XI Summer School in Public Economics

XI Summer School in Public Economics
International Center for Public Policy (ICePP)
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University, Atlanta
Sponsored by the Fundación Rafael Del Pino and
the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Spain
September 7th – 11th , 2015
Director: Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Coordinator: Luis Ayala
Sunday September 6th
18:00
Welcome
Monday September 7th
10:00 – 10:15
Introduction
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University
10:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 14:00
Session I
Optimal Design of the Tax System
Lunch
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
14:00 – 16:00
Session II
Research in the Economics of Politics and
Institutions
19: 00 - Dinner at Dr. Martinez’s Residence
Tuesday September 8th
Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota
10:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 15:00
The Great Depressions
Session III
Lunch
Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University
Session V
Cost and Benefit Analysis
Wednesday September 9th
Tom Mroz, Georgia State University
8:30 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Economic Modeling of Behavioral Responses
Session VI
Coffee Break
Alberto Chong, Georgia State University
11:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 16:30
Quality of the Public Sector: Research and Policy
Issues
Session VII
Lunch
Session VIII
Participant Workshop I
Thursday September 10th
8:30 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 15:00
Session IX
Participant Workshop II
Coffee Break
Session X
Bill Fox, University of Tennessee
Taxation of E-Commerce and Tax Evasion
Lunch
Bart Hildreth, Georgia State University
15:00 – 17:00
Session XI
Subnational Borrowing: Research and Policy Analysis
Friday September 11th
Alberto Abadie, Harvard University
8:30 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:45
10:45 – 12:45
12:45
Session XII
New Research in Quasi – Experimental Methods in
Economics
Coffee Break
Session
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Closing
Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Michigan State University
Taxes and Low Income Individuals