December 20-21, 2025

Venue: Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen, China

The Second PHBS-IER Conference on "Demographic Change and Migration: Facts, Models and Policy Implications"

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Peking University HSBC Business School, in collaboration with the International Economic Review (IER), is pleased to announce the second PHBS-IER conference on “Demographic Change and Migration: Facts, Models and Policy Implications”. The conference offers the opportunity for the selected papers to be considered for publication in a special issue of the IER. Dirk Krueger is the editor in charge representing the IER. It will take place at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen, China, on December 20-21, 2025.

This conference aims to bring together a set of papers that analyze the drivers and consequences of demographic change, migration flows within and across countries and their consequences for public finances, labor markets and technological progress and innovation. Papers with a focus on Asian economies are especially encouraged for submission, but work on demographic change and migration more broadly is also very welcomed. Specific topics that are of interest to the conference include (but are not limited to):

·         Driving factors of demographic change: empirics and modeling of fertility and mortality.

·         Internal and international migration flows induced by demographic change.

·         The impact of population aging on public finances and the future of social insurance systems (social security, health care, long-term care etc.).

·         Demographic change, migration flows and national and local labor markets.

·         Migration and the spatial distribution of economic activity.

·         The interaction between demographic change, technological progress, and economic growth.

·         The impact of demographic change on housing and financial asset prices and returns

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit electronic versions of their papers in PDF format no later than midnight (ET) on Sunday, June 30, 2025, via the submission website: https://paper.phbs.pku.edu.cn/v1/. Authors will be notified by July 31, 2025 if their paper has been selected for the conference.

Special Issue

Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be eligible for consideration for inclusion in a special issue of the International Economic Review (the fifth issue of 2026), subject to editorial review and referee reports. Authors must indicate their interest in having their paper considered for the special issue during the submission process. Papers submitted for the special issue should not be under review at IER as a regular submission or any other journal until the special issue review process concludes. We expect notifications on whether papers will proceed for inclusion in the IER special issue to be sent out by the end of July, 2025.

Scientific Committee for the Conference/ Special Issue:

Kaiji Chen, Emory University

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania

Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania

Kai Li, Peking University HSBC Business School

Pengfei Wang, Peking University HSBC Business School

Contact Us

For any technical issues, please contact phbsier.conference@phbs.pku.edu.cn.

If you have any queries, please contact Ms. Silvia Sun at sunkun@phbs.pku.edu.cn, +86 0755 2603 3453 or Ms. Zoe Huang at huangxy@phbs.pku.edu.cn, +86 0755 2603 8874.