SI 2024 Macro Public Finance
Dirk Krueger, Florian Scheuer, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Aleh Tsyvinski, Organizers
July 18, 2024
Skyline AB
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Thursday, July 18 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 8:45 am | Session 1: Taxation and Fiscal Policy | |
| 9:00 am |
Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER Michael D. Cai, Northwestern University Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents |
|
| 9:45 am |
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER Aversion to Complexity, with Applications to Simple Contracts, Simple Tax Systems and the Cost of Inflation |
|
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | Session 2: Climate Change | |
| 11:00 am |
Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim Lennard Schlattmann, University of Bonn Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies |
|
| 11:45 am |
Thomas Bourany, University of Chicago Optimal Energy Policy and the Inequality of Climate Change |
|
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm | Session 3: Inequality and Redistribution | |
| 1:30 pm |
Wendy A. Morrison, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Redistribution and Investment |
|
| 2:15 pm |
Jean-Baptiste Michau, Ecole Polytechnique Yoshiyasu Ono, Osaka University Matthias Schlegl, ISER, Osaka University The Preference for Wealth and Inequality: Towards a Piketty Theory of Wealth Inequality |
|
| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm | Session 4: Health | |
| 3:30 pm |
Youngsoo Jang, University of Queensland Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia Ponpoje Porapakkarm, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo) Mortality Regressivity and Pension Design |
|
| 4:15 pm |
Juergen Jung, Towson University Chung Tran, Australian National University Health Heterogeneity, Portfolio Choice and Wealth Inequality |
|
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |