SI 2016 Macro Public Finance
Organized by Dirk Krueger and Aleh Tsyvinski
July 21, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 21

Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Transfer Union

Till O. Gross, Carleton University

9:00 am

A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation

Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

9:00 am

Mirrlees meets Diamond-Mirrlees

Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

11:00 am

Optimal Automatic Stabilizers

Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

11:00 am

Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance

Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

1:30 pm

Tax Progressivity, Performance Pay and Search Frictions

Arpad Abraham, University of Bristol
Susanne Forstner, Stockholm University

1:30 pm

Rethinking the Welfare State

Nezih Guner, CEMFI
Remzi Kaygusuz, Sabanci University
Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University

3:30 pm

Macroeconomic effects of Medicare

Juan Carlos Conesa, Stony Brook University

3:30 pm

Universal versus Targeted Preschools: A Mechanism-Design Approach

Brant Abbott, Queen's University
Dominik Sachs, University of St. Gallen