Macro Public Reading Group
A reading group in Macro and Public Economics for Harvard graduate students. Organized by Emmanuel Farhi, Mark Gertler, and Stefanie Stantcheva.
For group logistics and joining the mailing list, please contact the student organizer Tzachi Raz at iraz@g.harvard.edu.
Class Materials:
Schedule
Date | Presenters | Paper |
20-Sep | Nathan Hipsman | Sachs, Tsyvinski and Werquin. 2016. “Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium” [Slides] |
27-Sep | May Bunsupha and Elisa Rubbo | Bordalo, Gennaioli and Shleifer. 2016. “Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles” and Winkler. 2016. ”The Role of Learning for Business Cycles and Asset Prices” [Slides] |
4-Oct | Ashley Craig and Hannah Shaffer | Ales, Bellofatto and Wang. 2016. “Taxing Atlas: Executive Compensation, Firm Size and Their Impact on Optimal Top Income Tax Rates" [Slides] |
11-Oct | No Meeting | |
18-Oct | Chris Clayton | Boccola and Dovis. 2016. “Self-fulfilling Debt Crises: A Quantitative Analysis” [Slides] |
25-Oct | Gianluca Rinaldi and Tiago Flórido | Davila and Goldstein. 2016. |
1-Nov | Eben Lazarus and Josh Abel | Midrigan and Phillippon, 2016. “Household Leverage and the Recession” [Slides] |
8-Nov | Sanjay Misra and Matteo Paradisi | Michaillat and Saez. 2015. “The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Macroeconomic Stabilization" |
15-Nov | Omar Barbiero and Tzachi Raz | Kehoe, Midrigan and Pastorino. 2016. “Debt Constraints and Employment” |
22-Nov | Andreas Schaab | Bhandari, et al. 2013. “Taxes, Debts, and Redistributions with Aggregate Shocks” |
29-Nov | Argyris Tsiaras | Berger , Dew-Becker, Milbrandt, Schmidt and Takahashi. 2016. “Layoff Risk, the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles and Monetary Policy” |