Oslo-Penn-Toronto Conference on Macro Public Finance
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Conference Money Macro Seminar
PCPSE Room 250 The Forum
United States
Agenda
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30-11:45 | Session 1: (Optimal) Policy Design |
| Omer Acikgoz, Marcus Hagedorn, Hans Holter and Yikai Wang: The Optimum Quantity of Capital and Debt | |
| Stephie Fried, Kevin Novan and William Peterman: Quantifying the Welfare and Equality Effects of Carbon-Tax Policy | |
| Uwe Thuemmel: Optimal Taxation of Robots | |
| 11:45 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-3:15 | Session 2: Idiosyncratic Risk and Social Insurance |
| Elin Halvorsen, Hans Holter, Serdar Ozkan and Kjetil Storesletten: Dissecting Idiosyncratic Income Risk | |
| Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura: Rethinking the Welfare State | |
| Naoki Aizawa, Soojin Kim and Serena Rhee: Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled | |
| 3:15-3:45 | Coffee Break |
| 3:45-6:00 | Session 3: Macroeconomic Consequences of Household Behavior |
| Lan Lan: Understanding the Saving Behavior of Chinese Households: Intergenerational Transfers and Housing | |
| Adrien Auclert and Kurt Mitman: Consumer Bankruptcy as Aggregate Demand Management | |
| Chris Busch, Zainab Iftikhar, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig and Irina Popova: Should Germany Build a New Wall: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 2015-2020(?) Refugee Wave |