Public economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski from Yale University - Wojciech Kopczuk from Columbia University - Raj Chetty from Harvard University - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 8-9, 2010. NBER Research Associates Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Wojciech Kopczuk of Columbia University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER, and Maxim Troshkin, University of Minnesota, "Optimal Dynamic Taxes"

* Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER, and Nathan Schiff, University of British Columbia, "Spatial Competition and Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries"

* Roger H. Gordon and Julie Berry Cullen, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "Income Redistribution in a Federal System of Governments"

* James Sallee, University of Chicago, and Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER, "Car Notches" Michael Anderson, University of California, Berkeley; Carlos Dobkin, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER; and Tal Gross, University of Miami, "The Effect of Health...