Highlight

The focal point of the workshop was an intellectual exchange that took place between public finance economists and econometricians, particularly in relation to Whitney Newey’s provocatively titled paper (“The bunching estimator cannot identify the taxable income elasticity,” circulated as a working paper by NBER and CESifo).

Here is a link to discussion of that paper by Emmanuel Saez, the seminal contributor of the bunching estimator.

Here is a link to Henrik Kleven’s keynote speech (“Reflections on the bunching approach in Economics”).

Bertanha, McCallum, and Seegert build on Newey’s paper. Here is their presentation slide and a link to their working paper. Michael Jansson discussed their paper, and here is the link to his slide.