NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

                                         PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

                                                                             

                                             Jeff Brown and Scott Weisbenner, Organizers

 

                                                                 APRIL 3-4, 2008

                       

                                                                         NBER

2ND Floor Conference Room

                                                         1050 Massachusetts Avenue                   

                                                         Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

                                                                     PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 3:

 

12:30 pm          Lunch

 

1:30 pm            AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

                        The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information:

                        Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

                        (Joint with Liran Einav and Paul Schrimpf)

 

                        Discussant:        DAN SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER

 

2:40 pm            RAN ABRAMITZKY, Stanford University

                        The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz

           

                        Discussant:        EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                                               

3:50 pm            Break

 

4:20 pm            YURIY GORODNICHENKO, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        Myth and Reality of Flat tax Reform:

                        Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

                        (Joint with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Klara Sabirianova Peter)

 

                        Discussant:        JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

           

5:45 pm            Reception and Dinner

                        Harvard Faculty Club

                        20 Quincy Street

                        Cambridge, MA

                       

                        Dinner Speaker: EDWARD KLEINBARD, U.S. Congress, Joint Chief on Taxation

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 4:

 

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

 

 

 

8:30 am            MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

                        The Effects of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

                        (Joint with Fiona Scott Morton)

           

                        Discussant:        JON GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

9:40 am            PETER DIAMOND, MIT and NBER

                        The Base for Direct Taxation

                        (Joint with James Banks)

 

                        Discussant:        ALAN AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

10:50 am           Break

 

11:20 am           DANIEL BERGSTRESSER, Harvard University

                        (Joint with Jeffrey Pontiff)

                        Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance

 

                        Discussant:        WILLIAM GENTRY, Williams College

 

12:30 pm          Lunch

 

1:20 pm            BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

                        (Joint with James Sullivan)

                        Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

 

                        Discussant:        KATHLEEN MCGARRY, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

2:30 pm            Adjourn

 

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