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Inconsistent Retirement Timing

View ORCID ProfileChristoph Merkle, View ORCID ProfilePhilipp Schreiber and View ORCID ProfileMartin Weber
Journal of Human Resources, May 2024, 59 (3) 929-974; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0920-11215R2
Christoph Merkle
Christoph Merkle is an associate professor of finance at Aarhus University and a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute (corresponding author: ).
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Philipp Schreiber is a full professor of finance at Esslingen University.
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Martin Weber is a senior professor of finance at the University of Mannheim and a research fellow at the CEPR.
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