Rentseeking in Private Pensions

This book argues that the implementation of compulsory, highly regulated, privately administered, defined contribution pensions facilitates rent-seeking behaviour on the part of the pension fund administrators and undermines the retirees' income and well-being.

"This is an important, innovative, intelligent book about how welfare markets are made and remade in the EU. Integrating insights from sociological theories of markets and marketization, the book’s analytical framework emphasizes the actions of non-state actors – consumers, employers, firms and workers – in welfare market dynamics. This framework, together with the book’s methodologically diverse and empirically rich case studies, offers a strong foundation and clear agenda for future research on welfare marketization, wherever it happens." — Gabrielle Meagher, Macquarie University, Australia

"This is an important, innovative, intelligent book about how welfare markets are made and remade in the EU. Integrating insights from sociological theories of markets and marketization, the book’s analytical framework emphasizes the actions of non-state actors – consumers, employers, firms and workers – in welfare market dynamics. This framework, together with the book’s methodologically diverse and empirically rich case studies, offers a strong foundation and clear agenda for future research on welfare marketization, wherever it happens." — Gabrielle Meagher, Macquarie University, Australia

This book highlights the importance of optional choice of court agreements, and the need for future research and legal development in this area. The law relating to choice of court agreements has developed significantly in recent years, reflecting their increased use in practice. However, most recent legal developments concern exclusive choice of court agreements. In comparison, optional choice of court agreements, also called permissive forum selection clauses and non-exclusive jurisdiction clauses, have attracted little attention from lawmakers or commentators.

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