Research At SCEPA
The Need for More Social Security and Secure Pensions
RELAB POLICY NOTE | Financialized retirement systems, like defined contribution (DC) plans in the U.S., shift market risk away from employers and governments to individuals.
Innovations in Protecting the Old
RELAB WORKING PAPER | Currently, there is an ideological commitment to individual asset building and an emphasis on individual wealth for retirement and superannuation.
Consequences of Financializing Pensions
RELAB WORKING PAPER | Income in retirement has become increasingly based on individual financial assets rather than from Social Security.
Implications of the Recent Financial Crisis for Innovation
WORKING PAPER | Authors claim there is a justifiable concern about the long-term nature of the economic stagnation experienced today.
Financial and Real Markets Pull Each Other Down; How Can Policy Reverse This?
WORKING PAPER | The causes of the present crisis are largely to be found in the unregulated development of new financial products and in the over-expansion of the financial sector.
Shifting Sources and Uses of Profits
WORKING PAPER | This paper explores the interdependence of the processes of the globalization of production and financialization, to link the issue of corporate governance to supply-chain governance.