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
Summer Institute 2018 master schedule
| 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 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 | |