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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

NBER Research Group on Macro Public Finance

 

July 21, 2011

 

Dirk Krueger and Aleh Tsyvinski, Organizers

 

Charles Suite B

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 20:

 

 

6:00 pm

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

 

 

Thursday, July 21:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Welcome and Introduction

 

Dirk Krueger & Aleh Tsyvinski

 

Guest Speaker to be Confirmed

 

 

9:15 am

Ali Shourideh, University of Minnesota

 

Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Income: A Mirrleesian Approach to Capital Accumulation

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Casey Rothschild, Middlebury College

 

Florian Scheuer, Stanford University an NBER

 

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

 

 

11:15 am

Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and NBER

 

Manuel Amador, Stanford University and NBER

 

Fiscal Policy in Debt-Constrained Economies

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:15 pm

Nezih Guner, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

 

Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University

 

Remzi Kaygusuz, Sabanci University

 

Taxation and Household Labor Supply.

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Camille Landais, Stanford University

 

Pascal Michaillat, London School of Economics

 

Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Optimal Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle

 

 

3:15 pm

Claudio Michelacci, CEMFI

 

Hernan Ruffo, CEMFI

 

Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

7:00 pm

Conference Dinner (on your own budget, sorry!)