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Pension Funding, Share Prices, and National Savings
Published: 09/01/1981 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb04885.x
MARTIN FELDSTEIN, STEPHANIE SELIGMAN
This paper examines empirically the effect of unfunded pension obligations on corporate share prices and discusses the implications of these estimates for national saving, the decline of the stock market in recent years, and the rationality of corporate financial behavior. The analysis uses the information on inflation‐adjusted income and assets which large firms were required to provide for 1976 and subsequent years.