Call for Papers 

The 7th Annual Conference of Government and Economics 

and 

New Launch Announcement: Economic Research on Government and Economics 

June 7, 2025 

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 

The Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) are happy to announce that the 7th Annual Conference of Government and Economics will be held on June 7, 2025 in Beijing, China. We will also celebrate the new launch of the journal (in Chinese): Economic Research on Government and Economics. The main goals of the annual conference are to deepen our understanding of the relationship between government and economics, and to promote studies on the incentives of government behavior and impacts of government policy on the economy. The first conference was held on April 27, 2019, with six conferences having been held successfully to date.

SAGE (http://www.sage-econ.org) aims to promote academic research on the subject of government and economics, including topics such as the incentives, behavior, and role of the government in an economy. The Society is a disinterested, academic organization avoiding political, social, commercial, or nationalistic biases. The inaugural co-presidents of SAGE are Professor Eric S. Maskin of Harvard University, a 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, together with Professor David Daokui Li of Tsinghua University. The Society has an open international membership, including members from regions/countries such as Africa, Europe, the United States,and China, as well as from many developing countries around the world.

The mission of ACCEPT (http://www.accept.tsinghua.edu.cn) is to advance the knowledge of the discipline of economics with proper consideration for Chinese economic thinking and practice. The focus of the Center's research is on the study of government and economics. Founded in April 2018, ACCEPT is led by its Director, Professor David Daokui Li.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit completed papers. Papers will be selected by the Program Committee, which is to comprise a panel of international scholars. Please submit your papers in electronic format (PDF files only) to accept@tsinghua.edu.cn. The paper submission deadline is May 15, 2025. 

Submitting authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by May 20, 2025 via email. We will recommend 3-4 papers altogether for publication in the Journal of Government and Economics (https://www.editorialmanager.com/goveco/Default.aspx) and/or Economic Research on Government and Economics. More detailed information on the publication process will be released during the annual conference. 

TOPICS

Papers related to government and economics in English or Chinese are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• - Central and local governments and their internal incentives 

• - Government and the development of internet platforms and artificial intelligence 

• - Government and state-owned enterprises   

• - Government behavior and enterprise development   

• - Government behavior and fiscal revenue 

• - Government behavior and land supply and transfer   

• - Government behavior and market cultivation 

• - Government behavior and savings 

• - Government functions and public goods 

• - Government governance capability and macroeconomic regulation  

• - Government incentives and globalization 

• - Roles of the government and the market in pursuit of carbon neutrality and green energy

• TENTATIVE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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•     Phillippe Aghion, Professor at College de France, INSEAD and London School of Economics

•     J. Bradford Delong, Professor at UC Berkeley

•     Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Laureate, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor at MIT  

      Michael Kremmer, 2019 Nobel Laureate, University Professor at University of Chicago

      Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate, Adams University Professor at Harvard University

      Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University

      Vito Tanzi, Former Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF (1981-2000)

  
  

SAGE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE (alphabetical order by last name) 

Philippe Aghion, College de France 

Chong-en Bai, Tsinghua University 

Kaushik Basu, Cornell University 

Erik Berglöf, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 

Alison Booth, Australian National University 

Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes 

Roger Gordon, University of California-San Diego 

Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po 

David D. Li, Tsinghua University 

Francis T. Lui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 

Eric S. Maskin, Harvard University 

Pablo Andrés Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 

Edmund Phelps, Columbia University 

Danny Quah, National University of Singapore 

Assaf Razin, Tel Aviv University 

Dani Rodrik, Harvard University 

Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University 

José A. Scheinkman, Columbia University 

A. Michael Spence, Stanford University 

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University 

Mariano Tommasi, Universidad de San Andrés 

Yijiang Wang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business 

Yang Yao, Peking University 

Jun Zhang, Fudan University 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (alphabetical order by last name) 

Meixin Guo, Research Fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University

Zhangkai Huang, Associate Professor of SEM at Tsinghua University

Bing Li, Research fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University

David Daokui Li, Director and Professor of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University

Jing Li, Secretary of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University

Aobo Like, Executive Deputy Director of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University

Peilin Liu, Research fellow at Tsinghua University and Chief Economist at Zhejiang University

Lin Lu, Research fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University

Shuyu Wu, Research fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University