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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis, pre-conference
July 14 and 15, 2011
Organizers: Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi
University Room A
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
Thursday, July 14:
8.30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Valery Ramey, University of California, San Diego and NBER
	What Do We Know About Fiscal Multipliers?
9:45 am	Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
	Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Francesco Giavazzi, IGIER - Universita' L.Bocconi and NBER
	Michael McMahon, University of Warwick
	The Effects of Spending Surprises
11:30 am	Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER
	Mathias Trabandt, European Central Bank
	Do Laffer Curves Differ Across Countries?
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Michael Keen, International Monetary Fund
	Tax Reform and Fiscal Stabilizations
2:15 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner: Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Sonesta)
Friday, July 15:
9.15 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:45 am	Eric Leeper, Indiana University and NBER
	Todd Walker, Indiana University
	Perceptions and Misperceptions of Fiscal Inflation
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
	Dorian Carloni, University of California, Berkeley
	Giampaolo Lecce, New York University
	The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments
11:30 am	Axel Borsch-Supan, University of Mannheim and NBER
	What is the European Experience with Entitlement Reforms?
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Pierre Cahuc, Science Po, Paris
	Stephane Carcillo, OECD
	Can Public Sector Wage Bills Be Reduced?
2:00 pm	Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
	Richard Evans and Kerk Phillips, Brigham Young University
	Fiscal Policy across Generations
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Charles Wyplosz, University of Geneva
	Fiscal Rules: Theoretical Issues and Historical Experiences
3:45 pm	Adjourn