Founded in 1999 as a joint project of the University of Turin and the Compagnia di San Paolo, CeRP is the first research centre in Italy (and one of the first in Europe) with a specific focus on pension economics and the economics of ageing.

The main research topics include pension systems design, reform and evaluation; households’ saving; retirement patterns, paths and choices; life insurance and annuities; intra/intergenerational redistribution induced by different pension systems; public policies and incentives towards retirement savings; intergenerational accounting; welfare policies directed at the elderly; participation in supplementary pensions; governance and financial aspects of pension funds.

Research is performed both at the micro and at the macro level, and a special attention is devoted to policy aspects.

CeRP is a research centre of the Collegio Carlo Alberto.