Annika Sundén
Research Associate
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Background
Annika Sundén is a Research Associate at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and Chief of the Research Unit at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. Her research interests include the economics of retirement, pensions and social security, and household savings behavior. Previously, Dr. Sundén was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, where she was involved in the design and implementation of the Survey of Consumer Finances.
Dr. Sundén earned her B.S. from the Stockholm School of Economics and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in labor economics from Cornell University.
Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research
Completed
"401(k) Plans Are Still Coming Up Short" (with Alicia H. Munnell), Issue in Brief, #43, March 2006,
"Investment Choice in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan" (with Marten Palme and Paul Soderlind), Working Paper, #2005-06, April 2005.
"How Do Individual Accounts Work in the Swedish Pension System?" Issue in Brief, #22, August 2004.
"Suspending the Employer 401(k) Match" Issue in Brief, #12, June 2003.
"How Will the Rise in 401(k) Plans Affect Bequests?"(with Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, and Catherine Taylor), Issue in Brief #10, November 2002.
"401(k)s and Company Stock: How Can We Encourage Diversification?"(with Alicia H. Munnell), Issue in Brief #9, July 2002.
"How Important are Private Pensions?"(with Alicia H. Munnell and Elizabeth Lidstone), Issue in Brief, #8, February 2002.
"The Impact of the Growth of Defined Contribution Plans on Bequests" (With Alicia Munnell), Conference Paper, October 2001
"What Determines 401(k) Participation and Contributions?" (with Alicia H. Munnell and Catherine Taylor), Working Paper, #2000-12, December 2000.
"Household Borrowing from 401(k) Plans" (with Brian Surette), Just the Facts, #1, June 2000.
"Portfolio Choice, Trading, and Returns in a Large 401(k) Plan"(with Julie Agnew and Pierluigi Balduzzi), Working Paper, #2000-06, May 2000.
"How Will Sweden’s New Pension System Work?" Issue in Brief, #3, March 2000.
"Investment Practices of State and Local Pension Funds: Implications for Social Security Reform" (with Alicia H. Munnell), Working Paper, #2000-01, April 1999.
Dr. Sundén is involved in the Center's research activities through consultation and participation in conferences.
Selected Publications
- Sundén, Annika. 2006. “The Swedish Experience with Pension Reform” The Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 22, no 1, Spring
- Munnell, Alicia H. and Annika Sundén. 2004. Coming Up Short: The Challenge of 401(k) Plans, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
- Agnew, Julie, Pierluigi Balduzzi and Annika Sundén. 2003. “Portfolio Choice, Trading and Returns in a Large 401k) Plan,” American Economic Review, 93(1)
- Sundén, Annika and Brian J. Surette. 1998. "Gender Differences in the Allocation of Assets in Retirement Savings Plans," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 88(2)
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