Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS)

• Derisking Sensitivity and Economic Downturn Stress Test (FY 2017)
• ME-PIMS Mass Withdrawal Assumptions Memo 
• ME-PIMS Sensitivity Tests: Employment growth, Solvency parameters, Wage Base floor (FY 2014) 
• Projection of Levels of Future Active Participants in Multiemployer Plans (FY2013)
• Examination of Multiemployer Funding – Rehabilitation Plans (FY2013)
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• How Do PIMS Results Reflect Varying Rates of Return? (FY2013)
• A brief history of PIMS (FY2012)
• PIMS overview (FY2011)
• The Cost of Pension Insurance, Including Bankruptcy Probability Modeling Methods and Results (2002)
• Models for retirement policy analysis, Chapter 11: PIMS (1999)

Third Party PIMS Users

• Congressional Budget Office
• Society of Actuaries

Publications

• The Rising Tide of Pension Contributions Post-2013: How Much and When?
• Stretching the Corridor: The Effects of Extended Rate Stabilization on Defined Benefit Plan Funding Requirements
• Observations on Input and Output Smoothing: How do they affect the funding of defined benefit plans
• Proposed Pension Funding Stabilization: How Does It Affect the Single-Employer Defined Benefit System?
• The Rising Tide of Pension Contributions Post-2008: How much and when?

• MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY2017)
• MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY2016)
• MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY2015)
• MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY2014)
• MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY2013)
• Review of ME-PIMS (FY2012)