| Date | Presenters | Topic | Papers |
| Feb 18 | Profit shifting | Torslov, Wier and Zucman (2020) “The Missing Profits of Nations” | |
| Feb 25 | Payroll taxes and employer subsidies |
Saez, Schoefer and Seim (2019) “Hysteresis from Employer Subsidies” Related: Saez, Shoefer and Seim (2019) “Payroll Taxes, Firm Behavior, and Rent Sharing: Evidence from a Young Workers’ Tax Cut in Sweden" |
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| Mar 3 | EITC. The earthquake |
Kleven (2019) “The EITC and the Extensive Margin: A Reappraisal” |
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| Mar 10 | State and local firm subsidies |
Slattery (2019) “Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.” Slattery and Zidar (2020) “Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives” |
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| Mar 24 | Behavioral PF | Morrison and Taubinsky (2019) “Rules of Thumb and Attention Elasticities: Evidence from Under- and Overreaction to Taxes” | |
| Mar 31 | Theory (sufficient stats applied to robots and trade) |
Costinot and Werning (2018) “Robots, Trade and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation” |
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| Apr 7 | Combining structural estimation and reduced-form |
Andrews, Gentzkow and Shapiro (2019) “On the Informativeness of Descriptive Statistics for Structural Estimates” Andrews, Gentzkow and Shapiro (2019) “Transparency in Structural Research" |
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| Apr 14 |
Ed Kong |
Health Economics | Einav, Finkelstein, Oostrom, Ostriker and Williams (2019) “Screening and selection: The Case of Mammograms” |
EC2907 Public Reading Group