsylvania takes new step on troubled public pension plans, AP – 06/12/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Redefining retirement, Zurich – 05/31/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Honorary Doctorate for Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell, Ph.D., Goethe Universitat – 05/25/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell Named 2016 EBRI Lillywhite Award Winner, ebri.org – 05/15/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The pension-style retirement product you should know about, Fidelity Investments – 05/13/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Who Says You Need Tax Breaks for Retirement Saving?, Bloomberg Businessweek – 05/11/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Wharton’s Olivia Mitchell hosts a retirement conference and — surprise! — the research is ‘depressing’, philly.com – 05/05/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Individual retirement accounts aren’t attracting enough of the right individuals, Marketplace – 05/02/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Financial Knowledge Drives Wealth Inequality, Wall Street Journal – 04/09/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 3 Reasons Why the Gender Pay Gap Still Exists, Fortune – 04/03/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Rising Retirement Perils of 401(k) ‘Leakage’, Wall Street Journal – 04/02/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – This Is Not Your Father’s 401K: The Retirement Product You Should Know About, credit.com – 03/29/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Most people flunked this retirement quiz. Can you pass?, CNBC – 03/10/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Longer Lives, New Opportunities, SSGA.com – 03/08/2017
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Measuring the effectiveness of Philly’s sugary drink ‘sin tax’, National Public Radio: Philadelphia WHYY – 03/06/2017
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Do Sin Taxes Really Work?, Yahoo Finance – 03/05/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Putting Philadelphia’s $149 million pension fund loss into context, Planphilly – 03/02/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – When 6.9% Isn’t Enough, Chief Investment Officer – 02/28/2017
- Olivia S. Mitchell – CalSTRS Lowers Return Expectations and Revises Actuarial Expectations, Chief Investment Officer – 02/06/2017
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Here’s how much more soda will cost now that the tax is in effect, The Daily Pennsylvanian – 01/10/2017
2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Much Cash Would It Take to Get You to Delay Retirement?, Think Advisor – 12/30/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Growing number of Americans are retiring outside the US, The Big Story – 12/27/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Thinking about retiring to a place overseas?, Kalb – 12/27/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Much Cash Would It Take to Get You to Delay Retirement?, Bloomberg – 12/20/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Report finds wealth gap continues into retirement, WVTF Public Radio – 12/19/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Making longer lives better: Living long and prospering, ebn Adviser – 11/29/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Insights on Pension, Advisers, Wall Street Journal – 11/07/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Key To Better 401k Participant Outcomes: Olivia Mitchell, 401k Specialist – 10/24/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How to Put the Pension Back into Retirement Plans, Wall Street Journal – 10/23/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – THE NEW RETIREMENT, MyInforms.com – 10/23/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Penn meeting focuses on how to get more people to save for retirement, Philly.com – 10/20/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Should the Social Security Retirement Age Be 76?, Next Avenue – 10/18/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy Is Still Abysmal Everywhere, Wall Street Journal – 10/12/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – An Analysis of Options to Increase Retirement Security for New York City Private Sector Workers, NYC Retirement Security Study Group – 10/12/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – of CRAINS 100 Innovators, Disruptors and Change-makers in Business!, CRAIN 2016 – 10/05/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Nearly 7 million Californians will be automatically enrolled in state-run retirement savings plan under new law, LA Times – 09/29/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Photographer: Getty Images Why More Women Than Ever Are Putting Off Retirement, Bloomberg – 09/14/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Boomer Women Are Worse Off Financially Than Their Predecessors, Wall Street Journal – 09/11/2016
- Shing-Yi Wang – Jobless Indian workers in UAE unlikely to return due to kafala system, International Business Times – 09/11/2016
- Shing-Yi Wang – Open doors but different laws, Economist – 09/10/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Older Adults Place Less Value on Saving, AAII – 09/01/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Women In Their 50s More Financially Fragile Than Generation Ago Say Researchers, Linkedin – 09/01/2016
- Shing-Yi Wang – UAE labour mobility reforms create winners and losers, The National – 08/20/2016
- Santosh Anagol – To have and to hold, The Economist – 08/18/2016
- David F Babbel – In planning for retirement, what life expectancy should the average person use to make sure they have saved enough?, WalletHub – 08/15/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Patience Is the Secret to Wealth and Health, Economists Suggest in a New Study, Wall Street Journal – 08/01/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – En entredicho, sistema de administradoras de fondos, Eleconomista – 07/27/2016
- Santosh Anagol – Endowment effects in the field: Evidence from IPO lotteries in India, Voxeu – 07/17/2016
- Kent Smetters – What Does Federal Budget Policy Mean For Your Bottom Line?, KJZZ 91.5 – 07/11/2016
- Heather Schofield – The Economics of Ramadan, The Economist – 07/02/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 5 Tips to Help Women Work Longer, Next Avenue – 06/30/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 401(k) Investment Options: Less is More, Squared Away Blog – 06/30/2016
- Kent Smetters – Social Security to run dry three years sooner than expected: study, The Hill – 06/30/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Knowledge Leads to Better Retirement Savings Behavior, Plansponsor – 06/27/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – RETIREMENT SECURITY IN PHILADELPHIA: An Analysis of Current Conditions and Paths to Better Outcomes, Philadelphia Comptroller – 05/31/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pemex’s Pension Problem: Why the Oil Giant Is on Slippery Ground, Knowledge@Wharton – 05/27/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Here’s How to Help More Americans Boost Their Social Security Benefits, Time – 05/19/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – DISCUSSION: Here’s How to Get More People to Delay Claiming Social Security, The Financial Exchange – 05/10/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Here’s How to Get More People to Delay Claiming Social Security, Wall Street Journal – 05/09/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – A new idea for solving Social Security’s money troubles, Philly.com – 05/09/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The US public pensions crisis ‘is really hard to fix’, Financial Times – 05/01/2016
- Kent Smetters – Planning For Your Retirement: Understanding Annuities, NPR – 04/27/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Opinion: Why a lump-sum payment should be part of Social Security, Market Watch – 04/11/2016
- Shing-Yi Wang – Wages of chagrin, Economist – 04/09/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Variable Annuities, Lifetime Income Guarantees, and Investment Downside Protection, Trends and Issues – 03/31/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – California debates a retirement savings fix, Market Place – 03/30/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How to Get People to Delay Retirement, Wall Street Journal – 03/20/2016
- Judd B. Kessler – The job search, AM New York – 03/03/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Investment over the Life Cycle: Inertia and Financial Advice, House of Finance – 03/01/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Geldanlage: Verstehen Sie Sparen?, Spiegel Online – 02/23/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Who’ll Pay for Americans to Live to 100?, Next Avenue – 02/08/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?, Wall Street Journal – 02/07/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Streamlining the Plan Menu, Plansponsor – 02/01/2016
- Kent Smetters – Annuities as an Alternative to Shaky Markets? Not So Fast, New York Times – 01/29/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 2016’s best and worst states to retire, WalletHub – 01/25/2016
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Few ways to improve your odds for record $700 million Powerball, The Press Democrat – 01/07/2016
2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Streamlined DC Investment Menu Could Save Participants Millions, Plansponsor – 12/30/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – To Delay Social Security Claiming, Offer Lump Sum Benefit: Report, ThinkAdvisor – 12/10/2015
- Heather Schofield – A bad night’s sleep might do more harm than you think., NPR – 12/02/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Target Date Funds: Top 3 for Each Retirement Period, Yahoo! Finance – 11/25/2015
- Joseph Harrington – Oakland’s Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Move To Block An Open Market, BuzzFeed News – 11/12/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Obama’s MyRA Retirement Savings Plan Goes Nationwide, Bloomberg Business – 11/04/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – What the U.S. can learn from Chile’s retirement system, Fortune – 10/29/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement Living: Debt holds many Boomers back, USA Today – 10/21/2015
- Corinne Low – Can’t Afford School? Girls Learn to Negotiate the Harvard Way, NPR – 10/08/2015 Description
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Loan is not a four-letter word, Vanguard Blog for Institutional Investors – 10/07/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Yes, Chilean Personal Retirement Accounts Work, Investors.com – 10/05/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Baby Boomer Women and the Burden of Debt, Wall Street Journal – 10/01/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pension advances draw scrutiny, Market Place – 09/29/2015
- Joseph Harrington – We need to hit individual managers involved in cartels where it really hurts and put them in prison, Punto Edu – 09/11/2015
- Corinne Low – IVF availability ‘allows women to delay having babies and pursue careers’, The Guardian – 08/22/2015 Description
- Olivia S. Mitchell – What really happens when pensions disappear, CNBC – 07/24/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 10 top women in economics, Agenda – 07/23/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Choice a Detriment to Public Worker Retirement Savings, Plansponsor – 07/20/2015
- Heather Schofield – The economics of sleep., Freakonomics Radio – 07/16/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy Among CEOs and CFOs on LinkedIn, Plansponsor – 07/13/2015
- Joseph Harrington – Wage suppression: The fine print in Boston 2024’s job creation promises, The Bay State Examiner – 07/13/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Leakage from 401(k) loans, defaults is greater than thought, benefitspro – 07/01/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – GFOR: Adding annuities to DC plans still open to debate, Pensions & Investments – 06/25/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why people don’t buy long-term-care insurance, MarketWatch – 06/25/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – With long-term care coverage so costly, what do the pros do?, Philly.com – 06/22/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why People Don’t Buy Long-Term-Care Insurance, Wall Street Journal – 06/14/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Powell: How to fix America’s retirement problems, USA Today – 05/21/2015
- Joseph Harrington – Why the Google Antitrust Case Is a ‘Step in the Negotiation Process’, Knowledge@Wharton – 05/01/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – When one partner makes more than the other, CNN Money – 04/20/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Sponsors’ Approach to Loans Affects Retirement Plan Leakage, Plansponsor – 04/20/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – New Proposed Rules for Retirement Investments, Market Place – 04/15/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – One Economics Book We All Should Read, Wall Street Journal – 04/15/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Biggest Hit to Your Retirement Savings: Living Too Long, NY Times – 04/03/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement plans adding annuities, Consumers Digest – 03/31/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – A Three-Question Test of Financial Literacy, Wall Street Journal – 03/25/2015
- Joseph Harrington – Vigor of Imperial Seen as Issue in Reynolds/Lorillard Merger, Financial News – 03/24/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Higher financial literacy would benefit everyone, Philly.com – 03/16/2015
- Kent Smetters – How bank stress tests are like restaurant inspections, Market Place – 03/12/2015
- Kent Smetters – Americans Aren’t Saving Enough for Retirement, but One Change Could Help, NY Times – 03/03/2015
- Kent Smetters – White House Move To Protect Nest Eggs Sparks Hopes And Fears, NPR – 02/27/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – NYC comptroller announces group to study retirement plan for private-sector employees, Pensions & Investments – 02/27/2015
- Santosh Anagol – Holy cows or cash cows, Mint – 02/20/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Delay Social Security, get a bonus?, Bankrate – 02/11/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – A Retirement Age of 100? It’s Coming, Wall Street Journal – 02/09/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Timing of Pension Payouts and Social Security Claiming, NBER – 02/06/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Late Retirement Bonus: How the Government can Incentivize Working Longer, Chicago Policy Review – 01/30/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Fiduciary Re-Proposal, Fee Disclosures On Deck for 2015; MEPs Wait in the Wings, Bloomberg BNA – 01/16/2015
- Kent Smetters – 7 Ways to Jump-Start Your Retirement Savings in 2015, US News – 01/05/2015
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Easing Into Leisure, One Step at a Time, NY Times – 01/02/2015
2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Annuities, IRAs and other retirement game-changers, MarketWatch – 12/29/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Decision on pension payout will last a lifetime, The Boston Globe – 12/21/2014
- Kent Smetters – Where is your extra gas money going?, Market Place – 12/16/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Congress Says It Has to Cut Pensions to Save Them, Bloomberg – 12/11/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – One weird trick to shore up Social Security’s finances (really), Vox – 11/18/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Female Financial Advisers Sought as Boomers Need Planning, Bloomberg – 11/18/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Can stock purchase plans help contain 401(k) loans?, FierceCFO – 11/17/2014
- Kent Smetters – Health-Care Hangover: Enrollment Challenges Persist, Wall Street Journal – 11/14/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Prenups Aren’t Just for Financial Issues, Wall Street Journal Blog – 11/12/2014
- Kent Smetters – How the U.S. might get to wage growth, Market Place – 11/07/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – With court’s approval, Detroit emerges from bankruptcy, Los Angles Times – 11/07/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pension problem: What to do if the PGW deal is dead, Philly.com – 10/31/2014
- Kent Smetters – SHARE IT! Europe v China: Whose economic woes pain America more?, Market Place – 10/21/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Cities Are Eliminating the Healthcare Benefits Once Promised to Retirees, The Atlantic – 10/14/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Student loans plus financial illiteracy equals big debts for some older women, The Washington Post – 10/03/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement and debt usually don’t mix, Consumer Affairs – 09/19/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement and debt usually don’t mix, Consumer Affairs – 09/19/2014
- Joseph Harrington – Is Amazon Taking Over the World?, New York Times/Scholastic – 09/15/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Better no Social Security replacement rates than wrong replacement rates, AEI-Ideas – 09/03/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Boomer Wealth Dented by Mortgages Poses U.S. Risk, Bloomberg – 08/28/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Comisión Pensiones sesiona por primera vez con integrantes internacionales, Comisionpensiones – 08/20/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 2014 RRC Meeting: Olivia S. Mitchell, Youtube – 08/20/2014
- Judd B. Kessler – One way to boost organ donations: Just keep asking, The Washington Post – 08/18/2014
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – The case for a maximum wage, Vox – 08/06/2014
- Joseph Harrington – Smoke Signals: What the Reynolds-Lorillard Merger Means for the Tobacco Industry, Knowledge at Wharton – 07/30/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Savviness Linked to Better 401(k) Returns, Plansponsor – 07/07/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Want to Add 130 Bps to Your Clients’ 401(k) Returns? Educate Them, Think Advisior – 06/30/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Risks of Taking a 401(k) Loan, US News – 06/09/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Financial Sacrifice of Socially Responsible Investing, Wall Street Journal – 06/05/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial knowledge and investment performance. No monkey business?, The Economists – 06/04/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Get smart and get better 401(k) returns, USA Today – 05/26/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Power of Knowledge: Focus on Funds Video, Barrons – 05/21/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Got Knowledge? Informed Investors Get Juicier 401(k) Returns, Barrons – 05/19/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How to Evaluate the Costs of MyRAs, Wall Street Journal – 05/08/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Cost of living as a retirement priority, Bankrate – 05/05/2014
- Joseph Harrington – Silicon Valley’s No-poaching Case: The Growing Debate over Employee Mobility, Knowledge at Wharton – 04/30/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why a sale of PGW makes sense, Philly.com – 04/27/2014
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Study: tax hikes could grow the economy, Vox – 04/20/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The tweeting professors, Daily Pensylvanian – 04/18/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Reading, writing, arithmetic – and financial literacy, The Hill – 04/16/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The 401(k) Loan: America’s Pricey New Piggy Bank, The Fiscal Times – 04/08/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Exchanging Delayed Social Security Benefits for Lump Sums, Youtube – 04/08/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Staggering Statistic Threatening Your Retirement, Time – 04/07/2014
- Benjamin B. Lockwood – Taxation and the distorted allocation of talent, Marginal Revolution – 04/05/2014
- Howard Kunreuther – No easy fix on flood insurance, but experts say options exist to improve program., NPR – 03/24/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – A 401(k) Loan? The Answer Isn’t So Obvious, Wall Street Journal – 03/17/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Low Rates Haven’t Stopped Annuities Sales, Business Week – 03/06/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Boeing Shifts 26,000 Non-Union Workers In The Seattle Region Away From A Pension, KPLU 88.5 – 03/06/2014
- Howard Kunreuther – Maintain the Best Features of Biggert-Waters, The Hill – 03/06/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Advisers Warn Against 401(k) Loans, Wall Street Journal – 03/03/2014
- Howard Kunreuther – Four Tips for Managing Catastrophic Risk, CNBC – 02/14/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Long-Term-Care Coverage Is Right for Me, Wall Street Journal Blog – 02/13/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 10 Ways to Boost Your Retirement Savings, US News – 02/04/2014
- Kent Smetters – A woman quit her job on TV: Good news for the economy?, Market Place – 02/03/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – For Some, Retirement Is Out of Reach. For Others, Boring., NY Times – 01/31/2014
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Secret to Success in a Global Economy, Time – 01/27/2014
2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Millions of Americans lack basic financial literacy, studies show, Los Angles Times – 12/27/2013
- Kent Smetters – A new app wants to make stock trading free for all, Market Place – 12/26/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Realistic Financial Resolutions for 2014, Wall Street Journal – 12/26/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Debt and Retirement, Vanguard Blog – 12/23/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – As pensions vanish, workers forced to adjust, Dallas News – 12/21/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Employer Groups Oppose Pension Fees in Budget Deal, Associated Press – 12/18/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – As Pensions Vanish, Workers Forced to Adjust, Dallas News – 12/18/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Detroit ruling opens door to pension cuts across the nation, LA Times – 12/07/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – College kids who cheat are more likely to want government jobs, Houston Chronicle – 11/20/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – College Kids That Cheat Are More Likely To Want Government Jobs, Business Insider – 11/20/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – Does Government Work Attract Cheaters?, Bloomberg – 11/20/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – Government jobs in India attract corrupt youngsters like a magnet: Study, Times of India – 11/20/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – Cheating students ‘more likely to want a job in Government’, The Independent – 11/19/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – Cheating Students More Likely to Want Government Jobs, Says Study, Sunshine State News – 11/19/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – Cheats want government jobs, research finds, The Telegraph – 11/19/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – Cheating students more likely to want government jobs, study finds, LA Times – 11/18/2013
- Shing-Yi Wang – How a Jump in Home Ownership Boosted Entrepreneurship in China, Knowlege@Wharton – 11/12/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Most Americans accumulating debt faster than they’re saving for retirement, Washington Post – 10/23/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial literacy, Radio Times – 10/21/2013
- Santosh Anagol – How can cows be good savings vehicles?, The Economist – 10/15/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Poll: Half of Older Workers Delay Retirement Plans, ABC News – 10/14/2013
- Santosh Anagol – There’s more to ‘womenomics’ than keeping cows in India, The Guardian – 10/12/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Confusion about Obamacare isn’t unique, MSNBC – 10/10/2013
- Howard Kunreuther – Disaster relief not flowing to flood victims, Pittsburgh Tribune – 10/10/2013
- Joseph Harrington – Jail for Cartels? Answers from the Expert Who Studied the Chicken Cartel, El Mercurio – 10/06/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy, Beyond the Classroom, New York Times – 10/05/2013
- Santosh Anagol – Bad investments do good, The Economist – 10/03/2013
- Joseph Harrington – As Regulators Watch Closely, the World Grows Unfriendlier for Cartels, Institutional Investor – 09/27/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Where did the boomer women go?, Market Place – 09/27/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Advisers have big role helping plan Social Security benefit, Investment News – 09/26/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Mortgage debt a threat for near-retirees, Market Watch – 09/25/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Professor Olivia S. Mitchell Testifies before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Wharton Public Policy Initiative – 09/25/2013
- Santosh Anagol – ‘Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?’, The Atlantic – 09/23/2013
- Santosh Anagol – Cows as safe assets, FT Alphaville – 09/23/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Get an early start on retirement, CNN Money – 09/16/2013
- Kent Smetters – The income annuity puzzle: Why don’t more people use them?, Reuters – 08/19/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Should you pay off your mortgage? Pursue the tactic that offers the highest return on investment, Market Watch – 08/14/2013
- Kent Smetters – Why Don’t Retirees Buy Annuities? They Get Something Most Economists Don’t, Forbes – 08/13/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell: Make Your Youngster Take This Financial Test, Wall Street Journal – 08/01/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why retirement planning requires a really long view, Vanguard – 07/22/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell: Build a Joint ‘Financial Dream’ List, Wall Street Journal – 07/10/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Investing in Gold, Little India – 06/19/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Another Discount Rate Illusion, The Economist – 05/30/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Don’t Get ‘Framed’ When Claiming Social Security, US News – 05/22/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Should U.S. Pay Workers to Delay Social Security?, Wall Street Journal – 05/21/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How to see the world and ‘arbitrage’ your retirement, Reuters – 05/17/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Making a Move Abroad, and Working There, Too, New York Times – 05/16/2013
- Howard Kunreuther – Conservatives can make green choices, Climate News Network – 04/29/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – President Obama looks to reduce Social Security cost of living increases with ‘chained CPI’, Marketplace – 04/05/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Personnel pensions on cutting block, ESPN – 03/20/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How to retire on just $25,000 in the bank, Marketplace – 03/19/2013
- Howard Kunreuther – Rethinking Flood Insurance Post-Sandy, “Here & Now” WESA-FM (NPR, Pittsburgh), – 03/08/2013 Description
Interview with Howard Kunreuther on the preliminary report by the commission set up by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo about how to deal with future extreme storms.
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Boeing’s latest move confirms nationwide trend to end pensions, KPLU – 03/01/2013
- Howard Kunreuther – “Moral hazard” & Sandy relief: Do federal funds invite disaster?, “Radio Times” National Public Radio – 02/26/2013 Description
Critics of federal disaster aid contend that paying for building along the ocean provides an incentive for unsustainable behavior. Marty Moss-Coane’s interview with Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and Scott Gabriel Knowles, Drexel University associate professor of History & Politics. (Audio: http://soundcloud.com/whyy-public-media/the-moral-hazard-sandy-relief).
- Olivia S. Mitchell – U.S. Homeowners Are Repeating Their Mistakes, Business Week – 02/14/2013
- Howard Kunreuther – Improving Insurance Decision Making, Forbes.com – 02/12/2013 Description
Op-ed by Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly, co-authors of Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry.
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Not Ready to Retire, Knowledge at Wharton Today – 02/05/2013
- Kent Smetters – Prof. Kent Smetters warns that huge obligations for #entitlements could be disastrous if they are not tackled soon, Twitter – 01/28/2013
- Robert P. Inman – Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives, Associated Press – 01/27/2013
- Howard Kunreuther – Climate and Risk Management, The Weather Channel, – 01/25/2013 Description
From the World Economic Forum in Davos: Jim Cantore interviews Howard Kunreuther, Wharton Professor of Operations and Information Management (video).
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Inaugural Speech, Part II, Knowledge at Wharton Today – 01/22/2013
- Kent Smetters – Seven Resolutions to Get Your Nest Egg in Shape, Wall Street Journal – 01/14/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Aren’t You Raising Your Financial IQ?, US News – 01/14/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell: Saving Social Security, With Lessons From Down Under, Advisor One – 01/11/2013
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Boeing’s fighting to retire pensions, Business Journal – 01/11/2013
2012
- Kent Smetters – Jobs Report Makes Headlines, Masks Low-Paying Reality, Huffington Post – 12/07/2012
- Howard Kunreuther – Paying for Future Catastrophes, New York Times Sunday Review – 11/25/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Medicare Gaps Leave Many With Big Bill at End of Life, Study Finds, HealthDay – 09/14/2012
- Kent Smetters – Olivia Mitchell, Kent Smetters, Others Reveal Holes in Retirement Advice, Advisor One – 08/17/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell, Kent Smetters, Others Reveal Holes in Retirement Advice, Advisor One – 08/17/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Reforming Jacksonville’s pension plans likely to be a long, hard slog, Jackonville.com – 08/06/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Dr. Olivia S. Mitchell on global financialliteracy – 07/31/2012
- Judd B. Kessler – The Power of Broadcasting Benevolence, Wharton Blog Network – 07/31/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – PwC and Knowledge@Wharton High School to Co-host Business and Financial Responsibility Training Seminar for 150 High School Educators, All Expenses Paid, Wharton News – 07/30/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Is This the Solution to America’s Retirement Crisis?, Next Avenue – 07/27/2012
- Kent Smetters – LPL Unit Buys Veritat, Aims to Bring Financial Planning to Masses, Advisor One – 07/10/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Companies win cut in pension contributions; critics say saving the plans is even bigger worry, Washington Post – 07/09/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – ERISA Advisory Council Meeting Roundup: Annuities, Bloomberg BNA – 06/15/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Reinventing retirement in challenging times, Tentino – 06/02/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Reinventere l’ età della pensione in tempi di grandi sfide?, Economics Festival in Trento, Italy – 06/01/2012
- Kent Smetters – Dr. Kent Smetters: The 2012 IA 25 Extended Profile, Advisor One – 05/25/2012
- Kent Smetters – Courting Gen X now Plan A for advisers, Investment News – 05/07/2012
- Judd B. Kessler – Facebook’s Organ Donation Success Needs Follow-Up, Bloomberg – 05/07/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Changing Face of Retirement, Morning Star – 05/03/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Stop Financial Illiteracy From Endangering Your Retirement, Next Avenue – 05/02/2012
- Joseph Harrington – Economics expert details game theory during Heath lecture, Institutional Investor – 04/27/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Compounding Kiwis and interest rates, Project M – 03/30/2012
- Kent Smetters – Professors present unorthodox ideas at BizTalk, The Daily Pennsylvanian – 02/23/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – GM’s Pension Plan May be Replaced with 401k, Nightly Business Report – 02/16/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – In a calculating, chaotic world, statisticians are almost cool, Philly.com – 02/16/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Lack of financial literacy can hurt retirement, Reuters.com – 02/16/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy Low Among Vulnerable Populations: NBER, AdvisorOne – 02/16/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Long Should I Work Before Retirement?: Delaying retirement can significantly boost your nest egg, Chicago Tribune – 02/14/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 10 Ways to Save Your Retirement, US News – 02/01/2012
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Q&A: How secure are your retiree benefits?, Wall Street Journal – 01/27/2012
- Iwan Barankay – Internal competition at work: Worth the trouble?, Fortune – 01/25/2012
2011
- Judd B. Kessler – 30 Under 30 – Law & Policy, Forbes – 12/19/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – AMR Bankruptcy’s Domino Effect, PBS.org – 12/02/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – You’ll Never Guess Who’s Influencing How You’re Planning For Retirement, Business Insider – 11/15/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Co-Workers Influence Your 401(k) Choices, US News – 11/14/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Poll: Boomers anxiety about retirement grows, MercuryNews.com – 11/10/2011
- Kent Smetters – Is student loan, education bubble next?, WJLA.com – 11/06/2011
- Joseph Harrington – Trying to bust cartels, NHH Bulletin – 11/03/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Editorial, 11/2: Good for grandma, but worries mount, JournalStar – 11/01/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – New Rules for Retirement, Institutional Investor – 11/01/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The debt fallout: How Social Security went ‘cash negative’ earlier than expected, Washington Post – 10/29/2011
- Judd B. Kessler – Researchers look to optimize donations in the United States, The Daily Pennsylvanian – 10/24/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – What Women Can Teach Us About Money, Forbes.com – 10/21/2011
- Judd B. Kessler – Something for the weekend, Financial Times – 10/21/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Leakage, ProManage – 10/09/2011
- Kent Smetters – Should Top B-Schools Disclose Grades?, Businessweek – 10/04/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – RIIA names winners of the 2011 Excellence in Communications awards, Investment News – 10/03/2011
- Kent Smetters – Treasury Yield Is 7 Basis Points From Record Low on Fed Outlook, Businessweek – 09/21/2011
- Kent Smetters – Smetters Sees Risk of U.S. Double-Dip Economic Recession: Video, Bloomberg – 09/20/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell comenta por qué los consumidores jóvenes deberían limitar el gasto, YouTube – 09/19/2011
- Kent Smetters – GOP candidates revive private Social Security idea, Daily Journal – 09/17/2011
- Kent Smetters – NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, NBER – 09/17/2011
- Kent Smetters – Beware of Wall Street’s latest ‘safe’ investment, CNNMoney – 08/30/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Steve Forbes Interview: Olivia Mitchell, Pension And Retirement Expert, Forbes.com – 08/29/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement Advice: Don’t Get Old, Don’t Get Sick, Don’t Retire, Forbes.com – 08/26/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Optimal Portfolio Choice over the Life Cycle with Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Lifetime Payouts, Oxford Journal – 08/26/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Ed Schultz says Social Security lifts more than a million Floridians out of poverty, PolitFact.com – 08/25/2011
- Judd B. Kessler – Pay to Play: Should Registered Organ Donors Get Priority as Recipients?, Freakonomics Blog – 08/23/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Gender and Personality Count in the Age of Who-Pays-Wins Retirement, Knowledge@Australian School of Business – 08/16/2011
- Kent Smetters – Why Standard & Poor’s Downgrade of U.S. Debt Was a No-brainer, Knowledge@Wharton Today – 08/12/2011
- Iwan Barankay – Franc-ly Speaking, Swiss Currency Is Too Strong, NPR – 08/11/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Baby boomers fret about the rising cost of aging, Philly.com – 07/31/2011
- Kent Smetters – What A Credit Ratings Cut Could Mean For The U.S., NPR.org – 07/26/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell discusses financial literacy at the Global Corporate Center, Global Corporate Center – 07/14/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Top Women in Wealth in 2011, Advisor One – 07/12/2011
- Kent Smetters – Wall Street Calm as Rhetoric Over Debt Ceiling Raises Heat in D.C., US News – 07/01/2011
- Kent Smetters – Wall Street Calm as Rhetoric Over Debt Ceiling Raises Heat in D.C., US News – 07/01/2011
- Kent Smetters – Anatomy of a Debt Default in the United States, ABC News – 06/29/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Squared Away Blog: Frontiers in Financial Literacy, Financial Security Project – 06/28/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Should Social Security set a higher age qualification to receive benefits?, Penn Population Studies Center – 06/27/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Engines and the Pension Research Council Host Second Annual Retirement Income Summit, Traders Huddled – 06/21/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 3 Questions That Predict Your Retirement Readiness, US News – 06/10/2011
- Joseph Gyourko – US Job Relocation Activity Picks Up Sharply, The Financial Times – 06/02/2011
- Kent Smetters – Costly Haravest, Financial Planning – 06/01/2011
- Kent Smetters – Get ready for Social Security, Medicare meltdowns, Market Watch – 05/19/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Begin Social Security Benefits for the Right Reasons, Money – 05/13/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Report Rebuffs Arguments for Privatizing Social Security, Plan Sponsor – 05/09/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Http://www.advisorone.com/article/olivia-mitchell-international-foundation-employee-benefit-plans-extended-2011-ia-25-profile, Advisor One – 04/28/2011
- Joseph Gyourko – Revisiting the ‘Holy Grail’ of Home Ownership, WHYY.org – 04/18/2011
- Kent Smetters – Sage Financial invests in Wharton professor’s creation, Philadelphia Business Journal – 04/07/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Over to you: Workers need to fend for themselves, The Economist – 04/07/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Loan Defaults Costly for Certain Group of Participants, Plan Sponsor – 04/01/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Paying for Risk and Insurance Higher Ed, Risk & Insurance – 04/01/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Nine reasons to be optimistic about retirement, Market Watch – 03/25/2011
- Joseph Gyourko – A Dream Endangered. (Yeah, So?), National Journal.com – 03/17/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Workplace change spurs ‘pension envy’, NewsDay.com – 03/10/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – (k)Plans:Frame of Reference, Plan Sponsor – 03/08/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pension Envy: Anger Brews Over Government Workers’ Benefits, NBC4i.com – 03/08/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Anger brews over government workers’ benefits, Courierpostonline – 03/08/2011
- Kent Smetters – Veritat Advisors President Kent Smetters over Fox Business “The Willis Report”, Logic and Legal Business – 03/06/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pensions or 401(k)s: Which is better?, Market Place – 03/04/2011
- Joseph Gyourko – When The Roof Fell In, The Economist – 03/03/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell on Why Young Consumers Should Just Say No to Spending, Knowledge@Wharton High School – 03/03/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Debate Heats Up Over Public And Private Pensions, NPR.org – 02/25/2011
- Kent Smetters – Social Security: Are We in Crisis Mode Yet?, Knowledge@Wharton Today – 02/21/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How to Get Paid $850 for Getting Healthy, Money Watch – 02/09/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 7 Reasons You Don’t Have a Pension, US News – 02/07/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Savers’ impatience hinders retirement goals, Market Watch – 02/07/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 4 Traditional Money Rules to Break Now, Smart Money – 02/07/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why We’re Not Wired for Successful Retirements, US News – 02/02/2011
- Olivia S. Mitchell – New Jersey’s $53M Pension Problem, Fox 29 News – 01/04/2011
- Kent Smetters – A different approach to high-tech planning, InvestmentNews – 01/02/2011
2010
- Howard Kunreuther – In a networked world, no longer controlling our own destinies, The Washington Post – 12/29/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Redefining Retirement, AdvisorOne – 12/28/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy, KOTA Territory News – 12/27/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Investment books for budding Warren Buffetts, Market Watch – 12/23/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Trend of late retirement might be a good thing, Market Place – 12/22/2010
- Kent Smetters – Http://www.hemscott.com/news/comment-archive/item.do?id=119131, HEMSCOTT – 12/20/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – 3 Reasons Your Boss Should WANT You to Keep Working Past 60, Money Watch – 12/20/2010
- Iwan Barankay – What managers should keep in mind before giving out year-end bonuses., BusinessWeek – 12/17/2010
- Kent Smetters – Is It Time to Invest in Fine Wine?, AdvisorOne – 12/12/2010
- Kent Smetters – Look Before You Reap: Tax-Loss Harvesting Can Backfire, The Wall Street Journal – 12/11/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Why Women Risk Retirement Disaster, and How They Can Avoid It, AdvisorOne – 12/08/2010
- Kent Smetters – Veritat offers web-based financial planning for everyone, VentureBeat – 11/22/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Medication nation: Are baby boomers declining, or just whining?, Philly.com – 11/18/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Politicians helped bring Chicago’s public pension funds to the brink, Chicago Tribune – 11/16/2010
- Kent Smetters – Health Care Impications of the Mid-Term Elections, Yidio – 11/11/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – ‘Retirewent’…and how to get it back, AdvisorOne – 10/26/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy Brigades, AdvisorOne – 10/26/2010
- Kent Smetters – National debt crisis: how to raise revenue, Medill Washington – 10/07/2010
- Joseph Gyourko – The Housing Bubble Trouble, National University of Singapore’s Institute of Real Estate Studies. The Straits Times – 09/29/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Who Says Women Can’t Get Rich Investing?, The Motley Fool – 09/28/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – How Boomers Can Act Now to Repair Their Nest Egg, US News – 09/15/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Olivia Mitchell to Get RIIA Award at Annual Meeting, Business Week – 09/03/2010
- Kent Smetters – Veritat Offers Comprehensive, Fee-Only Financial Planning Services that are Affordable and Scalable, Annuit Digest – 09/01/2010
- Joseph Gyourko – Can Interest Rates Explain the U.S. Housing Boom and Bust?, VOX-EU with Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb – 08/28/2010
- Joseph Gyourko – Devalued Homes Anchor Prospective Job Seekers, NPR, “Morning Edition” – 08/26/2010
- Kent Smetters – Preparing for the Next ‘Black Swan’, The Wall Street Journal – 08/21/2010
- Kent Smetters – Veritat Advisors President Kent Smetters on Fox Business “The Willis Report”, The Willis Report – 08/18/2010
- Joseph Gyourko – Did Low Interest Rates Cause the Great Housing Convulsion?, Economix, New York Times – 08/03/2010
- Joseph Gyourko – Just How Risky Are China’s Housing Markets?, VOX-EU, with Yongheng Deng, Jing Wu – 07/28/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The 2010 Martin Feldstein Lecture – National Bureau of Economic Research, TIAA-CREF – 07/28/2010
- Kent Smetters – Will the Economic Recovery Run Out of Steam?, Retail Chile – 07/21/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Retirement Income Gap Poses Another Challenge for Women, The Huffington Post – 07/21/2010
- Robert P. Inman – 4 reasons why Texas beats California in a recession, Fortune – 07/13/2010
- Santosh Anagol – Column: What are you paying your mutual fund?, Financial Express – 07/13/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy, 2010 Wharton Impact Conference – 07/13/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Intriguing People of the Week, CNN – 07/13/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Fix Social Security by hiking retirement age: A lawmaker suggests raising the retirement age to 70 — and experts agree, Market Watch – 07/02/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Calpers and risk: Together forever?, Fortune – 06/30/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Economy’s Lasting Impact on Your Retirement, U.S. News – 06/28/2010
- Robert P. Inman – Unemployment, not budget practices, to blame for state woes, Washington Post – 06/22/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pension Cuts Face Test in Colorado, Minnesota, Wall Street Journal – 06/11/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – National Retirement Expert: 75 needs to be the new 62, CBSMoneyWatch.com – 06/02/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Defaulting on Yourself: Who Loses at 401k Loans?, RAND – 06/01/2010
- Howard Kunreuther – What the volcano taught me, Washington Post – 05/10/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Living Longer, Planning Better, Thestate.com – 05/09/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The Savings Sweepstakes, Reirement Income Journal – 05/05/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Who are the 50 Top Women in Wealth?, Wealth Manager – 05/04/2010
- Kent Smetters – Insurance Studies Institute Hosts Successful Fundraising Breakfast in Washington D.C., Insurance Studies Institute – 05/03/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy Center, A Joint Center for RAND, Dartmouth College, and The Wharton School, Financial Literacy Center – 03/15/2010
- Mark V. Pauly – American Morning, CNN – 03/10/2010
- Kent Smetters – Insurance Studies Institute Welcomes New Advisory Board Members, Insurance Studies Institute – 03/02/2010
- Robert P. Inman – Public Policy Gains a Foothold at B-School, BusinessWeek.com – 03/01/2010
- Mark V. Pauly – Morning Edition, NPR – 02/15/2010
- Howard Kunreuther – Overcoming our disaster myopia in Haiti, The Washington Post – 01/19/2010
- Olivia S. Mitchell – America’s Financial Illiteracy, Forbes.com – 01/10/2010
2009
- Joseph Gyourko – Re-thinking American Dream Of Home Ownership, NPR, “Talk of the Nation” – 12/15/2009
- Joseph Gyourko – 5 myths about home sweet homeownership, Washington Post – 11/15/2009
- Kent Smetters – Social Security Strained by Early Retirements, Myway.com – 09/27/2009
- Howard Kunreuther – “At War with Ourselves”, Risk & Insurance Magazine – 09/01/2009
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy: The Time Is Now, BusinessWeek.com – 07/22/2009
- Joseph Harrington – A Blow to Free Competition in the Chilean Pharmaceutical Industry, Knowledge at Wharton – 05/06/2009
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Pension Problems, Here and Now, WBUR Radio – 04/10/2009
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Financial Literacy, Reirement Planning, and Retirement Wellbeing: Lessons and Research Gaps, The Retirement Security Project – 03/20/2009
- Olivia S. Mitchell – New Strategies for Retirement, 4G Wireless Evolution – 03/12/2009
- Howard Kunreuther – “Focus on Hazards and Climate Change”, Natural Hazards Observer – 03/02/2009
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Video on Crisis and Risk Management, Financial Times – 01/30/2009
2008
- Howard Kunreuther – “Anticipating risks, averting the worst: 3 steps for natural disaster or corporate calamity”, The Philadelphia Inquirer – 12/16/2008
- Joseph Harrington – Cartel Talk, Slate – 12/10/2008
- Olivia S. Mitchell – Stocks Are Less of Your Net Worth Than You Think, Wall Street Journal Online – 12/02/2008
- Kent Smetters – The Fairness Issue: How to Cope with the Flood of Foreclosures, Knowlege@Wharton – 11/26/2008
- Kent Smetters – Dear President-elect Obama: Here’s How to Get the Economy out of the Ditch, Knowlege@Wharton – 11/12/2008
- Kent Smetters – A Billion Here, A Trillion There: Calculating the Cost of Wall Street’s Rescue, Knowlege@Wharton – 10/29/2008
- Kent Smetters – How the Credit Crisis Could Forge a New Financial Order, Knowlege@Wharton – 10/15/2008
- Kent Smetters – Avoiding the Tough Issues: The Candidates on Health Care and Entitlements, Knowlege@Wharton – 10/15/2008
- Olivia S. Mitchell – The $700 Billion Question: How Much Is That Exotic Security?, Knowlege@Wharton – 10/01/2008
- Howard Kunreuther – “Flirting with Disaster”, Forbes – 02/11/2008 Description
How long-term insurance can help homeowners in hurricane zones save money and protect themselves at the same time.
2007
- Howard Kunreuther – “What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness?” A Freakonomics Quorum, New York Times – 11/09/2007 Description
Howard Kunreuther was asked by the New York Times’ Freakonomics blogger, Stephen Dubner, to respond to the question,”What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness?” A Freakonomics Quorum.
- Howard Kunreuther – “Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane?”, Radio Station 99.5fm New Orleans – 09/07/2007 Description
Howard Kunreuther is interviewed about his New York Times op-ed, “Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane?”
- Howard Kunreuther – “Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane?”, New York Times – 08/25/2007 Description
Howard Kunreuther authored an op-ed on financing the costs of natural disasters.
2006
- Jean Lemaire – Efforts Are Growing to Trim the Fat from Employees — and Employers’ Health Care Costs, Knowlege@Wharton – 11/01/2006
- Howard Kunreuther – SNL Interactive, Q&A: Howard Kunreuther, SNL Financial – 07/17/2006 Description
The Risk Center’s Howard Kunreuther is interviewed by Thames Schoenvogel of SNL Financial about the history of the Risk Center and its current Natural Disaster Insurance Project.
- Neil A Doherty – Leveraging Risk Management, Knowlege@Wharton – 03/01/2006
2005
- Neil A Doherty – Are Eliot Spitzer’s Insurance Lawsuits Hitting the Wrong Targets?, Knowlege@Wharton – 10/19/2005
- Neil A Doherty – The Financial Risks of Terrorism: Balancing Public and Private Roles, Knowlege@Wharton – 09/07/2005
- Howard Kunreuther – Insuring Against Terror, Pennsylvania Gazette – 07/01/2005 Description
The Wharton School’s Howard Kunreuther spent four decades studying ways to manage the risks of floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, chemical accidents, and other natural and technological disasters. Then came 9/11, “the ultimate low-probability event.”
- Jean Lemaire – Insurance, Life Expectancy and the Cost of Firearm Deaths in the U.S., Knowlege@Wharton – 06/15/2005
- Neil A Doherty – A Finger on the Pulse of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett, Knowlege@Wharton – 06/01/2005
- Neil A Doherty – Can AIG Stay on Top?, Knowlege@Wharton – 06/01/2005
- Howard Kunreuther – Crisis behavior is a mystery – A new 9/11 study renews focus on why some act and others don’t in an emergency, Philadelphia Inquirer – 05/08/2005
- Jean Lemaire – In the Tsunami’s Wake: How Best to Respond, Knowlege@Wharton – 01/28/2005
2001
- Jean Lemaire – How Will Insurers Deal With Their Most Expensive Catastrophe?, Knowlege@Wharton – 09/26/2001
2000
- Jean Lemaire – Genetic Testing’s Uneasy Relationship with Life Insurance, Knowlege@Wharton – 03/01/2000
Faculty Index
Standing
Secondary
- David S. Abrams
- Tom Baker
- Iwan Barankay
- Fernando Ferreira
- Joseph Gyourko
- Scott E. Harrington
- Jean Lemaire
- Marc Meredith
- Mark V. Pauly
- Chris Sanchirico
- Todd Sinai
Emeritus
- W. Bruce Allen
- David F Babbel
- Elizabeth E. Bailey
- John David Cummins
- Neil A Doherty
- Gerald R. Faulhaber
- Robert P. Inman
- Howard Kunreuther
- Howard Pack
- Jerry S Rosenbloom
- Arie P. Schinnar
- Anita A. Summers
In Memoriam
- G. Victor Hallman
- Dan M. McGill
- Janet Rothenberg Pack