#  Macro Public Reading Group 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2016 

 

 

 

**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>.

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## Class Materials:

### Schedule

Sort**Date**



**Presenters**



**Paper**



20-Sep



Nathan Hipsman



Sachs, Tsyvinski and Werquin. 2016. “[Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium](http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d20/d2051.pdf)” [**\[Slides\]**](https://www.dropbox.com/s/2lrw48nakcketwy/Hipsman.pdf?dl=0)



27-Sep



May Bunsupha and Elisa Rubbo



Bordalo, Gennaioli and Shleifer. 2016. “[Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles](http://www.nber.org/confer/2016/SI2016/EFBEM/Bordalo_Gennaioli_Shleifer.pdf)”

*and*

Winkler. 2016. [”The Role of Learning for Business Cycles and Asset Prices](http://www.nber.org/confer/2016/SI2016/EFBEM/Winkler.pdf)” [**\[Slides\]**](https://www.dropbox.com/s/h7z2sp9m41u4h3t/May%20and%20Elisa.pdf?dl=0)



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](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ales/abw-taxingatlas.pdf)" [**\[Slides\]**](https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1xlkdsm57jpjyd/Ash%20and%20Hannah%20TaxingAtlas.pdf?dl=0)



11-Oct



No Meeting



18-Oct



Chris Clayton



Boccola and Dovis. 2016. “[Self-fulfilling Debt Crises: A Quantitative Analysis](https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqfga5ctdi2ej1e/bocola_dovis_debtcrises.pdf?dl=0)” [**\[Slides\]**](https://www.dropbox.com/s/4oewwsb6n2vbjdb/Chris.pdf?dl=0)



25-Oct



Gianluca Rinaldi and Tiago Flórido



Davila and Goldstein. 2016.  
“Optimal Deposit Insurance” [**\[Slides\]**](https://www.dropbox.com/s/3a4s8kq8l0ed1pu/Tiago%20and%20Gianluca.pdf?dl=0)



1-Nov



Eben Lazarus and Josh Abel



Midrigan and Phillippon, 2016. “[Household Leverage and the Recession](http://www.virgiliumidrigan.com/uploads/1/3/9/8/13982648/manuscript.pdf)” **[\[Slides\]](https://www.dropbox.com/s/vs7xzaojuy2xad7/Eben%20and%20Josh.pdf?dl=0)**



8-Nov



Sanjay Misra and Matteo Paradisi



Michaillat and Saez. 2015. “[The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Macroeconomic Stabilization"](http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/michaillat-saezAug15publicgood.pdf)



15-Nov



Omar Barbiero and Tzachi Raz



Kehoe, Midrigan and Pastorino. 2016. “[Debt Constraints and Employment](http://www.virgiliumidrigan.com/uploads/1/3/9/8/13982648/kmp_2016k.pdf)”



22-Nov



Andreas Schaab



Bhandari, et al. 2013. “[Taxes, Debts, and Redistributions with Aggregate Shocks](http://scholar.princeton.edu/golosov/publications/taxation-redistribution-and-debt-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](https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsYXdyZW5jZWR3c2NobWlkdHxneDo3MGJlMTE0YjVmNmFkMjE1)”