NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Social Security Working Group Meeting
Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers
April 4, 2002
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 4:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM KENT SMETTERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions
(Joint with CINDY PARK)
Discussant: JEFFREY MIRON, Boston University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Panel Discussion: The Bush Social Security Commission's Recommendations
JEFFREY BROWN, Harvard University and NBER
Overview and Options 1 and 2
ROBERT POZEN, Commission Member and Harvard University
Option 3
ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER
Critique #1
JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
Critique #2
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM TITO BOERI and GUIDO TABELLINI, Bocconi University
AXEL BOERSCH-SUPAN, University of Mannheim and NBER
Pension Reforms and the Opinions of European Citizens
Discussant: COURTNEY COILE, Wellesley College and NBER
2:00 PM Break
2:30 PM ALWYN YOUNG, University of Chicago and NBER
Demographic Fluctuations, Generational Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers
Discussant: DAVID WEIL, Brown University and NBER
3:30 PM LAURENCE BALL, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER
Intergenerational Risk Sharing in the Spirit of Arrow, Debreu, and Rawls, with
Applications to Social Security Design
Discussant: STEPHEN ZELDES, Columbia University and NBER
4:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
Dinner Speaker: MICHAEL BOSKIN, Stanford University and NBER
Do We Really Have a National Debt? Deferred Taxes in the Theory and
Practice of Public Finance
3/14/02