Program

The breakdown of the time slots are as follows:
50 minutes for paper presentation
10 minutes for discussant
10 minutes for general discussion

Session Chair: Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

9:00 – 10:10am “Optimal Taxation and R&D Policies”
Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)
Discussant: Yena Park (University of Rochester)

10:10 – 11:20am “Taxation with Endogenous Types” (Paper 1) (Paper 2)
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Pierre Boyer (CREST, Ecole Polytechnique)

11:20 – 11:40am Coffee Break, Seigle Hall, Room 103

11:40 – 12:50pm “Optimal Prudential Taxation”
Catarina Reis (Catolica Lisbon)
(with D. Belchior)
Discussant: Sebastian Dyrda (University of Toronto)

12:50 – 2:00pm Lunch, Box lunch pick up in Seigle Hall, Room 104 (seating also in 104)

Session Chair: Jonathan Weinstein (Washington University in St. Louis)

2:00 – 3:10pm “Optimal Taxation with Optimal Tax Complexity: The Case of Estate Taxation”
John D. Wilson (Michigan State University)
(with P. Menchik)
Discussant: Benjamin Lockwood (University of Pennsylvania)

3:10 – 3:30pm Coffee Break, Seigle Hall, Room 103

3:30 – 4:40pm “Implications of Uncertainty for Optimal Policy”
Maxim Troshkin (Cornell University)
Discussant: Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

5:00 – 8:00pm Conference Dinner, Seigle Hall, 3rd floor Spillway, and Rooms 305/306

Session Chair: Marcus Berliant (Washington University in St. Louis)

9:00 – 10:10am “Optimal Taxation with Discrete Choice” (slides)
Christopher Sleet (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business)
Discussant: Marek Kapicka (CERGE-EI)

10:10 – 11:20am “Reciprocity versus Reelection: Theory and Experiment”
Allan Drazen (University of Maryland)
(with P. Dalmia and E. Ozbay)
Discussant: Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business)

11:20 – 11:40am Coffee Break, Seigle Hall, Room 103

11:40 – 12:50pm “Majority Rule and Selfishly Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules with Discrete Skill Levels”
John Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
(with C. Brett)
Discussant: Saumya Deojain (Washington University in St. Louis)

12:50 – 2:00pm Lunch, Box lunch pick up in Seigle Hall, Room 104 (seating also in 104)

Session Chair: SangMok Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)

2:00 – 3:30pm “Politically Feasible Reforms of Non-Linear Tax Systems”
Pierre Boyer (CREST, Ecole Polytechnique)
(with F. Bierbrauer)
Discussant: Abdoulaye Ndiaye (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

3:10 – 3:30pm Coffee Break, Seigle Hall, Room 103

3:30 – 4:40pm “The Politics of Flat Taxes”
Eric Young (University of Virginia)
(with D. Carroll and J. Dolmas)
Discussant: Catarina Reis (Catolica Lisbon)