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SI 2014 Macro Public Finance

Dirk Krueger and Aleh Tsyvinski, Organizers

July 17, 2014

Skyline room AB

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 16:
6:00 pm	Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 17:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Boston University Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER Generational Risk--Is It a Big Deal?: Simulating an 80-Period OLG Model with Aggregate Shocks
9:45 am	Daphne Chen, Florida State University Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto Burhanettin Kuruscu, University of Texas at Austin Use It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation:
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Hitoshi Tsujiyama, Goethe University Frankfurt Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey
11:30 am	Alejandro Badel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Mark Huggett, Georgetown University Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Stefanie Stantcheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies Over the Life Cycle
2:15 pm	Dominik Sachs, University of Cologne Sebastian Findeisen, University of Mannheim Designing Efficient Education and Tax Policies
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Laurence Ales, Carnegie Mellon University Musab Kurnaz, Carnegie Mellon University Christopher Sleet, Carnegie Mellon University Tasks, Talents and Taxes
4:00 pm	Juan Suarez, Stanford University Owen M. Zidar, University of California at Berkeley Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms
4:45 pm	Adjourn