SI 2018 Macro Public Finance
Organized by Dirk Krueger, Aleh Tsyvinski, Florian Scheuer, and Stefanie Stantcheva
July 19, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, July 18

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 19

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

Session 1: Taxation and Trade

9:00 am

Robots, Trade, and Luddism (slides)

Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach (slides)

Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia
Ali Shourideh, Carnegie Mellon University

Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting

Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

10:45 am

Break

Session 2: Theory of Optimal Policy

11:00 am

Market Power and Income Taxation

Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER

Implications of Uncertainty for Optimal Policy

Maxim Troshkin, University of Pennsylvania

12:30 pm

Lunch

Session 3: Taxation of Capital and Entrepreneurial Income

1:30 pm

Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk

Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Alexander Ludwig, Goethe University Frankfurt

Taxes, Private Equity, and Evolution of Income Inequality in the US

Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame

3:00 pm

Break

Session 4: Optimal Taxes over the Life Cycle

3:30 pm

Optimal Progressivity with Age-Dependent Taxation

Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota and NBER
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER

Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation

Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University

5:00 pm

Adjourn