CURRENT VISITORS

 Tim Boonen

PH.D. Candidate

Affiliation: Tilburg University and Netspar

Dates: 4 March - 31 May 2013

Host: John Piggott and Michael Sherris, UNSW node

Tim Boonen is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, with expertise in Pensions and Mathematical Economics. During his stay he will be presenting a paper, Bargaining for Over-The-Counter Risk Redistributions: The Case of Longevity Risk at the CPS Research Seminar, Thursday 7 March.

 

 

UPCOMING VISITORS

 Mingxu Yang

PH.D. Candidate

Affiliation: College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University

Dates: 13 May - 12 July, 2013

Host: Bei Lu, UNSW node

Mingxu Yang is a PhD candidate of Mathematical Demography from Zhejiang University in China.  Mingxu also holds a Bachelor degree in Automation Engineering and a Masters in Pattern Recognition and Intelligence System.

 

Jia Ning

PH.D. Candidate

Affiliation: College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University

Dates: 13 May - 12 July, 2013

Host: Bei Lu, UNSW node

Jia Ning is a PhD candidate from Zhejiang University in China.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English language and Culture and a Master of Arts in Education (English Language Teaching).

 

Professor Annamaria Olivieri

Affiliation: University of Parma

Dates of visit: 1 - 13 July, 2013

Host: Professor Michael Sherris

Research areas:

 

Dr Erik Hernaes

Affiliation: Frisch Centre for Economic Research, University of Oslo

Dates: 19 June - 5 July, 2013

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Erik Hernaes is a Senior Research Fellow with the Frisch Centre for Economic Research at the University of Oslo.

His research interests include educational forecasting, education and earnings, unemployment, and the economics of retirement.

 

Paul Johnson

Affiliation: The Institute for Fiscal Studies, Director

Dates: 1 July - 9 July, 2013

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Formerly, Paul was a Research Fellow at IFS and an Associate of Frontier Economics. From 2004 to 2007 he was director of the public services and growth directorate and Chief micro-economist at HM Treasury, as well as deputy head of the Government Economic Service. He previously worked in senior posts at the Department for Education and Skills and the Financial Services Authority. Until 1998 he was a full-time researcher at IFS, eventually taking on the roles of deputy director and head of the personal sector research programme.

 

Professor Theo Nijman

Affiliation: Tilburg University and Netspar

Dates: 30 June - 11 July, 2013

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Theo Nijman is professor of Econometrics and Finance at Tilburg University. He published extensively in the leading international journals on a wide variety of topics within empirical finance and econometrics. His recent work covers topics such as pensionfund management, the optimal individual pension contract, measurement and management of inflation, interest and longevity risk, and performance attribution and measurement.

 

Professor Merril Silverstein

Affiliation: Syracuse University

Dates: 30 June - 5 July, 2013

Host:  John Piggott, UNSW node

Merril Silverstein is the inaugural holder of the Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professorship in Aging, a joint appointment in the Falk College and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. A prolific scholar and researcher, Silverstein joins Syracuse University from the University of Southern California, where he served as professor of gerontology and sociology.

 

Professor James Nazroo

Affiliation: University of Manchester and CEPAR Partner Investigator

Dates: 1 July - 10 July, 2013

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Dr Nazroo's research interests include inequality, social justice and underlying processes of stratification centering on gender, ethnicity, ageing, and the intersections between these; social and health inequalities in aging populations, with a particular interest in the 'transmission' of inequalities across the lifecourse, patterns of 'retirement', and formal and informal social and civic participation. 

 

Professor Hanming Fang

Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania and CEPAR Partner Investigator

Dates: 1 July - 12 July, 2013

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Dr Fang's research interests include Applied microeconomic theory, empirical microeconomics, public economics, insurance markets, economics of discrimination and affirmative action. 

 

Professor Eileen Crimmins 

Affiliation: University of Southern California

Dates: 29 June - 4 July, 2013

Host: John, Piggott, UNSW node

Professor of Gerontology in the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. She is currently the director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, one of the Demography of Aging Centers supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. She is also the Director of the Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology Program and the NIA-sponsored Network on Biological Risk. Crimmins is a co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study in the U.S.

PREVIOUS VISITORS

Dr Renuka Sane

Affiliation: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Dates:  18 February - 2 March 2013

Host: Professor John Piggott

Research areas: 

Dr. Sane's expertise in the field of retirement and demographics has resulted in several publications in the top academic journals; one in a top macroeconomics journal with Dr. Stanley Cho (Economics) and another at a highly-regarded regional journal with Professor John Piggott. Both papers bring in Dr. Sane's expertise in analysing the pension system in the Australian context as well as demographic shift in the Asian region. 

Dr. Sane also has several ongoing projects with Professor John Piggott in terms of residential choice in the presence of family home exemption in resource-tested transfer programs as well as with Dr. Stanley Cho (Economics) in terms of analyzing the impact of the age-pension assets test on savings decisions of those close to retirement using HILDA data.

 

Dr Andrew Wister

Affiliation: Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University

Dates: 16 January - 26 January, 2013

Host: Univeristy of Sydney

Andrew Wister is Chair of the Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. His research addresses healthy lifestyles, self-care, health promotion, and population health and aging, including comparative analyses of baby boomers and other generations. This research has been extended to multiple chronic illnesses with a focus on living well with comorbidity. He is a collection site lead of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), which will be the largest interdisciplinary panel population health and aging study in Canada (50,000 participants).  

 

Dr Barbara Mitchell

Affiliation: Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University

Dates: 16 January - 26 January, 2013

Host: Univeristy of Sydney

Barbara Mitchell is Professor of Sociology and Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. Her research is complementary, focusing on family transitions over the life course, generational issues, social and economic inequality and the effects of these transitions (e.g., empty nest, retirement, unpaid work etc.) on health and well-being. She has expertise in life course theory, and has synthesized it with other frameworks (such as social determinants of health) in her innovative multi method research. Dr. Mitchell is a pioneer in family and living arrangement transitions over the life course, and will assist the team by including family and social support related dimensions of health and well-being.   

 

 Dr Dimitris Christelis

Affiliation: Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, University of Naples Federico II

Dates: 5 September - 20 October, 2012

Host: Isabella Dobrescu, UNSW node

Dr Christelis is Research Officer of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a Research Fellow at the Centre of Studies in Economics and Finance (University of Naples Federico II), and a Research Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt). He has conducted research on household saving and portfolio choice, employment decisions of older households, nonlinear panel data models, and imputation of missing data. 

 

Dr Fanny Annemarie Kluge

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

Dates: 26 September - 16 October, 2012

Host: Katja Hanewald, UNSW node

Dr Fanny Kluge is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) within the Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography, Germany. During her visit, Dr Kluge will be working with Dr Hanewald on a joint research project.

Dr Kluge's current projects include:

• Individual Stochasticity in Lifetime Accumulation of Demographic Rewards
• Transfers, Economic Growth, and Demographic Change

 

Professor Noriyuki Takayama

Affiliation: Research Institute for Policies on Pension and Aging, Tokyo

Dates: 6 September - 18 September, 2012

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Dr Noriyuki Takayama is a distinguished Scholar at the Research Institute for Policies on Pension and Aging (RIPPA) and JRI Pension Research Chair Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He is known as a distinguished key player on Japanese pensions and has published numerous books and articles in international publications including Econometrica and American Economic Review. His publications include Taste of Pie: Searching for Better Pension Provisions in Developed Countries, Pensions in Asia: Incentives, Compliance and Their Role in Retirement, Closing the Coverage Gap, Fertility and Public Policy, Priority Challenges in Pension Administration, Securing Lifelong Retirement Income, and Reforming Pensions for Civil and Military Servants.  

 

Dr Hongqin Chang

 Affiliation: Business Administration College, Taiyuan University of Technology      

 Dates:  31 July - 6 August 2012

 Host: Dr Elisabetta Magnani

Research areas:  Dr. Chang is interested in Economic Development and Applied Microeconomics, Gender and Women Issues, Time Use Research and Public Policy. She has expertise in dealing with one of the few Chinese Panel Databases, The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). She has worked on elderly and children's wellbeing among the "left behind" resulting from rural-urban migration in China.

 

Professor Olivia S. Mitchell

Affiliation: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Dates of visit: 12 - 20 July, 2012

Host: Professor John Piggott

Research interests: International private and social insurance; employee benefits and compensation; economics of public and private pensions; risk and crisis management; health/retirement analysis and policy; labor economics and public finance.

 

Professor Annamaria Olivieri

Affiliation: University of Parma

Dates of visit: 3 - 21 July, 2012

Host: Professor Michael Sherris

Research areas:

 

Professor Ermanno Pitacco

Affiliation: University of Trieste

Dates of visit: 3 - 21 July, 2012

Host: Professor Michael Sherris  

Ermanno Pitacco is a Professor of Actuarial Mathematics in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Trieste.

Research areas

• Multistate models for the insurances of the person (life insurance, disability insurance and LTC insurance
• Valuation of the life insurance business
• Models for the longevity risk
• Solvency for life portfolios and pension funds
• Actuarial perspectives of annuitisation and post-retirement choices in pension products
• Pricing and reserving for life insurance products
• Pricing and reserving for health insurance products

 

Assistant Professor Minchung Hsu

Affiliation: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo

Dates of visit: 25 June - 1 July 2012

Host: Dr Elena Capatina

Research areas:  Minchung Hsu's current research is very closely related to many CEPAR projects. His lines of research are (1) Health Insurance, Saving, and Social Welfare Systems, (2) Demographic Change and Economic Growth, and (3) China Studies. He has conducted extensive research on health insurance reform, analysing the effects on asset accumulation, labour supply and welfare. His research also studies the challenges of fast population ageing on financing health care systems, for example in Japan and Taiwan. He has also studied the effects of demographic change in China, including deviations from the one-child policy on economic growth.

 

Dr Severine Gaille

Affiliation: University of Lausanne,Switzerland

Dates:  16 April - 15 June 2012

Host:  Michael Sherris

Severine Gaille is an Assistant Professor in Actuarial Science University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr Gaille will visit CEPAR to work jointly with Professor Michael Sherris and Dr Daniel Alai on longevity risk modeling. This research will extend recent work completed by Sherris and Gaille for a project investigating improving morality forecasting using cause of death data. This is an important research area for CEPAR.

 

Assistant Professor Jochen O. Mierau

Affiliation:  The University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dates of visit: 1 May -  8 June, 2012

Host: Mike Keane

Research interests: Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Political Economics.

 

Assistant Professor Viola Angelini

Affiliation:  The University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dates of visit: 1 May -  8 June, 2012

Host: Mike Keane 

 

YANG Zhenzhen

PH.D.Candidate 

Affiliation: College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University

Dates of visit:  31 March- 17 May , 2012

Host: Bei Lu, John Piggott 

YANG Zhenzhen is a second year doctoral student in social security and professor MI Hong isher supervisor. YANG Zhenzhen comes to CEPAR for a joint research project "The Evaluation and Improvement of the Pilot Project of the New Rural Old-age Insurance - based on the investigation of ten counties" which is funded by Ford Foundation.

 

John Rust

Affiliation: University of Georgetown

Dates: 12 march - 30 March, 2012

Host: Fedor Iskhakov, UNSW node

John Rust is Professor of Economics at Georgetown University.

His major research interests are numerical dynamic programming and retirement behaviour. John was previously a professor of economics at University of Maryland, Yale University, and University of Wisconsin. He received his PhD from MIT in 1983, specialising in applied econometrics and computational economics. Rust is a co-founder of EconJobMarket.org, and Techno Luddites, Inc, which provides web-based software to assist academics
in publishing, holding conferences, and evaluation of job candidates. Rust received the Ragnar Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society in 1992 for his 1987 Econometrica paper "Optimal Replacement of GMC Bus Engines: An Empirical Model of Harold Zurcher."

 

Bertel Schjerning

Affiliation: University of Cophehagen

Dates: 12 march - 30 March, 2012

Host: Fedor Iskhakov, UNSW node

Bertel Schjerning is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Cophehagen. His research interests include Dynamic Economics, Computational Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Labor Economics, and Entrepreneurship.

 

Dr Paul McNamee

Affiliation: Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Dates:  27 February- 12 April , 2012

Host: Kaarin Anstey, ANU node

Paul McNamee is Program Director at the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen.

Dr McNamee's research expertise includes the study of economic aspects of population ageing, the measurement and valuation of patient and carer preferences, and health policy assessment in low to middle income countries. His research is closely aligned with CEPAR's research program on economic and social policy issues of ageing and he will be working on a longitudinal dataset and project led by Professor Anstey.

 

Dr Erik Hernaes

Affiliation: Frisch Centre for Economic Research, University of Oslo

Dates: 4 January - 7 March, 2012

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Erik Hernaes is a Senior Research Fellow with the Frisch Centre for Economic Research at the University of Oslo.

His research interests include educational forecasting, education and earnings, unemployment, and the economics of retirement.

 

Simen Markussen

Affiliation: Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Norway

Dates: 4 January - 7 March, 2012

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

Simen Markussen is a Research Fellow at the Frisch Centre for Economic Research in Norway. His main area of research is sick-leave.

 

Professor Emily Grundy

Affiliation: Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dates: 23 January - 19 February, 2012

Host: Peter McDonald, ANU node

Emily Grundy is a Professor at the Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  Previously she has held positions at the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at King's College, London, the Department of Health Care of the Elderly at Nottingham University and the Social Statistics Unit in the Mathematics Department at City University.

Professor Grundy's research is concerned with the demography of ageing particularly the determinants, correlates and consequences of the family, household and social support networks of older people and the interaction of these with health.

 

Dr Dimitris Christelis

Affiliation: Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, University of Naples Federico II

Dates: 31 January - 22 February, 2012

Host: Isabella Dobrescu, UNSW node

Dr Christelis is Research Officer of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a Research Fellow at the Centre of Studies in Economics and Finance (University of Naples Federico II), and a Research Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt). He has conducted research on household saving and portfolio choice, employment decisions of older households, nonlinear panel data models, and imputation of missing data.

 

Professor Henry Ohlsson

Affiliation: Department of Economics, Uppsala University

Dates: 03 October, 2011 to 31 January, 2012

Host:  John Piggott, UNSW node

CEPAR Seminar Speaker: 10 November 2011

Title: Who reaches the top? Wealth mobility over the life cycle.

Henry Ohlsson is Professor of Economics at Uppsala University and a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences since 2009. He currently serves on the board of Uppsala University, the board of the Swedish Public Employment Service and as one of four independent economists in the Economic Council for Swedish Industry.

His research interests lie in the fields of public economics and labour economics.

 

Professor Robert Holzmann

Affiliation: University of Vienna and the World Bank

Dates:  17-25 November, 2011

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

 

Professor Susumu Imai

Affiliation: Economics Department, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario

Dates:   August 29 -September 23, 2011

Host: Michael Keane, UNSW node

 

Dr Michael Orszag

Affiliation: Head of Global Research Services, Towers Watson

Dates: 29 August - 2 September 2011; 2 - 8 May, 2011

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

 

Professor Robert Miller

Affiliation: Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Dates: August 15-19, 2011

Host: Michael Keane, UNSW node

 

Professor Monika Butler

Affiliation: School of Economics and Political Science, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

Dates: 3 - 17 July, 2011

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

 

Dr David McCarthy

Affiliation: Business School, Imperial College London

Dates: 25 - 29 July, 2011

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

 

Professor Olivia S. Mitchell

Affiliation: Pension Research Council, Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Dates: 10 - 15 July, 2011

Host: John Piggott, UNSW node

 

Dr Hua Chen

Affiliation: Fox School of Business, Temple University

Date: July 2011

Host: Michael Sherris, UNSW node

 

Professor Annamaria Olivieri

Affiliation: School of Management, University of Parma

Date: July 2011

Host: Michael Sherris, UNSW node

 

Dr Thomas Post

Affiliation: School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Date: July 2011

Host: Michael Sherris, UNSW node

 

Dr Andy Towers

Affiliation: School of Psychology, New Zealand Longitudinal Study of Ageing at Massey University 

Date:  June 2011

Host: Hal Kendig, University of Sydney node

 

Professor David Bunce

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Brunel University

Date: April 2011

Host: Kaarin Anstey, ANU node

 

Dr Weijia Zhong

Affiliation: Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China

Date: March 2011

Host: Kaarin Anstey, ANU node