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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

 

Macro Public Finance Workshop (MPF)

 

Dirk Krueger & Aleh Tsyvinski, Organizers

 

July 19, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A/B

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 18:

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

Thursday, July 19:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Welcome and Introduction

 

Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER

 

 

9:15 am

Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo

 

Gianluca Violante, New York University and NBER

 

Redistributive Taxation in a Partial Insurance Economy

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Alexander Bick, Goethe University

 

Nicola Fuchs-Schndeln, Goethe University

 

Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women Across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis

 

 

11:15 am

Ozan Bakis, Galatasaray University

 

Baris Kaymak, University of Montreal

 

Markus Poschke, McGill University

 

On the Optimality of Progressive Income Distribution

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Marek Kapicka, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Julian Neira, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Optimal Taxation in a Life-Cycle Economy with Endogenous Human Capital Formation

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Ali Shouridei, University of Pennsylvania

 

Maxim Troshkin, Yale University

 

Providing Efficient Incentives to Work: Retirement Ages and the Pension System

 

 

3:15 pm

Arpad Abraham, European University Institute

 

Sebastian Koehne, IIES, Stockholm University

 

Nicola Pavoni, University College London

 

Optimal Income Taxation with Asset Accumulation

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn