Tuesday, July 20
FORMAT: Presenters will have 35 minutes to present and answer questions. The moderator will invite presenters' co-authors to address audience questions in the Zoom chat while the presenter is presenting. The moderator may also voice questions from the Zoom chat directly to the presenter during the presentation. Presenters are invited to leave up to five minutes at the end for audience questions that the moderator selects from the Zoom chat.
Effects of Social Insurance Programs
11:00 am

Spending and Job Search Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER
Fiona E. Greig, Vanguard
Max Liebeskind, Nyca Partners
Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel M. Sullivan, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER
11:35 am

The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications

Marika Cabral, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Marcus Dillender, Vanderbilt University and NBER
12:10 pm
Break
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
1:00 pm

Organizational Capacity and Firm Profitability: Evidence from Multinationals

Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
1:35 pm

Tax Evasion and the Minimum Wage

Anikó Bíró, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
Daniel Prinz, The World Bank
László Sándor, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
2:10 pm
Break
“Local” Public Economics
2:30 pm

Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation

Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
3:05 pm

The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence

Daniel Reck, University of Maryland and NBER
Arthur Seibold, University of Mannheim
3:40 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 21
FORMAT: Presenters will have 35 minutes to present and answer questions. The moderator will invite presenters' co-authors to address audience questions in the Zoom chat while the presenter is presenting. The moderator may also voice questions from the Zoom chat directly to the presenter during the presentation. Presenters are invited to leave up to five minutes at the end for audience questions that the moderator selects from the Zoom chat.
The Economics of Income Shocks: Analyses Using Administrative Tax Data
11:00 am

How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income

Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Graber, Statistics Norway
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
David Novgorodsky, University of Chicago
11:35 am

The Effect of Income During Infancy: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefi ts

Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Jonathan Eggleston, U.S. Census Bureau
Alexander A. Smith, United States Military Academy at West Point
12:10 pm
Break
Policy Towards Wealth and Saving
1:00 pm

Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

Christian A. Moser, Columbia University and NBER
Pedro Olea, Princeton University
1:35 pm

Paraisos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility (slides)

David Agrawal, University of California, Irvine
Dirk Foremny, IEB Barcelona
Clara Martínez-Toledano, Paris School of Economics
2:10 pm
Break
Impacts of Firm Subsidy Policies
2:30 pm

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

Alexander W. Bartik, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER
3:05 pm

Direct, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies

Tobias Etzel, Deutsche Bundesbank
Sebastian Siegloch, University of Mannheim
Nils Wehrhöfer, Bundesbank Research Centre
3:40 pm
Adjourn