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Roel Mehlkopf

Ph.D. Candidate in Finance

Roel Mehlkopf is a specialist in the field of pensions and retirement. His research is concerned with risk sharing in pension funds, life-cycle investment strategies and retirement decision making. In september 2010, Roel joined CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Dutch public think tank for economic policy research. Previously, he was a Ph.D student at Tilburg University and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Roel's Ph.D. thesis on intergenerational risk sharing is expected to appear in October. Roel is also a research fellow at Netspar, the network for pensions, ageing and retirement. He also teaches at Tilburg University in the Master program Economics and Finance of Ageing. He has acted as a referee for various academic journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance and International Finance

Click here for his Curriculum Vitae with publication list.

Coordinates at Tilburg University

Phone: +31(0)134663614
Email: r.j.mehlkopf@uvt.nl

Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management
Economics department, Room K426
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands

Coordinates at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Phone: +31(0)70 3386173
Email: r.j.mehlkopf@cpb.nl

Division:Labor market and welfare state, Room 338
PO Box 80510
2508 GM The Hague
The Netherlands

Advisors

Prof. dr. Lans Bovenberg and Prof. dr. Frank de Jong

Research interests

General: Household finance, portfolio choice, public economics, labor economics

Specific: Risk sharing in pension systems, life-cycle models, retirement decision making

 

 

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