Presentations
This page gives details on Richard Evans' economic presentations since 2006.
2023
"FiscalSim: Introduction to Open Source State and National Policy Analysis", session title: Open Source Analysis of State and National Tax Policy, 47th Annual Meeting, Association of Private Enterprise Education, Cancún, Mexico, April 18, 2023.
"FiscalSim: A CGO Open Source Microsimulation Model and Foundation of CGO's Open Policy Modeling", CGO Fellows Workshop, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, April 7, 2023.
"Demographics.py: A Python module for working with UN Population Data", PSL Demo Day, Policy Simulation Library, April 3, 2023. [YouTube video]
"Introduction to Dynamic Data Visualization", CGO Fellows Workshop, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, March 24, 2023.
"FiscalSim: Open source microsimulation model of US and state household tax and benefit policy and web application", CGO Winter Conference, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, February 23, 2023.
2022
"The Secret Sauce of Stitching Functions: Parametric Functions for Natural and Smooth Imputation", PSL Demo Day, Policy Simulation Library, May 16, 2022. [YouTube video]
"50-state Tax and Benefit Microsimulation Project", Center for Growth and Opportunity, Logan, UT, May 11, 2022.
"OG-USA and OG-Core Demo and Tutorial", Policy Simulation Library DC Workshop: Open Source Tools for Analyzing Tax Policy, Washington, DC, March 25, 2022.
2021
"US Debt, Deficits, and Strategies for Stabilization", PSL Demo Day, Policy Simulation Library, December 15, 2021. [YouTube video]
"Open-source Collaboration, Research, and Policy Analysis", Center for Growth and Opportunity, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, November 19, 2021.
"A General Equilibrium Analysis of UBI in the UK", Basic Income Earth Network BIEN Congress 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, August 19, 2021.
"Dynamic and Distributional Analysis of a UBI in the United States", 2021 North American basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress, June 19, 2021.
"How to Use OG-USA", PSL Demo Day, Policy Simulation Library, January 11, 2021. [YouTube video]
2020
"Roundtable Dialogue: An Open Comparison of 2020 Presidential Candidate Tax Proposals", Baker Institute webinar, October 16, 2020.
"2020 Election Series--Fiscal Policy and the U.S. Economy in the Wake of COVID-19: Taxes, Spending, and Economic Growth", with Joyce Beebe, Jorge Barro, John Diamond, and Maya MacGuineas, Baker Institute webinar, October 13, 2020.
"Scaling Open Source Policy Models and Analyzing the Biden Plan", Science Thursday webcast with Matthew Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Coiled.io, September 3, 2020.
"Analysis of an Employer Payroll Tax", with Jason DeBacker, Matt Jensen, and Don Boyd, Connecticut Department of Revenue, via Zoom meeting, June 25, 2020.
"Public Debt, Interest Rates, and Negative Shocks," American Economic Association annual meeting, in session "Is United States Deficit Policy Playing with Fire?", San Diego, California, January 4, 2020.
2019
"Public Debt, Interest Rates, and Negative Shocks," HEC Lausanne, Department of Finance, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 6, 2019.
"Building a Student Mentored Research Program around Open Source Resources," Southern Utah University, Department of Economics, Cedar City, Utah, November 22, 2019.
"Advanced Git and GitHub Research Collaboration," NYU Stern Economic Pre-docs Training Program, New York University, September 20-22, 2019.
"OG-India: Overlapping generations model of fiscal policy for India," with Jason DeBacker, Tax Policy Research Unit of India, Delhi, India, August 19, 2019.
"Open Source Modeling Tools for Fiscal Analysis," with Jason DeBacker, The World Bank, June 26, 2019.
"Microsimulation Modeling: Data, Integration, Collaboration, and Transparency," Social Security Advisory Board, Informing Policy: A Review of Social Security's MINT Microsimulation Model, Washington, DC, May 30, 2019.
"Overlapping Generations Model Roundtable: Model Comparisons from a Stylized Social Security Experiment", National Tax Association 49th Annual Spring Symposium, Washington, DC, May 16, 2019.
"DeBacker-Evans OG-USA Model: Primer, Examples, and Contributor Guide," Tax Policy Center/Urban Institute, Washington, DC, April 29, 2019.
"DeBacker-Evans OG-USA Model: Intro, Primer, Examples, and Contributor Guide," Policy Simulation Library (PSL) Meetup, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, January 29, 2019. [slides, video (my talk starts at minute 10:29)]
2018
"DeBacker-Evans OG-USA Model: Effects of a Social Security Benefit Cut." with Jason DeBacker. CBO Overlapping Generations Models Symposium, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC, December 17, 2018.
"Discussant: Carbon Taxes: Output and Distributional Effects." Prospects for Economic Growth in the United States, Rice University, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Center for Public Finance, Houston, TX, December 7, 2018.
"Open Source Dynamic Analysis: TCJA, EITC, and Beyond." Tax Economists Forum, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC, April 18, 2018. [slides]
"Open Source Modeling and Government Revenue Estimators." Congressional Budget Office, senior leadership, Washington, DC, April 17, 2018. [slides]
"Open Source Modeling for Policy Analysis, Research, and Teaching." University of Chicago, Computational Social Science Workshop, Chicago, IL, February 1, 2018. [slides] [papers]
2016
"Integrating Microsimulation Tax Functions into a DGE Macroeconomic Model: A Canonical Example." Fiscal Analysis section, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC, September 21, 2016.
"Integrating Microsimulation Tax Functions into a DGE Macroeconomic Model: A Canonical Example." Initiative for Computational Economics, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California, July 18, 2016.
"Introducing the Open Source Policy Center: Making Tax Policy Transparent, Accessible, and Collaborative." Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, April 15, 2016.
"Introducing the Open Source Policy Center: Making Tax Policy Transparent, Accessible, and Collaborative.'' American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, April 14, 2016.
"The Distributional Effects of Redistributional Tax Policy." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, February 10, 2016.
"The Distributional Effects of Redistributional Tax Policy." University of Chicago, Masters Program in Computational Social Sciences, January 15, 2016.
2015
"The Distributional Effects of Redistributional Tax Policy." Albers School of Business, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, November 23, 2015.
"The Distributional Effects of Redistributional Tax Policy." 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2015.
"The Mind of Pete Carroll: Tax Policy, Inequality, and State Competitiveness." keynote address at Annual Dinner of the Washington Research Council, Seattle, Washington, May 28, 2015.
"OSPC Dynamic Scoring Model: An Open Source Model for Dynamic Revenue Estimates." Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2015.
"OSPC Dynamic Scoring Model: An Open Source Model for Dynamic Revenue Estimates." PwC, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2015.
"OSPC Dynamic Scoring Model: An Open Source Model for Dynamic Revenue Estimates." American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2015.
"OSPC Dynamic Scoring Model: An Open Source Model for Dynamic Revenue Estimates." Joint Committee on Taxation, Washington, D.C., April 1, 2015.
"U.S. Healthcare Spending Trends from Aggregated Monthly Claims Data." Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, Medical Spending Across the Developed World, London, England, March 27, 2015.
2014
"The Distributional Effects of Redistributional Tax Policy." Utah State University, Logan, Utah, November 14,2014.
"A Big Data Approach to Optimal Sales Taxation." Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), Summer 2014 Workshop, Stanford, California, July 30, 2014.
"A Big Data Approach to Optimal Taxation." Tax Economists Forum, Hall of the States, Washington, DC, July 9, 2014.
"A Big Data Approach to Optimal Sales Taxation.'' American Economic Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 4, 2014.
2013
"A Markov Regime-switching Approach to Estimating Health Care Cost Dynamics." BYU Computational Public Economics Conference 2013, Park City, Utah, December 12, 2013.
"Immiserating Fiscal Policy." Hoover Institution Summer 2013 Computational Economics Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, California, July 30, 2013.
"A Big Data Approach to Optimal Sales Taxation." Hoover Institution Summer 2013 Computational Economics Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, California, July 29, 2013.
"A Big Data Approach to Optimal Sales Taxation." Society for Computational Economics, International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 12,2013.
"Surprises in the U.S. economy in 2012 and what might surprise in 2013." Utah Economic Review, Utah Economic Council, hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Wasatch Front Economic Forum, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 24, 2013.
2012
"Europe in a Nutshell: Will it Crack? (Economy and Crisis Panel)," Center for the Study of Europe, Wheatley Institution, and Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, September 28, 2012.
"U.S. Recovery, Interest Rates, European Debt/Banking Crisis, and Chinese Slowdown," Association for Financial Professionals of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 26, 2012.
"Fiscal Multipliers and Time-inconsistent Preferences," Quantitative Society for Pensions and Savings, Summer Workshop, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 16, 2012.
"Fiscal Multipliers and Time-inconsistent Preferences," Midwest Macro Meetings, Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, May 12, 2012.
"Determinants of Short-run Consumer Lending Interest Rates," Wasatch Front Economic Forum luncheon, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 17, 2012.
"The Effects of the European Debt Crisis on the United States and Utah," Utah Economic Review, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Wasatch Front Economic Forum, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 12, 2012.
"When will the Social Security Trust Fund Run Out? Simulation by Linearization around the Current State," joint with Jeremy Perdue and Kerk Phillips, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, January 6, 2012.
2011
"Is the Euro Toast?" joint with Wade Jacoby, Center for the Study of Europe and Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, October 5, 2011.
"Game Over: Simulating and Quantifying Fiscal Limits," joint with Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Kerk L. Phillips. National Bureau of Economic Research, Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis pre-conference, Boston, Massachusetts, July 15, 2011.
"OLG Life Cycle Model Transition Paths," joint with Kerk L. Phillips. Society for Computational Economics, 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, San Francisco, California, June 29, 2011.
"National Recovery, Fiscal Woes, No Inflation, and Bank Lending," Utah CEO Forum, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 28, 2011.
"Utah's Fiscal Comparative Advantage Emerging from Recession," Utah Economic Review, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Governors Office of Planning and Budget, Wasatch Front Economic Forum, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 19, 2011.
2010
"Utah Exports and the World Economy," Utah CEO Forum, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 21, 2010.
"Bailouts and Regulation," joint with Scott Condie. Quantitative Society for Pensions and Savings, Summer Workshop, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 20-21, 2010.
"Bailouts and Regulation," joint with Scott Condie. Midwest Macro Meetings, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, April 30-May 2, 2010.
"The Cost of Capital: Monetary Policy, Government Spending, and Inflation Expectations," ACG Utah (private equity association) 2010 Growth Conference and Capital Connection, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 12, 2010.
2009
"OLG Life Cycle Models: New Solution Methods and Applications," joint with Kerk Phillips. Quantitative Society for Pensions and Savings, Summer Workshop, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 21-22, 2009.
2008
"The Current Economic Crisis," with James R. Kearl and David E. Spencer, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 15, 2008.
"Openness and Inflation with Imperfect Competition: Theory and Evidence," Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., January 2008.
"Openness and Inflation with Imperfect Competition: Theory and Evidence," Department of Economics, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, January 2008.
2007
"Optimal Monetary Policy in a Two-country Overlapping Generations Model with Imperfect Competition," Midwest Macro Meetings, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, April 27--29, 2007.
2006
"The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: Myth or Measurable," joint with Yingyao Hu. Texas Econometrics Camp XI, Huntsville, Texas, February 25--26, 2006.