Retirement Saving and Spending over the Lifecycle - ECON5136
Faculty: Australian School of Business
School: School of Economics
Course Outline: ECON5136 Course outline
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Topics covered include: a taxonomy of the lifecycle; lifecycle theories of consumption and saving; investment strategy, human capital and the retirement decision: risks facing individual retirees and providers of retirement income products (investment risk, longevity risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, replacement risk); market failure in the retirement benefit market; behavioural explanations for non-rational behaviour including myopia, procrastination, mental accounting, complexity, framing, loss aversion etc.