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 |
Zarek Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER Zack Cooper, Yale University and NBER Stuart V. Craig, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lev R. Klarnet, Harvard University Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury Corbin L. Miller, Internal Revenue Service Who Bears the Burden of Rising Health Care Spending in the US? Evidence from Hospital Mergers |
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| 9:40 am |
Tobey Kass, Department of the Treasury Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER Thomas J. May, University of Minnesota On the Nature of Entrepreneurship |
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| 10:20 am | Break | |
| 10:40 am |
Jeff Larrimore, Federal Reserve Board Jacob Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation David Splinter, Joint Committee on Taxation Earnings Business Cycles: The Covid Recession, Recovery, and Policy Response |
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| 11:20 am |
Julie Anne Cronin, Department of the Treasury Portia Defilippes, Department of the Treasury Robin Fisher, Department of the Treasury Tax Expenditures by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:50 pm |
Kevin Rinz, Washington Center for Equitable Growth John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau Re-examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach |
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| 1:30 pm |
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Harvard University Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets |
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| 2:10 pm | Break | |
| Public Economics Program Meeting Begins | ||
| 2:40 pm |
Cristobal Otero, Columbia University Pablo Munoz, Universidad de Chile Managers and Public Hospital Performance |
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| 3:20 pm |
Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University Zachary S. Templeton, University of Pennsylvania The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector |
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| 4:00 pm | Break | |
| 4:20 pm |
Matthias Rodemeier, Bocconi University John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Gregory K. Sun, Washington University in St Louis Sutanuka Roy, Australian National University Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes |
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| 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 |
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| Friday, April 14 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am |
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Mathilde Muñoz, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, CNRS, Univ. de Lyon Bertrand Garbinti, CREST - IP Paris Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax |
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| 9:40 am |
Antoine B. Levy, University of California, Berkeley Regulating Housing Quality: Evidence from France |
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| 10:20 am | Break | |
| 10:40 am |
Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania Allan A. Davids, University of Cape Town Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London Diffuse Bunching with Frictions: Theory and Estimation |
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| 11:20 am | Break | |
| 11:40 am |
Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER Nirupama L. Rao, University of Michigan The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power: Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives |
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| 12:20 pm |
Asger L. Andersen, University of Copenhagen Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER Niels Johannesen, Oxford University Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER Emil Toft Hansen, University of Copenhagen Disaggregated Economic Accounts |
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| 1:00 pm | Lunch and Adjourn | |