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



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