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Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans / Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola, Stephen P. Utkus, Takeshi Yamaguchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Olivia S.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15108.
- NBER working paper series no. w15108
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Default, Framing and Spillover Effects The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401
- Default, Framing and Spillover Effects
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- Important behavioral factors such as default and framing effects are increasingly being employed to optimize decision-making in a variety of settings, including individually-directed retirement plans. Yet such approaches may have unintended "spillover" effects, as we show with regard to the introduction of lifecycle funds in U.S. 401(k) plans. As anticipated, lifecycle funds do reshape individual portfolio choices through large default and framing effects. But unexpectedly, they also create a new class of investors which holds these funds as part of more complex portfolios. Our results are directly relevant to those interested in retirement plan design and retirement security; they also highlight the importance of assessing such spillover effects in other consequential settings where behavioral economics techniques may be employed.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2009.
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