2018 Workshop
May 18-20, 2017
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University; Logan, Utah.
The annual QSPS Summer Workshop takes place in a selective setting in which 12 to 15 participants each have one hour to present and discuss research. This format and selective setting facilitates in-depth peer feedback, while interacting extensively with other workshop participants and guests.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
John Leahy is the Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Michigan, and he currently serves as a Co-Editor of the American Economic Review. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. John has contributed to the fields of economic theory, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics, and his research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Journal, Review of Economics & Statistics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives, among several other outlets.
Dan Silverman currently holds the Rondthaler Family Endowed Professorship at Arizona State University, and he currently serves as a Co-Editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He also serves as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a Faculty Associate of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. Dan studies a wide variety of topics including decision making over the life cycle in response to the institutional features of transfer programs such as social security. He also has an established record of conducting research at the intersection of behavioral economics and public economics. His published research has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets such as Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economics Letters, and the Journal of Economic Inequality.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Quantitative Society for Pensions and Saving (QSPS) invites the submission of theoretical, computational, and/or empirical research papers that examine various aspects of life-cycle decision making. Workshop topics typically include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following areas of study:
- Life-cycle decision making concerning consumption, saving, and labor supply.
- Public and private pension design/reform, and related issues such as annuitization.
- Standard and non-standard (behavioral) models of life-cycle decision making.
- Distribution of income and wealth as a function of age.
- Demographic transitions in the age and skill structure of the population.
- Debt, borrowing, mortgage contracts, housing, uncertainty about future income, health investment.
- Methods for computing life-cycle and overlapping-generations models in partial equilibrium or general equilibrium.
Send papers electronically to T. Scott Findley (Utah State University) at tscott.findley@usu.edu. Full, although not necessarily finished papers are required for submission. Abstracts alone will not be considered. Submitted papers will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance decisions will be made on a rolling basis.
TRAVEL, ACCOMODATIONS, AND MEALS:
Participants are responsible for their own expenses regarding travel and accomodations. See the link Travel & Accomodations for more information on booking accomodations and traveling to and from Logan, Utah. All meals are provided for participants for the entire duration of the workshop, compliments of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.
REGISTRATION AND WORKSHOP FEES:
No registration fees are required.
Location:
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Visitors enjoy world-class scenery just minutes from campus. Easy access to hiking, biking, fishing, camping, boating and other sight-seeing opportunities in the mountains. Logan is truly an outdoor paradise for those who are enthusiastic about the mountains, providing everything from gentle nature trails along rivers and lakes to extreme challenges on some of the steepest slopes in the Rockies.