NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING
Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr., Organizers
November 1-2, 2007
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1:
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM B. DOUGLAS BERNHEIM,
Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for
Behavioral Welfare Economics
(Joint with Antonio Rangel)
Discussant: DANIEL SILVERMAN,
2:15 PM Break
2:45 PM EDUARDO M. ENGEL,
RONALD FISCHER, CEA
The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships
(Joint with Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic)
Discussant: RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM ALAN J. AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems
(Joint with Ronald Lee)
Discussant: PETER A. DIAMOND, MIT and NBER
5:45 PM Adjourn
6:15 PM Reception/Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
Dinner Speaker: EDWARD P. LAZEAR, Council of
Economic Advisers (On Leave)
9:00 PM Shuttle Van Departs Harvard Faculty
Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM, PAGE 2:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta
Hotel for
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta
Hotel for
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM WILLIAM G. GALE, Brookings Institution
Effects of Individual
Development Accounts on Asset Purchase and Saving Behavior:
Evidence from a Controlled Experiment
(Joint with Emil Apostolov, Gary V. Engelhardt, Michael Eriksen,
Gregory Mills, Rhiannon Patterson)
Discussant: KATHERINE BAICKER,
10:00 AM LOUIS KAPLOW,
Optimal Policy with
Heterogeneous Preferences
Discussant: IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM HANMING FANG,
Dynamic Inefficiencies
in Employment-Based Health Insurance Systems:
(Joint with Alessandro Gavazza)
Discussant: AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and
NBER
12:45 PM Lunch
1:30 PM ANDREI SHLEIFER,
The Effect of
Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
Discussant: JOEL SLEMROD,
2:45 PM Adjourn
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