SI 2024 Macro Public Finance
Organized by Dirk Krueger, Florian Scheuer, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Aleh Tsyvinski
July 18, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 18

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:45 am

Session 1: Taxation and Fiscal Policy

9:00 am

Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER
Michael D. Cai, Northwestern University
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER

9:45 am

Aversion to Complexity, with Applications to Simple Contracts, Simple Tax Systems and the Cost of Inflation

Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

Session 2: Climate Change

11:00 am

Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies

Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim
Lennard Schlattmann, University of Bonn

11:45 am

Optimal Energy Policy and the Inequality of Climate Change (slides)

Thomas Bourany, University of Chicago

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Session 3: Inequality and Redistribution

1:30 pm

Redistribution and Investment

Wendy A. Morrison, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

2:15 pm

The Preference for Wealth and Inequality: Towards a Piketty Theory of Wealth Inequality (slides)

Jean-Baptiste Michau, Ecole Polytechnique
Yoshiyasu Ono, Osaka University
Matthias Schlegl, ISER, Osaka University

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Session 4: Health

3:30 pm

Mortality Regressivity and Pension Design

Youngsoo Jang, University of Queensland
Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia
Ponpoje Porapakkarm, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo)

4:15 pm

Health Heterogeneity, Portfolio Choice and Wealth Inequality (slides)

Juergen Jung, Towson University
Chung Tran, The Australian National University

5:00 pm

Adjourn