Thursday, July 20

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:55 am

Session 1: Dynamics of taxation

9:00 am

The Importance of Modeling Income Taxes over Time: U.S. Reforms and Outcomes

Margherita Borella, Universita di Torino
Mariacristina De Nardi, University of Minnesota and NBER
Michael Pak, Harvard University
Nicolo Russo, Goethe University Frankfurt
Fang Yang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

9:45 am

Dynamic Job Market Signaling and Optimal Taxation

André Sztutman, Carnegie Mellon University

10:30 am

Break

10:55 am

Session 2: International policies

11:00 am

Profit Shifting Frictions and the Geography of Multinational Activity (slides)

Alessandro Ferrari, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Sébastien Laffitte, CYU - Cergy Paris University
Mathieu Parenti, Paris School of Economics
Farid Toubal, University of Paris-Dauphine

11:45 am

The Unequal Economic Consequences of Carbon Pricing

Diego R. Kaenzig, Northwestern University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:22 pm

Session 3: Debt

1:30 pm

Running Primary Deficits Forever in a Dynamically Efficient Economy: Feasibility and Optimality

Andrew B. Abel, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Stavros Panageas, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

2:15 pm

End-of-Life Liquidity

Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California
Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia
Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt University

3:00 pm

Break

3:20 pm

Session 4: Policy reform

3:30 pm

Optimal Gradualism (slides)

Nils Haakon Lehr, International Monetary Fund
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER

4:15 pm

Taxing the Rich

Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Patrick J. Kehoe, Stanford University and NBER
Pierlauro Lopez, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania

5:00 pm

Adjourn