This workshop is organized by Netspar, the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement, an independent research network on Pensions, Aging and Retirement. The main economics faculties and departments in the Netherlands participate in Netspar, as well as a number of Dutch insurance companies, pension funds, and public sector organizations. For more detailed information about Netspar's research program, please look here
Program
The workshop starts with a training day, where two keynote speakers will give an up-to-date review of current pension research. Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania) and Deborah Lucas (Northwestern University) are confirmed as keynote speakers.
The second and third day of the workshop (Thursday and Friday, january 29 and 30, 2009) are an academic conference with contributed papers. We invite contributed papers from all fields of pension economics. Topics of interest are, among others,
Funding
Netspar has made funding available that covers accommodation for all speakers and discussants and probably part of their travel costs. Participants are encouraged to stay for the full three days of the workshop
Researchers interested in participating, either to present or to discuss a paper, are requested to submit an abstract or a complete paper to info@netspar.nl before November 1, 2008
The organizers
Frank de Jong
Ben Heijdra