SI 2022 Macro Public Finance
Organized by Dirk Krueger, Florian Scheuer, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Aleh Tsyvinski
July 21, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

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 and NBER
Guangbin Hong, Michigan State University

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