中央财经大学2025年专题学术讲座

教育部人文社科重点研究基地中央财经大学中国精算研究院学术活动

精算论坛第261期讲座

(2025年5月20日)

讲座主题：Homelessness

摘要：We present a dynamic general equilibrium model of homelessness calibrated to the U.S.data and evaluate the effectiveness of several policies in the fight against homelessness. Themodel is designed to capture the most at-risk groups, producing a diverse homeless population that includes a significant portion experiencing short-term homelessness due to labourmarket shocks and a smaller portion facing chronic homelessness mostly due to health shocks.Our policy experiments reveal that the existing housing voucher program effectively reduceshomelessness especially when the general equilibrium effects are accounted for. We show thatincreasing the reach of the program for eligible individuals can lead to further declines in theaggregate homeless rate relative to alternative forms of subsidies. However, policies targetedto help decrease homelessness are not as popular as general poverty reduction tools such ascash subsidies, which generate a larger welfare gain in our experiments.

报告人：Zhao Kai (赵开)

赵开博士，现任美国康涅狄格大学经济系终身教授、博士生导师，China & World Economy副主编。曾担任美联储访问经济学家，以及北京大学、中国人民大学、美国南加利福尼亚大学等多所高校访问教授。主要研究领域包括宏观经济学、财政政策及中国宏观经济。目前已在《经济研究评论》（Review Of Economic Studies）、《货币经济学》（Journal of Monetary Economics）、《国际经济评论》（International Economic Review）、《动态经济学评论》（Review of Economic Dynamics）和《欧洲经济评论》（European Economic Review）等国际学术期刊发表论文。

讲座时间：2025年5月20日（周二）早上10:00-11:30

报告地点：沙河学院楼13号楼301

邀 请 人：廖朴