Gathering Storm: The Risks of State Pension Underfunding
October 19-20, 2017
Harvard University, Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Links: Overview map | Google map | Loeb House
AGENDA (as of Oct 17) | Bios of Speakers
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS available for review - password required:
- Andrew Biggs: Public Employee Pensions: Liabilities and Affordability | Presentation
- Donald Boyd: The Reforms That Public Pensions Really Need
- Michael Cembalest: The ARC and the Covenants: the Pension and OPEB burdens of states, cities and counties | Presentation
- Gang Chen, David S.T. Matkin, and Hyewon Kang: The Impact of Future Investment Returns on Public Pension Costs and Liabiliities | Presentation
- Mark Dingley: Rhode Island Retirement Security Reform | Presentation
- David Draine: Public Pension Underfunding in Five Troubled States
- James Farrell and Daniel Shoag: Risky Choices: Simulating Public Pension Funding Stress with Realistic Shocks | Presentation
- Leonard Gilroy: Getting to Yes on Pension Reform through Collaboration and Choice: Arizona | Presentation
- Josh Gotbaum: Public Pensions –Session VII:Obstacles, Opportunities & Prescriptions
- Andrew Haughwout and Robert Inman: The How’s, the Why’s, and the Consequences of State and Local Deficits | Presentation
- Tom Healey: New Jersey Case Study | Presentation
- Deborah Lucas: Towards Fair Value Accounting for Public Pensions: The Case for Delinking Disclosure and Funding Requirements | Presentation
- Josh McGee: Protect Workers and Taxpayers by Improving State & Local Retirement Policy | Presentation
- Greg Mennis, Susan Banta, and David Draine: Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions: State Stress Test Analysis | Presentation
- Amy Monahan: Legal Obstacles to Changing Benefits | Presentation
- Alicia Munnell: Improving Funding for a Diverse Universe of Public Pensions
- Joshua Rauh: Transitioning from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Pensions in the Public Sector | Presentation
- Jim Spiotto: When Needed Public Pension Reforms Fail or Appear to Be Legally Impossible, What Then?
- Eugene Steuerle: The Macro Implications of State Pension Design | Presentation
- Tom Terry: Examining the Measurement Arguments from Both Sides | Presentation
- Marcia Van Wagner: Stress-testing the states | Presentation
- Antonio Weiss: Public Pension Crisis in Puerto Rico
- Kurt Winkelmann: Low Growth Equals Low Returns | The End of Asset Price Reflation? | Presentation
This conference was made possible, in part, by the generous contributions of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.