NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr., Organizers

November 1-2, 2007

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1:

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM B. DOUGLAS BERNHEIM, Stanford University and NBER

Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for

Behavioral Welfare Economics

(Joint with Antonio Rangel)

Discussant: DANIEL SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER

2:15 PM Break

2:45 PM EDUARDO M. ENGEL, Yale University and NBER

RONALD FISCHER, CEA

The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

(Joint with Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic)

Discussant: RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

4:00 PM Break

4:15 PM ALAN J. AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

(Joint with Ronald Lee)

Discussant: PETER A. DIAMOND, MIT and NBER

5:45 PM Adjourn

6:15 PM Reception/Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

Dinner Speaker: EDWARD P. LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisers (On Leave)

9:00 PM Shuttle Van Departs Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM WILLIAM G. GALE, Brookings Institution

Effects of Individual Development Accounts on Asset Purchase and Saving Behavior:

Evidence from a Controlled Experiment

(Joint with Emil Apostolov, Gary V. Engelhardt, Michael Eriksen,

Gregory Mills, Rhiannon Patterson)

Discussant: KATHERINE BAICKER, Harvard University and NBER

10:00 AM LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER

Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences

Discussant: IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM HANMING FANG, Duke University and NBER

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance Systems:

Theory and Evidence

(Joint with Alessandro Gavazza)

Discussant: AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

12:45 PM Lunch

1:30 PM ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER

The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship

Discussant: JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

2:45 PM Adjourn

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