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Wednesday, July 15:
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6:00 pm
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Clambake, Royal Sonesta
Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
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Thursday, July 16
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Pascal Michaillat, London School of Economics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley
and NBER
The
Optimal Use of Public-Good Spending for Macroeconomic Stabilization
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9:45 am
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Pedro Brinca, European University Institute
Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER
Hans A. Holter, Uppsala University
Laurence Malafry, Stockholm University
Fiscal
Multipliers in the 21st Century
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10:30 am
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Break
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10:45 am
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Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California at Los
Angeles and NBER
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Duke University and
NBER
Owen M. Zidar, University of Chicago and NBER
State Taxes
and Spatial Misallocation
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11:30 am
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Baris Kaymak, University
of Montreal
Markus Poschke, McGill University
The evolution of wealth inequality over half a century: the role of
skills, taxes and institutions
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER
Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER
Optimal
Taxation with Behavioral Agents
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1:45 pm
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Mariacristina De Nardi,
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER
Fang Yang, Louisiana State University
Wealth
Inequality, Family Background, and Estate Taxation
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2:30 pm
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Break
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2:45 pm
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Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Alejandro Badel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Sufficient Statistic Approach: Predicting the Top of the Laffer Curve
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3:30 pm
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Sebastian Dyrda, University of Minnesota
Marcelo Pedroni, University of Minnesota
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks
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4:15 pm
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Break
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4:30 pm
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Juergen Jung, Towson University
Chung Tran, Australian National University
Social
Health Insurance: A Quantitative Exploration
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5:15 pm
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Adjourn
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