Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by John N. Friedman, Adam Isen, and Juliana Londoño-Vélez
April 13-14, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 13

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Who Bears the Burden of Rising Health Care Spending in the US? Evidence from Hospital Mergers

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Zack Cooper, Yale University and NBER
Stuart V. Craig, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Lev R. Klarnet, Harvard University
Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Corbin L. Miller, Internal Revenue Service

9:40 am

On the Nature of Entrepreneurship

Tobey Kass, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER
Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Thomas J. May, California State University - Fullerton

10:20 am

Break

10:40 am

Earnings Business Cycles: The Covid Recession, Recovery, and Policy Response

Jeff Larrimore, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Jacob Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation
David Splinter, Joint Committee on Taxation

11:20 am

Tax Expenditures by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity

Julie Anne Cronin, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Portia Defilippes, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Robin Fisher, U.S. Department of the Treasury

12:00 pm

Lunch

12:50 pm

Re-examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach

Kevin Rinz, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

1:30 pm

The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets

Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau

2:10 pm

Break

Public Economics Program Meeting Begins

2:40 pm

Managers and Public Hospital Performance

Cristobal Otero, Columbia University
Pablo Munoz, Universidad de Chile

3:20 pm

The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector

Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER
Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Zachary S. Templeton, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

Break

4:20 pm

Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes

Matthias Rodemeier, Bocconi University
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
Gregory K. Sun, Washington University in St Louis
Sutanuka Roy, The Australian National University

5:00 pm

Adjourn

5:30 pm

Reception

6:00 pm

Group Dinner
Remarks and Conversation with Brian Deese, Former Director of the National Economic Council, The White House

Friday, April 14

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax

Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Mathilde Muñoz, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, CNRS, Univ. de Lyon
Bertrand Garbinti, CREST - IP Paris

9:40 am

Regulating Housing Quality: Evidence from France

Antoine B. Levy, University of California, Berkeley

10:20 am

Break

10:40 am

Diffuse Bunching with Frictions: Theory and Estimation

Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania
Allan A. Davids, University of Cape Town
Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London

11:20 am

Break

11:40 am

The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power: Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives

Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER
Nirupama L. Rao, University of Michigan

12:20 pm

Disaggregated Economic Accounts

Asger L. Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER
Niels Johannesen, University of Oxford
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER
Emil Toft Hansen, University of Copenhagen

1:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn