1. Retirement Security and the Financial Economic Crisis: An Overview - Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell and Mark J. Warshawsky Part I. Rethinking retirement in the new economic era 2. Changing Retirement Behavior in the Wake of the Financial Crisis - Julia Coronado and Karen Dynan 3. Potential Impacts of the Great Recession on Future Retirement Incomes - Barbara A. Butrica, Richard W. Johnson, and Karen E. Smith 4. Effects of the Economic Crisis on the Older Population: How Expectations, Consumption, Bequests, and Retirement by the Older Population Responded to Market Shocks - Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder 5. Retirement Behavior and the Global Financial Crisis - Jason J. Fichtner, John W.R. Phillips, and Barbara A. Smith Part II. Rethinking the resilience of defined contribution plans 6. Trading in 401(k) Plans During the Financial Crisis - Ning Tang, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Stephen P. Utkus 7. Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial Crisis on Optimal Consumption-Portfolio Choices and Labor Supply - Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla 8. A Stress Test for the Private Employer Defined Contribution System - David Wray Part III. How defined benefit plans handled the financial crisis 9. Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans and the Financial Crisis: Impact and Sponsor and Government Reactions - Mark Warshawsky 10. Multiemployer Pension Plans in the Financial Crisis - Judith F. Mazo and Eli Greenblum 11. Adopting Hybrid Pension Plans: Effects of Economic Crisis and Regulatory Reform - Robert L. Clark, Alan Glickstein, and Tomeka Hill 12. Collective Pensions and the Global Financial Crisis: The Case of the Netherlands - Lans Bovenberg and Theo Nijman 13. How Have Public Sector Pensions Responded to the Financial Crisis? - Andrew G. Bigg