Call for Papers: The 8th Annual Conference of Government and Economics
Call for Papers
The 8th Annual Conference of Government and Economics
May 23, 2026
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
The Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) are happy to announce that the 8th Annual Conference of Government and Economics will be held on May 23, 2026 in Beijing, China. The main goals of the annual conference are to deepen our understanding of the relationship between government and economics, and to promote studies on the incentives of government behavior and impacts of government policy on the economy. The 1st conference was held on April 27, 2019, with seven conferences having been held successfully to date.
SAGE (http://www.sage-econ.org) aims to promote academic research on the subject of government and economics, including topics such as the incentives, behavior, and role of the government in an economy. The Society is a disinterested, academic organization avoiding political, social, commercial, or nationalistic biases. The inaugural co-presidents of SAGE are Professor Eric S. Maskin of Harvard University, a 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, together with Professor David Daokui Li of Tsinghua University. The Society has an open international membership, including members from regions/countries such as Africa, Europe, the United States, and China, as well as from many developing countries around the world.
The mission of ACCEPT (http://www.accept.tsinghua.edu.cn) is to advance the knowledge of the discipline of economics with proper consideration for Chinese economic thinking and practice. The focus of the Center's research is on the study of government and economics. Founded in April 2018, ACCEPT is led by its Director, Professor David Daokui Li.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit completed papers. Papers will be selected by the Program Committee, which is to comprise a panel of international scholars. Please submit your papers in electronic format (PDF files only) to accept@tsinghua.edu.cn. The paper submission deadline is May 5, 2026. Submitting authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by May 10, 2026 via email. We will recommend 3-4 papers altogether to be published in either the Journal of Government and Economics (https://www.editorialmanager.com/goveco/Default.aspx) and/or Economic Research on Government and Economics (https://zfsc.cbpt.cnki.net/portal/journal/portal/client/index). More detailed information on the publication process will be released during the annual conference.
TOPICS
Papers related to government and economics in English or Chinese are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Central and local governments and their internal incentives
- Fiscal policies and public goods
- Governance capability and macroeconomic regulation
- Government and enterprise development
- Government and factor markets, land supply and transfer
- Government and market cultivation
- Government and globalization
- Government, internet platforms and artificial intelligence
- Roles of the government and the market in pursuit of carbon neutrality and green energy
TENTATIVE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Yuval Noah Harari, Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate, Adams University Professor at Harvard University
Thomas Piketty, Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics
SAGE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE (alphabetical order by last name)
Philippe Aghion, College de France
Chong-en Bai, Tsinghua University
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Erik Berglöf, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Alison Booth, Australian National University
Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
Roger Gordon, University of California-San Diego
Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po
David D. Li, Tsinghua University
Francis T. Lui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Eric S. Maskin, Harvard University
Pablo Andrés Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Edmund Phelps, Columbia University
Danny Quah, National University of Singapore
Assaf Razin, Tel Aviv University
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University
José A. Scheinkman, Columbia University
A. Michael Spence, Stanford University
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Mariano Tommasi, Universidad de San Andrés
Yijiang Wang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Yang Yao, Peking University
Jun Zhang, Fudan University
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (alphabetical order by last name)
Meixin Guo, Research Fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
Zhangkai Huang, Associate Professor of SEM at Tsinghua University
Bing Li, Research Fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
David Daokui Li, Director and Professor of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
Jing Li, Secretary of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
Aobo Like, Executive Deputy Director of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
Peilin Liu, Research Fellow at Tsinghua University and Chief Economist at Zhejiang University
Lin Lu, Research Fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
Shuyu Wu, Research Fellow of ACCEPT at Tsinghua University
