Program
Bunching Estimators and their Applications
March 24 - 25, 2018
Room 3106, RBC Building 3
Roger Gordon and Kazuki Onji, Organizers
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, MARCH 24:
8:00 Welcome
KAZUKI ONJI, Osaka University
8:15 AM EMMANUEL SAEZ, University of California at Berkeley
ESTIMATION METHODS FOR BUNCHING ESTIMATORS
Chair: ROGER GORDON, University of California at San Diego
8:45 AM MATIAS CATTANEO, University of Michigan
MICHAEL JANSSON, University of California at Berkeley
XINWEI MA, University of Michigan
JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan
Bunching Designs: Estimation and Inference
Discussant: Whitney Newey, MIT
9:45 AM Coffee break
10:00 AM BENJAMIN MARX, University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana
Dynamic Bunching Estimation with Panel Data
Discussant: Julie Cullen, University of California at San Diego
11:00 AM SÖREN BLOMQUIST, Uppsala University
WHITNEY NEWEY, MIT
The Bunching Estimator Cannot Identify the Taxable Income Elasticity
Discussant: Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley
12:00 PM Lunch
INFERRED OPTIMIZATION FRICTIONS
Chair: JULIE CULLEN, University of California at San Diego
1:15 PM ALEXANDER GELBER, University of California at Berkeley
DAMON JONES, University of Chicago
DANIEL SACKS, Indiana University
Estimating Earnings Adjustment Frictions: Method and Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test
Discussant: Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan
2:15 PM ANDREW McCALLUM, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
NATHAN SEEGERT, University of Utah
MARINHO BERTANHA, University of Notre Dame
Better Bunching, Nicer Notching
Discussant: Michael Jansson, University of California at Berkeley
3:15 PM Coffee break
BUNCHING VS. DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES ESTIMATION
Chair: ITZIK FADLON, University of California at San Diego
3:30 PM DAIXIN HE, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
LANGCHUAN PENG, Nanjing Audit University
XIAXIN WANG, University of California at San Diego
Understanding the Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Tale of Two Approaches
Discussant: Andreas Peichl, ifo Munich, University of Munich
4:30 PM MIGUEL ALMUNIA, University of Warwick
MICHAEL BEST, Columbia University
Bunching vs. Diff-in-Diff
Discussant: Alexander Gelber, University of California at Berkeley
5:30 PM Adjourn
6:30 PM Dinner
SUNDAY, MARCH 25
APPLICATIONS OF BUNCHING ESTIMATORS
Chair: MICHELLE WHITE, University of California at San Diego
8:00 AM ZHAO CHEN, Fudan University
ZHIKUO LIU, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
JUAN CARLOS SUÁREZ SERRATO, Duke University
DANIEL YI XU, Duke University
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China
Discussant: Henrik Kleven, Princeton University
9:00 AM KAZUKI ONJI, Osaka University
MASANORI ORIHARA, University of Tsukuba
Tastes for Control: Estimates from Shareholder Bunching
Discussant: Gordon Dahl, University of California at San Diego
10:00 AM ZAREH ASATRYAN, ZEW Mannheim
ANDREAS PEICHL, ifo Munich, University of Munich
THOMAS SCHWAB, University of Mannheim, WU Vienna
JOHANNES VOGET, University of Mannheim
Inverse December Fever
Discussant: Roger Gordon, University of California at San Diego
11:00 AM Coffee break
WHERE DO WE STAND?
Chair: ELI BERMAN, University of California at San Diego
11:15 AM HENRIK KLEVEN, Princeton University
Reflections on the Bunching Approach in Economics
12:00 PM Lunch
APPLICATIONS OF BUNCHING ESTIMATORS, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Chair: GORDON DAHL, University of California at San Diego
1:15 PM PIERRE BACHAS, World Bank
MAURICIO SOTO, Banco Central de Costa Rica
Not(ch) Your Average Tax System: Corporate Taxation under Weak Enforcement
Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University
2:15 PM ZAREH ASATRYAN, ZEW Mannheim
ANDREAS PEICHL, ifo Munich, University of Munich
Responses of Firms to Tax, Administrative and Accounting Rules: Evidence from Armenia
Discussant: Kazuki Onji, Osaka University
3:15 PM Adjourn