Thursday May 7th @ 11am

Speaker: Anne Brockmeyer (IFS and UCL)

Title: "Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico"

with Alejandro Estefan, Karina Ramírez and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

Disscussant: Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

Thursday May 14th @ 11am

Speaker: Jacob Mortenson (Joint Committee on Taxation)

Title: "Net Saving Responses to Auto-Enrollment: Evidence from a Large Panel of Worker-Employer Linked Data." with Elena Derby and Kathleen Mackie

Discussant: Damon Jones (University of Chicago)

Thursday May 21th @ 11am

Speaker: Irem Güçeri (University of Oxford)

Title: "Quantifying and Alleviating Financing Constraints: Structural Evidence from a Policy Experiment"

Discussant: Toni Whited (University of Michigan)

Thursday May 28th @ 11am

Speaker: Nicolas Werquin (TSE)

Title: "Redistribution with Performance Pay" with Paweł Doligalski and Adboulaye Ndiaye

Discussant: Louis Kaplow (Harvard University)

Thursday June 4th @ 11am

Speaker: Daniel Reck (LSE)

Title: "Optimal Defaults with Normative Ambiguity" with Jacob Goldin

Discussant: Brigitte Madrian (BYU)

Thursday June 11th @ 11am

Speaker: Elena Patel (University of Utah)

Title: "Dynamic Patterns of Loss Use and Effective Tax Rates: Owners of S-Corporations" with Lucas Goodman and Molly Saunders-Scott

Discussant: Alan Auerbach (University of California at Berkeley)

Thursday June 18th @ 11am

Speaker: Jing Xing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Title: "China’s Proactive Fiscal Policy: Assessing the Early Impact of Tax Cuts on Small Firms" with Wei Cui, Mangying Wei and Weisi Xie

Discussant: Roger Gordon (UCSD)

Thursday June 25th @ 11am

Speaker: Dina Pomeranz (UZH)

Title: "The Failed Promise of Curbing Prot Shifting through Information Monitoring: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile " joint with Sebastian Bustos, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Jose Vila-Belda and Gabriel Zucman

Discussant: Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Chicago)

Thursday July 2nd @ 11am

Speaker: Mazhar Waseem (University of Manchester)

Title: "Overclaimed Refunds, Undeclared Sales, and Invoice Mills: Nature and Extent of Noncompliance in a Value-Added Tax"

Discussant: Anders Jensen (Harvard University)

Thursday July 9th @ 11am

Speaker: David Agrawal (University of Kentucky)

Title: "Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility" with Dirk Foremny and Clara Martínez-Toledano

Discussant: Camille Landais (LSE)

Thursday July 16th @ 11am

Speaker: Michela Giorcelli (UCLA)

Title: "The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets" with Nicola Bianchi

Discussant: Salomoé Beslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

Thursday July 23rd @ 11am

Speaker: Gabriel Ehrlich (University of Michigan)

Title: "Public Debt Levels and Real Interest Rates: Causal Evidence from Parliamentary Elections" with Aditi Thapar

Discussant: William Gale (Brookings Institution)

Thursday July 30th @ 11am

Speaker: Louis Kaplow (Harvard University)

Title: "Market Power and Income Taxation"

Discussant: Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)

Thursday August 6th @ 11am

Speaker: Constantine Yannelis (Chicago Booth)

Title: "Did the PPP Hit the Target?" joint with João Granja, Christos Makridis and Eric Zwick

Discussant: Jean-Noel Barrot (HEC)

Thursday August 13th @ 11am

Speaker: Tianyue Ruan (NUS)

Title: "Supporting Seniors: How Low-Income Elderly Individuals Respond to a Retirement Support Program" with Sumit Agarwal, Wenlan Qian, and Bernard Yeung

Discussant: Jeremy Tobacman (University of Delaware)

Thursday August 27th @ 11am

Speaker: Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern)

Title: "Take the Q Train: Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects" with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Constantine Kontokosta

Discussant: Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed)

Thursday September 3rd @ 11am

Speaker: Nadine Riedel (University of Münster)

Title: “What You Do (and What You Don’t) Get When Expanding the Net - Evidence from Forced Taxpayer Registrations in South Africa” with Collen Lediga and Kristina Strohmaier

Discussant: Dina Pomeranz (UZH)

Thursday September 10th @ 11am

Speaker: Pierre Bachas (World Bank)

Title: "Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution" with Lucie Gadenne and Anders Jensen

Discussant: Michael Best (Columbia University)

Thursday September 17th @ 11am

Speaker: Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB)

Title: "Permanent and Transitory Responses to Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from a Lifetime Exemption in Canada" with Adam Lavecchia

Discussant: Jim Poterba (MIT)

Thursday September 24th @ 11am

Speaker: Andreas Peichl (LMU Munich & ifo Institute)

Title: “Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty” joint with Paul Hufe and Ravi Kanbur

Discussant: Farbrizio Perri (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Thursday October 1st @ 11am

Speaker: Tim Layton (Harvard Medical School)

Title: "Liquidity and Healthcare Consumption: Evidence from Social Security Payments" with Tal Gross and Daniel Prinz

Discussant: Ben Handel (University of California at Berkeley)

Thursday October 8th @ 11am

Speaker: Speaker: Natasha Sarin (University of Pennsylvania)

Title: "Social Security and Trends in Inequality" with Sylvain Catherine and Max Miller

Discussant: Fatih Karahan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Thursday October 15th @ 11am

Speaker: Karol Mazur (University of Oxford)

Title: "College Education and Income Contingent Loans in Equilibrium: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation" with Kazushige Matsuda

Discussant: Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday October 22nd @ 11am

Speaker: Zachary Liscow (Yale University)

Title: "Why Is So Much Redistribution In-Kind and Not in Cash? Evidence from a Survey Experiment" with Abigail Pershing

Discussant: Matt Weinzierl (Harvard Business School)

Thursday October 29th @ 11am

Speaker: Matthew Collin (Brookings Institution)

Title: "Does the threat of being blacklisted change behavior? Regression discontinuity evidence from the EU's tax haven listing process"

Discussant: Ludvig Wier (University of California at Berkeley)

Thursday November 5th @ 11am

Speaker: Barra Roantree (ESRI/Trinity College Dublin)

Title: "Income tax and the careers of women"

Discussant: Victoria Prowse (Purdue University)

Thursday November 12th @ 11am

Speaker: Andrew Garin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Title: "Was the Arsenal of Democracy an Engine of Mobility? Public Investment and the Roots of Mid-century Manufacturing Opportunity" with Jonathan Rothbaum

Discussant: Eric Chyn (Dartmouth College)

Thursday Janaury 21st @ 11am

Speaker: Daniela Scur (Cornell Dyson)

Title: "Organizational capacity and profit shifting" with Katarzyna Bilicka

Discussant: Jim Hines (University of Michigan)

Thursday Janaury 28th @ 11am

Speaker: Audrey Guo (Santa Clara University)

Title: "Labor Market Effects of Medicaid Expansion and Premium Subsidies: New Evidence from Panel Data" with Jonathan Zhang

Discussant: Sarah Miller (University of Michigan)

Thursday February 4th @ 11am

Speaker: Lucas Goodman (U.S. Department of the Treasury)

Title: "Abandoned Retirement Savings" with Shanthi Ramnath and Anita Mukherjee

Discussant: Keith Ericson (Boston University)

Thursday February 11th @ 11am

Speaker: Cameron La Point (Yale)

Title: "Flip or Flop? Tobin Taxes in the Real Estate Market" with with Chun-Che Chi & Ming-Jen Lin

Discussant: Andy Haughwout (NY Fed)

Thursday February 18th @ 11am

Speaker: Dario Tortarolo (IFS and University of Nottingham)

Title: "Wage Effects of Employer-mediated Transfers"

Discussant: Marika Cabral (The University of Texas at Austin)

Thursday February 25th @ 11am

Speaker: Ben Lockwood (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton)

Title: "The Optimal Taxation of Lotteries" joint with Hunt Allcott and Dmitry Taubinsky

Discussant: Alex Imas (University of Chicago)

Thursday March 4th @ 11am

Speaker: Caroline Weber (University of Kentucky)

Title: "Getting into the Weeds of Tax Invariance"

Discussant: Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke University)

Thursday March 11th @ 11am

Speaker: Tatiana Homonoff (NYU)

Title: "Tax Filing and Take-Up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and EITC Participation" with Jacob Goldin, Rizwan Javaid, and Brenda Schafer

Discussant: Shanthi Ramnath (Chicago Fed)

Thursday March 18th @ 11am

Speaker: Rebecca Lester (Stanford Business School)

Title: "Tax Subsidy Information and Local Economic Effects." with Lisa De Simone and Anesh Ragunandan

Discussant: Xavier Giroud (Columbia University)

Thursday March 25th @ 11am

Speaker: Antoine Bozio (Paris School of Economics)

Title: "Follow the Money! Combining Household and Firm-Level Evidence to Unravel the Tax Elasticity of Dividends" with Laurent Bach, Brice Fabre, Arthur Guillouzouic, Claire Leroy Clement Malgouyres

Discussant: Eric Zwick (Unievrsity of Chicago)

Thursday April 1st @ 11am

PhD workshop

Speaker: Sophie Cottet (Paris School of Economics)

Title: "Payroll Tax Reductions for Minimum Wage Workers: Relative Labor Cost or Cash Windfall Effects?"

Discussant: Jacob Mortenson (Joint Committee on Taxation)

Speaker: Jennifer Mayo (University of Michigan)

Title: "Navigating the notches: Charity responses to ratings"

Discussant: Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M)

Speaker: Karl Schulz (University of Mannheim)

Title: "Redistribution of Return Inequality"

Discussant: Ashley Craig (University of Michigan)

Thursday April 8th @ 11am

PhD workshop

Speaker: Dena Lomonosov (University of Michigan)

Title: "Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Residential Housing Markets: Evidence from New Jersey "

Discussant: Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern)

Speaker: David Leite (Paris School of Economics)

Title: "Tax Withholding and Earnings Supply: Evidence from Bunching at the Withholding Eligibility"

Discussant: Laura Kawano (Michigan OTPR)

Speaker: Luisa Wallossek (LMU Munich)

Title: "Tax Non-Filing and Limited Redistribution"

Discussant: Nirupama Rao (Michigan Ross)

Thursday April 15th @ 11am

Speaker: Jaoanna Nairitomi (LSE)

Title: "The Effects of Cash Transfers on Formal Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil" with Francois Gerard and Joana Silva

Discussant: Paul Niehaus (UCSD)

Thursday April 22nd @ 11am

Speaker: Cailin Slattery (Columbia Business School)

Title: "Political economy of subsidy-giving"

Discussant: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn (Pomona College)

Thursday April 29th @ 11am

Speaker: Michael Best (Columbia University)

Title: “Greener on the other side: Inequity and Tax Collection" joint with François Gerard, Evan Kresch, Joana Naritomi, and Laura Zoratto.

Discussant: Gerard Domènech Arumí (Boston University)

Thursday May 6th @ 11am

Speaker: Ben Handel (University of California at Berkeley)

Title: "The Social Determinants of Health Insurance Choice: Evidence from the Netherlands"

Discussant: John Campbell (Harvard University)

Thursday May 13th @ 11am

Speaker: Sebastian Siegloch (ZEW)

Title: "Profit Taxation, R&D Spending and Innovation" with Ingo Isphording, Andreas Lichter, Max Löffer, Thu-Van Nguen and Felix Pöge

Discussant: Irem Güceri (University of Oxford)

Thursday September 16th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke University)

Title: "Capital Investment and Labor Demand: Evidence from 21st Century Tax Policy" with E. Mark Curtis, Daniel G. Garrett, Eric Ohrn, and Kevin Roberts

Discussant: Sebastian Siegloch (ZEW)

Thursday September 23rd @ 11am EST

Speaker: Laura Kawano (University of Michigan, Office of Tax Policy Research)

Title: "Picking up the Slack: Spousal Responses to Unemployment Spells" with Sara LaLumia, Shanthi Ramnath, and Michael Stevens

Discussant: Julie Cullen (UCSD)

Thursday September 30th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Dmitri Koustas (University of Chicago)

Title: "New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data" with Andrew Garin and Emilie Jackson

Discussant: Elira Kuka (George Washington University)

Thursday October 7th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Ashley C. Craig (University of Michigan)

Title: "Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation: A Unifying Model" with Joel Slemrod

Discussant: Alex Rees-Jones (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton)

Thursday October 14th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Peter Ganong (University of Chicago)

Title: "Micro and Macro Disincentive Effects of Expanded Unemployment Benefits" with Fiona Greig, Pascal Noel, Daniel M. Sullivan, Joseph Vavra

Discussant: Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University)

Thursday October 21st @ 11am EST

Speaker: Anders Jensen (Harvard University)

Title: "Globalization and Factor Income Taxation" with Pierre Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, Gabriel Zucman

Discussant: Sergey Nigai (University of Colorado Boulder)

Thursday November 4th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Tuomas Kosonen (VATT)

Title: "Taxing the Sweet Tooth - Evidence on the Role of Substitution in Excess Burden" with Sami Jysm and Riikka Savolainen

Discussant: David Frisvold (University of Iowa)

Thursday November 11th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Naomi Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Title: "A first look at the impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity" with Kevin Corinth

Discussant: Matthew Freedman (UC Irvine)

Thursday December 2nd @ 11am EST

Speaker: Marcel Olbert (London Business School)

Title: "Foreign Aid through Domestic Tax Cuts? Evidence from Multinational Firm Presence in Developing Countries" with Rebecca Lester, Jeffrey Hoopes, Daniel Klein

Discussant: Sandra Sequeira (LSE)

Thursday December 9th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M)

Title: "Charitable Giving Responses to Education Budgets" with Hedieh Tajali

Discussant: Daniel Hungerman (University of Notre Dame)

Thursday December 16th @ 11am EST

Speaker: Youssef Benzarti (UCSB)

Title: "Mandating Tax Incidence: Using Price Controls to Better Target the Effect of a Large VAT Cut on the Economy" with Santiago Garriga, Dario Tortarolo

Discussant: Pierre Bachas (World Bank)