The Philadelphia Council for Business Economics
A Chapter of NABE

is pleased to present

James Poterba
President, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT

Presentation: "Retirement Saving in a Low-Interest Rate World"

Location: Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia

Jim Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit research organization with nearly 1400 affiliated economists. He has served as President of the Eastern Economic Association and the National Tax Association, as vice president of the American Economic Association, and as a director of the American Finance Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society.

Dr. Poterba's research focuses on how taxation affects the economic decisions of households and firms, particularly those involving saving and portfolio behavior. His recent research has analyzed the determinants of retirement saving, the draw-down of assets after households reach retirement, and the role of tax-deferred retirement saving programs such as 401(k) plans in contributing to retirement security.

Dr. Poterba is a trustee of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), the TIAA-CREF mutual funds, and of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a former editor of the Journal of Public Economics, the leading international journal for research on taxation and government spending, a co-author of The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement (2001), and an editor or coeditor of Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses (1991), International Comparisons of Household Saving (1994), Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation (1996), Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Performance (1999), and Fiscal Reform in Colombia (2005). Dr. Poterba served as a member of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform in 2005.

Dr. Poterba holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a D. Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, a Batterymarch Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2014 he received the Daniel M. Holland Medal from the National Tax Association for the study and practice of public finance. He is a graduate of Pennsbury High School in Bucks County, PA.

Date: Friday, January 5, 2018

Time: 12:30 pm - Lunch begins
            1:00 pm - Presentation begins

Place: Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
           200 S. Broad Street, Suite 700
           Philadelphia, PA

Cost: PCBE Members - $20.00
         Lunch + 2018 Membership - $45.00
         GIC/CFAPhila/PSA/Bond Club Members - $25.00
         Nonmembers - $30.00
         Student - $15.00 (with Valid FT College ID)

Please Note: Reservations are required and must be made or canceled no later than 12:00 pm two days before the meeting. "No-shows" will be billed.

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Luke Tilley, President
David Allon, Vice President
Ralph Giraud, Program Chair
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