Faculty in the News

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
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
Katja Seim – FCC taps Penn professor for economist role, The Hill – 06/10/2016
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

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