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PROGRAMME
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FRIDAY 19 JUNE
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Session 1:
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Keynote Speakers
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09.00 - 10.00
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The Mirrlees Review: Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century
Richard Blundell (University College London and CEPR)
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10.00 - 10.15
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Coffee Break
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10.15 - 11.15
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Taxation and Labor Supply: New Theory and Danish Evidence
*Raj Chetty (Harvard University)
Anders Frederiksen (Aarhus School of Business)
John N. Friedman (University of California, Berkeley)
Tore Olsen (Copenhagen Business School)
Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University and CEPR)
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11.15 - 11.30
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Coffee Break
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11.30 - 12.30
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On the Future of Capital Taxation
Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics and CEPR)
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12.30 - 13.30
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Lunch Buffet
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Session 2:
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Venue: St. Øvelsessal, Studiestræde 6
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13.30 - 14.30
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Government Transfers and Political Support
*Marco Manacorda (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Andrea Vigorito (Universidad de la República)
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14.30 - 15.30
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Informal Taxation
Benjamin Olken (MIT)
*Monica Singhal (Harvard University)
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15.30 - 16.00
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Coffee Break
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16.00 - 17.00
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Unemployed but Optimistic: Optimal Insurance Design with Biased Beliefs
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
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17.00 - 18.00
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Unequal Geographic Distribution of Federal Taxation
David Albouy (University of Michigan)
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19.30
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Conference Dinner
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SATURDAY 20 JUNE
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Session 3:
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Venue: St. Øvelsessal, Studiestræde 6
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09.00 - 10.00
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Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
Daron Acemoglu (MIT and CEPR)
Georgy Egorov (Harvard University)
*Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Moscow and CEPR)
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10.00 - 11.00
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Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt
Zheng Song (Fudan University)
*Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo and CEPR)
Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich and CEPR)
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11.00 - 11.30
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Coffee Break
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11.30 - 12.30
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What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms
Francesco Billari (Università Bocconi)
*Vincenzo Galasso (Università Bocconi and CEPR)
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12.30 - 13.30
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Lunch Buffet
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Session 4:
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Venue: St. Øvelsessal, Studiestræde 6
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13.30 - 14.30
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Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries
*Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Claus Thustrup Kreiner (University of Copenhagen)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR)
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14.30 - 15.30
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The Effect of the Polish Flat Tax on Taxable Income of Entrepreneurs
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
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15.30 - 16.00
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Coffee Break
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16.00 - 17.00
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Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods
Raj Chetty (Harvard University)
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17.00
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End of Conference
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* Indicates the presenter
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Keynote speakers have 45 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes Q&A.
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All other speakers will have 60 minutes for their presentations, taking questions as they come.
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Organizers:
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Claus Thustrup Kreiner (University of Copenhagen)
Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics and CEPR)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR)
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CEPR and the University of Copenhagen are grateful for the financial support
from the following programme and network:
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-WEST: A research programme of excellence at University of Copenhagen
focusing on Economic Policy in the Modern Welfare State.
-EPRN: An Economic Policy Research Network among three Copenhagen-based research units, the Danish central bank and four Danish ministries.
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