Thursday, July 17

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

Session 1: Taxation and Fiscal Policy

9:00 am

The Limits of Consumption Taxation: A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation

Rafael Berriel, Stanford University
Ravi Jagadeesan, Stanford University

9:45 am

Putting the 'Finance' into 'Public Finance': A Theory of Capital Gains Taxation

Mark A. Aguiar, Princeton University and NBER
Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich

10:30 am

Break

Session 2: Redistribution

11:00 am

Redistribution and Unemployment Insurance

Antoine Ferey, Sciences Po

11:45 am

Sustainable Social Security

Alessia Russo, University of Padua
Francesco Lancia, University of Vienna
Timothy Worrall, The University of Edinburgh
Sergio Cappellini, University of Navarra

12:30 pm

Lunch

Session 3: Macro Policy

1:30 pm

The Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Policy Uncertainty

Diego R. Känzig, Northwestern University and NBER
Konstantinos Gavriilidis, University of Stirling
Ramya Raghavan, Northwestern University
James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER

2:15 pm

Tax Productivity and Development: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis

Radhika Goyal, University of California, San Diego
Anders Jensen, Harvard University and NBER
David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University

3:00 pm

Break

Session 4: Interest Rates and Public Finance

3:30 pm

Rethinking Short-Term Real Interest Rates and Term Spreads using very Long-Run Data

Paul Schmelzing, Boston College
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER
Barbara Rossi, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra

4:15 pm

The Fragility of Government Funding Advantage

Jonathan Payne, Princeton University
Balint Szoke, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

5:00 pm

Adjourn