SI 2018 Macro Public Finance
Dirk Krueger, Aleh Tsyvinski, Florian Scheuer, and Stefanie Stantcheva, Organizers
July 19, 2018
University Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Wednesday, July 18 | ||
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |
| Thursday, July 19 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| Session 1: Taxation and Trade | ||
| 9:00 am |
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Robots, Trade, and Luddism |
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Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia Ali Shourideh, Carnegie Mellon University Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach |
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Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting |
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| 10:45 am | Break | |
| Session 2: Theory of Optimal Policy | ||
| 11:00 am |
Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER Market Power and Income Taxation |
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Maxim Troshkin, University of Pennsylvania Implications of Uncertainty for Optimal Policy |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Session 3: Taxation of Capital and Entrepreneurial Income | ||
| 1:30 pm |
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Alexander Ludwig, Goethe University Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk |
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Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame Taxes, Private Equity, and Evolution of Income Inequality in the US |
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| Session 4: Optimal Taxes over the Life Cycle | ||
| 3:30 pm |
Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota and NBER Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER Optimal Progressivity with Age-Dependent Taxation |
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Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |