SI 2021 Macro Public Finance
Organized by Dirk Krueger, Aleh Tsyvinski, Florian Scheuer, and Stefanie Stantcheva
July 22, 2021
on Zoom.us
Thursday, July 22
10:00 am
Session 1

Optimal Taxation and Market Power (slides)

Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Chunyang Fu, UCAS
Wenjian Li, Zhejiang University
Xi Weng, Peking University

Public Debt Bubbles in Heterogeneous Agent Models with Tail Risk (slides)

Narayana R. Kocherlakota, University of Rochester and NBER
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Session 2

Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation: A Theoretical Analysis (slides)

Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto
Burhanettin Kuruscu, University of Toronto
Sergio Ocampo-Diaz, Western University, Canada

Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with Preference Heterogeneity (slides)

Antoine Ferey, Sciences Po
Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:15 pm
Break
1:45 pm
Session 3

Larger Transfers Financed with More Progressive Taxes? On the Optimal Design of Taxes and Transfers (slides)

Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics
Philipp Gruebener, Washington University in St. Louis
Gaston Navarro, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Oliko Vardishvili, University of California, Irvine

Federal, State and Local Tax Progressivity (slides)

Johannes Fleck, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota and NBER
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER
3:15 pm
Adjourn