Organizers: Jaromir Nosal, Robert Ulbricht (BC)

Program:

October 11, 2024 

Boston University  

BU Center for Computing and Data Science, Room 1646 (16th Floor) 

665 Commonwealth Ave 

8:30am: Breakfast  

9:00am - 9:50am: “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Competition: the Brazilian “Fiscal War” and Public Goods Under-provision,” Plinio Bicalho (Boston University) 

9:50am – 10:00am: Break and Discussion Time 

10:00am – 10:50am: "Financial and Total Wealth Inequality with Declining Interest Rates," Matteo Leombroni (Boston College) 

10:50am – 11:00am: Break and Discussion Time 

11:00am – 11:50am: “(In)formal Growth: Wage Dynamics in Developing Economies,” Santiago Franco (Boston University) 

12:00pm – 12:00pm: Lunch (CDS Building, 665 Commonwealth Ave) 

1:00pm – 1:50pm: "Financial Constraints and Price Rigidities," Yang Liu (Boston College) 

1:50pm – 2:00pm: Break and Discussion Time 

2:00pm – 2:50pm: “Deforestation and the Demographic Transition: Lessons from Brazil,” Ariel Akerman (Boston University) 

3:00pm: Adjourn