Public Economics Program Meeting

John N. Friedman, Adam Isen, and Juliana Londoño-Vélez, Organizers

April 13-14, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 13
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Who Bears the Burden of Rising Health Care Spending in the US? Evidence from Hospital Mergers
9:40 am	On the Nature of Entrepreneurship
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Earnings Business Cycles: The Covid Recession, Recovery, and Policy Response
11:20 am	Tax Expenditures by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity
12:00 pm	Lunch
12:50 pm	Re-examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach
1:30 pm	The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets
2:10 pm	Break
	Public Economics Program Meeting Begins
2:40 pm	Managers and Public Hospital Performance
3:20 pm	The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector
4:00 pm	Break
4:20 pm	Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes
5:00 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Reception
6:00 pm	Group Dinner Remarks and Conversation with Brian Deese, Former Director of the National Economic Council, The White House
Friday, April 14
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax
9:40 am	Regulating Housing Quality: Evidence from France
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Diffuse Bunching with Frictions: Theory and Estimation
11:20 am	Break
11:40 am	The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power: Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives
12:20 pm	Disaggregated Economic Accounts
1:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn