The Federal Bank of Cleveland and Finn Kydland’s Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at UCSB announce an academic conference highlighting demographic work at the frontier of economic sciences. The conferences seeks to showcase work studying how and why developing and advanced economies are experiencing population aging and declining fertility rates. What are the causes and consequences of aging for the viability of social insurance systems and health care markets? What are the causes and consequences of declining fertility rates for market productivity and fiscal solvency? These are amongst the many questions the conference considers.
The conference organizers are Karen Kopecky (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Nick Pretnar (LAEF at UCSB), Ben Griffy (University at Albany), and John Jones (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond).