Handbook of Public Economics Conference:
December 8-9, 2011
Alumni House - UC Berkeley
Sponsored by the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance




Thursday, December 8, 2011

8:30 am – 10:50 am:

                    Douglas Bernheim, Stanford, “Behavioral Public Economics” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Dan Silverman, Michigan - Discussion

                    Jim Andreoni, UCSD, “Charitable Giving” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Louis Kaplow, Harvard - Discussion

10:50 pm – 11:20 am: Break

11:20 pm – 12:30 pm:

                    Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia, “Taxation of Transfers and Wealth” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Alan Auerbach, UC Berkeley
- Discussion

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Break

1:30 pm – 3:50 pm:

                    Peter Diamond, MIT and Ivan Werning, MIT, “Dynamic Taxation”
                    Discussant: Mikhail Golosov, Princeton
- Discussion

                    Ed Glaeser, Harvard, “Urban Public Finance” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Pat Kline, UC Berkeley - Discussion

3:50 pm - 4:20 pm Break

4:20 pm – 5:30 pm:

                    Michael Keen, IMF, and Kai Konrad, Max Planck Institute,“International Tax Competition” - Presentation
                    Discussant: David Wildasin, Kentucky - Discussion


Friday, December 9, 2011

8:30 am – 10:50 am:

                    Raj Chetty, Harvard, and Amy Finkelstein, MIT,“Connecting Theory to Data in Analyzing Social Insurance” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Hilary Hoynes, UC Davis - Discussion

                    Tim Besley, LSE, and Torsten Persson, IIES,“Public Finance and Development” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Roger Gordon, UCSD - Discussion

10:50 pm – 11:20 am: Break

11:20 am – 12:30 pm:

                    Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics, and Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley, “Optimal Labor Income Taxation” - Presentation
                    Discussant: Joel Slemrod, Michigan - Discussion

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Break


Picture Gallery of Conference


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