Thursday, July 21

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries

Session 1: Tax Incidence and Tax Evasion

9:00 am

Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation: A Unifying Model

Ashley C. Craig, The Australian National University
Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER

9:45 am

Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation with General Equilibrium Effects and Transition (slides)

Yena Park, Seoul National University

10:30 am

Break

Session 2: Optimal Taxation

11:00 am

Multidimensional Screening in Public Finance: The Optimal Taxation of Couples (slides)

Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
Ilia Krasikov, Arizona State University

11:45 am

A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage (slides)

Christian Hellwig, Toulouse School of Economics
Nicolas D. Werquin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

12:30 pm

Lunch

Session 3: Wealth and Debt

1:30 pm

Costs of Financing US Federal Debt: 1791-1933

George J. Hall, Brandeis University
Jonathan Payne, Princeton University
Thomas J. Sargent, New York University and NBER
Balint Szoke, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

2:15 pm

Wealth, Returns, and Taxation: A Tale of Two Dependencies

Alexandre Gaillard, Brown University
Philipp Wangner, Columbia University

3:00 pm

Break

Session 4: Corporate and Business Taxation

3:30 pm

A Macroeconomic Perspective on Taxing Multinational Enterprises (slides)

Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Joseph B. Steinberg, University of Toronto
Guangbin Hong, University of Chicago

4:15 pm

A Theory of Business Transfers (slides)

Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Paolo Martellini, New York University
Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn