SI 2015 Macro Public Finance
Organized by Dirk Krueger and Aleh Tsyvinski
July 16, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 16

9:00 am

The Optimal Use of Public-Good Spending for Macroeconomic Stabilization

Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:45 am

Fiscal Multipliers in the 21st Century

Pedro Brinca, Nova School of Business and Economics
Hans A. Holter, University of Delaware
Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER
Laurence Malafry

10:45 am

State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation

Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER

11:15 am

The evolution of wealth inequality over half a century: the role of skills, taxes and institutions

Baris Kaymak, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Markus Poschke, McGill University

1:00 pm

Optimal Taxation with Behavioral Agents

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER

1:45 pm

Wealth Inequality, Family Background, and Estate Taxation

Fang Yang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2:45 pm

The Sufficient Statistic Approach: Predicting the Top of the Laffer Curve

Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Alejandro Badel, Bureau of Labor Statistics

3:30 pm

Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks

Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto

4:30 pm

Social Health Insurance: A Quantitative Exploration

Juergen Jung, Towson University
Chung Tran, The Australian National University