Public Economics Program Meeting

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

April 13-14, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

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, 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
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, California State University, Fullerton

On the Nature of Entrepreneurship
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
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
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
1:30 pm
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
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
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
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
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
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
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
9:40 am
Antoine B. Levy, University of California, Berkeley

Regulating Housing Quality: Evidence from France
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
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
12:20 pm
Asger L. Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER
Niels Johannesen, University of Oxford
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER
Emil Toft Hansen, University of Copenhagen

Disaggregated Economic Accounts
1:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn