Tabea Bucher-Koenen

Tabea Bucher-Koenen is affiliated with ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA).

Her research focuses on financial literacy, pension planning, and saving behavior. She investigates how financial knowledge affects wealth accumulation across demographic groups and how pension planning influences economic outcomes. Her work examines the role of digital tools in simplifying complex pension information systems.

Recent research demonstrates that access to digital pension aggregation tools decreases pension uncertainty and increases average savings, with particularly strong effects for financially less literate individuals. This suggests simplification of pension information can reduce disparities in financial planning behavior.

Dr. Bucher-Koenen's work contributes significantly to household finance research, behavioral economics, and evidence-based policy design for retirement systems.