SI 2016 Macro Public Finance

Dirk Krueger and Aleh Tsyvinski, Organizers

July 21, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 21
Till O. Gross, Carleton University

Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Transfer Union
9:00 am
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation
9:00 am
Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Mirrlees meets Diamond-Mirrlees
11:00 am
Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics

Optimal Automatic Stabilizers
11:00 am
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance
1:30 pm
Arpad Abraham, University of Bristol
Susanne Forstner, Stockholm University

Tax Progressivity, Performance Pay and Search Frictions
1:30 pm
Nezih Guner, CEMFI
Remzi Kaygusuz, Sabanci University
Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University

Rethinking the Welfare State
3:30 pm
Juan Carlos Conesa, Stony Brook University

Macroeconomic effects of Medicare
3:30 pm
Brant Abbott, Queen's University
Dominik Sachs, University of St. Gallen

Universal versus Targeted Preschools: A Mechanism-Design Approach