Thursday, July 20

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

Session 1: Optimal Taxation

9:00 am

Generalized Compensation Principle

Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Nicolas D. Werquin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance

Yena Park, Seoul National University
Yongsung Chang, Seoul National University

Quantifying the Welfare Gains from Histor y Dependent Income Taxation

Marek Kapicka, CERGE-EI

10:45 am

Break

Session 2: Social Security

11:00 am

Sustainable Intergenerational Insurance

Alessia Russo, University of Padua
Francesco Lancia, University of Vienna
Timothy Worrall, The University of Edinburgh

Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

Christian A. Moser, Columbia University and NBER
Pedro Olea, Princeton University

12:30 pm

Lunch

Session 3: (Optimal) Fiscal Policy and Aggregate Fluctuations

1:30 pm

Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization

Rohan Kekre, University of Chicago and NBER

Optimal Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Aggregate shocks

Xavier Ragot, Sciences Po
Francois Le Grand, Rennes School of Business

3:00 pm

Break

Session 4: Government Debt

3:30 pm

The Public and Private Provision of Safe Assets

Marina Azzimonti, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER

The Optimal Quantity of Capital and Debt

Marcus Hagedorn, University of Oslo
Hans A. Holter, University of Delaware
Yikai Wang

5:00 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel