Economic Policy in the Modern Welfare State

ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE
MODERN WELFARE STATE

CEPR PP SYMPOSIUM 2009

Hosted by
University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark; 19-20 June 2009

PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 19 JUNE
Session 1:	Keynote Speakers
09.00 - 10.00	The Mirrlees Review: Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century Richard Blundell (University College London and CEPR)
10.00 - 10.15	Coffee Break
10.15 - 11.15	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)
11.15 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30	On the Future of Capital Taxation Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics and CEPR)
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch Buffet
Session 2:	Venue: St. Øvelsessal, Studiestræde 6
13.30 - 14.30	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)
14.30 - 15.30	Informal Taxation Benjamin Olken (MIT) *Monica Singhal (Harvard University)
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00	Unemployed but Optimistic: Optimal Insurance Design with Biased Beliefs Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
17.00 - 18.00	Unequal Geographic Distribution of Federal Taxation David Albouy (University of Michigan)
19.30	Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
Session 3:	Venue: St. Øvelsessal, Studiestræde 6
09.00 - 10.00	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)
10.00 - 11.00	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)
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30	What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms Francesco Billari (Università Bocconi) *Vincenzo Galasso (Università Bocconi and CEPR)
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch Buffet
Session 4:	Venue: St. Øvelsessal, Studiestræde 6
13.30 - 14.30	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)
14.30 - 15.30	The Effect of the Polish Flat Tax on Taxable Income of Entrepreneurs Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00	Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods Raj Chetty (Harvard University)
17.00	End of Conference
* Indicates the presenter
Keynote speakers have 45 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes Q&A.
All other speakers will have 60 minutes for their presentations, taking questions as they come.
Organizers:	Claus Thustrup Kreiner (University of Copenhagen) Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics and CEPR) Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR)
CEPR and the University of Copenhagen are grateful for the financial support from the following programme and network:
-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.