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CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium 2016
May 19 - 20, 2016, St. Gallen
CEPR London and University of St. Gallen (FGN-HSG)
Organizers:
Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics & CEPR)
Christian Keuschnigg (University of St. Gallen & CEPR)
Location: Einstein Conference Center, St. Gallen
THURSDAY, May 19, 2016
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Registration, Tea and Coffee |
| 10.30 - 12.00 |
Session 1 (Chaired by: Christian Keuschnigg, University of St Gallen and CEPR)
The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Macroeconomic Stabilization
*Pascal Michaillat (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley)
The Optimal Design of Student Financial Aid
*Sebastian Findeisen (University of Mannheim)
Dominik Sachs (European University Institute)
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| 12.00 - 13.00 |
Buffet Lunch |
| 13.00 - 14.30 |
Session 2 (Chaired by: Winfried Koeniger, University of St Gallen and CEPR)
Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance
*Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)
Private provision of social insurance: drug-specific price elasticities and pricing in Medicare Part D
Liran Einav (Stanford University)
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
*Maria Polyakova (Stanford University) |
| 14.30 - 15.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 15.00 - 16.30 |
Session 3 (Chaired by: Monika Buetler, University of St Gallen)
Teachers’ Pay for Performance in the Long-Run: The Dynamic Pattern of Treatment Effects on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood
*Victor Lavy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)
The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Test
*Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University)
Petra Persson (Stanford University and CEPR) |
| 16.30 - 17.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17.00 - 18.30 |
Session 4 (Chaired by: Beatrix Eugster, University of St Gallen)
Cognitive and non-cognitive costs of daycare 0-2 for girls
Margherita Fort (University of Bologna)
Andrea Ichino (European University Institute and CEPR)
*Giulio Zanella (University of Bologna)
Inheritance and wealth inequality: Evidence from population registers
Mikael Elinder (Uppsala University)
Oscar Erixson (Uppsala University)
*Daniel Waldenström (Uppsala University)
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| 19:30 |
Dinner |
FRIDAY, May 20, 2016
| 08.30 - 09.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 09.00 - 10.30 |
Session 5 (Chaired by: Tony Strittmatter, University of St Gallen)
The Production of Information in an Online World
*Julia Cagé (Sciences Po, Paris)
Nicolas Hervé (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel – INA)
Marie-Luce Viaud (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel – INA)
Do disaster appeals reduce other donations? Evidence from the U.K.
Kimberley Scharf (University of Warwick and CEPR)
*Sarah Smith (University of Bristol, IFS and CEPR)
Mark Wilhelm (IUPUI) |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Transfer to University of St. Gallen |
| 11.00 - 12.30 |
Keynote Lecture: Alan Auerbach
Tax Reform in an Era of Budget Stress, Inequality and International Mobility |
| 12.30 - 13.00 |
Apero |
| 13.00 - 13.15 |
Transfer to Congress Center Einstein |
| 13.15 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.30 |
Session 6 (Chaired by: Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics and CEPR)
How to Delay Labor Market Exit and Pension Claiming? Financial Incentives with
Defaults
*Rafael Lalive (HEC - University of Lausanne and CEPR)
Stefan Staubli (Stefan Staubli, University of Calgary and CEPR)
Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt, Christian Keuschnigg
Heterogeneous Tax Sensitivity of Firm-level Investments
Peter Egger (ETH Zürich, KOF and CEPR)
Katharina Erhardt (ETH Zürich, KOF)
*Christian Keuschnigg (HSG, University of St Gallen and CEPR) |
Presenters are marked with a *.
Each presenter has 45 minutes (including questions from the floor).