From June 29thto 30th, 2018, the inaugural NBER-SAIF Conference was held at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). This marked the kick-off of the 10-year collaboration between SAIF and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
The theme of this event was “Retirement Protection: Public and Commercial Annuities”. The two-day conference brought together outstanding representatives from both home and abroad. It not only turned the event into an academic festival, but also enabled cross-border thinking of retirement protection solutions in China. During the conference, a total of six leading economists and eight scholars from NBER presented their papers, reviewed the status quo and challenges of China's retirement protection system, and learnt from each other's experiences and lessons. Nearly 100 participants from Chinese and international institutions and industry attended the event.
NBER representatives included: Prof. James Poterba, NBER Chairman and Professor of Economics at MIT; Prof. Hanming Fang, Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania; Prof. Alan Auerbach, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley; Prof. Olivia Mitchell, Executive Director of the Wharton Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania; Prof. Shangjin Wei, Professor of Economics at Columbia University; and Prof. Robert Clark, Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University. Prof. Jiang Wang, Chair of Faculty Council at SAIF; Prof. Chun Chang, Executive Dean and Professor of Finance at SAIF; and Prof. Hong Yan, Associate Dean and Professor of Finance at SAIF and Associate Director of China Academy of Financial Research at SJTU attended the conference, which was presided over by Prof. Yan.
About the NBER-SAIF series of conferences.
The NBER-SAIF series of conferences are a set of biennial conferences jointly organized by SAIF and NBER. The NBER-SAIF conferences are designed: to build a broader research community on the economics of public policies, with particular reference to the policies that bear on financial markets in China and other emerging economies; to share rigorous, currents research by NBER and SAIF researchers, leading international scholars and policy experts; and to promote research on economic policy issues of interest to both China and the United States.
