The 20th International Economic Association (IEA) World Congress was convened in Medellín, Colombia from December 11-15, 2023, where a delegation of researchers from the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and Tsinghua University's Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) attended the annual event and held a policy session entitled "China and the US: The Perspective of Government and Economics," in addition to presenting research in an academic session on "Government and Economics."
On the fourth day of the conference, Thursday, December 14, SAGE and Tsinghua ACCEPT successfully delivered a policy session with the theme of "China and the US: The Perspective of Government and Economics," which reviewed and analyzed some of the major opportunities and challenges facing the world economy from the perspective of government and economics. Participants in the roundtable discussion included Dani Rodrik, President of the IEA and Professor of Harvard University, David Qingzhong Pan, Professor and Executive Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, and Huang Zhangkai, Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management and Tsinghua ACCEPT Researcher.
Huang Zhangkai (center), Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management and Tsinghua ACCEPT Researcher, chairs and moderates a policy session on "China and the US: The Perspective of Government and Economics" at the 20th IEA World Congress on December 14, 2023, with speakers including Dani Rodrik (left), President of the IEA and Professor of Harvard University, and David Qingzhong Pan (right), Professor and Executive Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University.
During the academic session, Professor Huang Zhangkai presented research on "The Crowdout Effect of State-Owned Enterprise Investment," Tsinghua ACCEPT Executive Deputy Director and Researcher Li Ke'aobo shared research on the topic of "The Government and Population Aging," and University of San Andrés Professor Mariano Tommasi shared research on "The Political Economy of Redistribution and Efficiency in Latin America." Professor David Qingzhong Pan chaired and moderated each section of the academic sharing session.
The IEA was founded in 1950 as a Non-Governmental Organization under the auspices of the Social Sciences Department of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Since its inception, the NGO has maintained close information and consultative relations with UNESCO. The IEA's mission is to promote communication and mutual understanding among economists from around the world through the organization of scientific meetings and academic conferences, including through common research programs as well as publications that are international in scope and concerned with issues of immediate importance. The IEA World Congress focuses on the frontier topics across the world in terms of economic theory and policy, and has been called the "Olympic Games" for the discipline of economic research. More than 500 economists from all over the world attended the 2023 Congress to present and discuss their research results.
David Qingzhong Pan (center-right), Professor and Executive Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, Mariano Tommasi (center-left), Professor of the University of San Andrés, Huang Zhangkai (left), Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management and Researcher at Tsinghua ACCEPT, and Ke'aobo Li (right), Executive Deputy Director and Researcher at Tsinghua ACCEPT, pose for a photo during an academic session on "Government and Economics" held at the 20th IEA World Congress on December 14, 2023.
Professor Mariano Tommasi of the University of San Andrés shares research on "The Political Economy of Redistribution and Efficiency in Latin America" during an academic session on "Government and Economics" held at the 20th IEA World Congress on December 14, 2023.
Tsinghua ACCEPT Executive Deputy Director and Researcher Li Ke'aobo shares research on "The Government and Population Aging" during an academic session on "Government and Economics" held at the 20th IEA World Congress on December 14, 2023.