Forthcoming article by Jonathan Heathcote Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni L Violante “How Should Tax Progressivity Respond to Rising Income Inequality?” EEA Oxford Economics doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j…

Special Issue in the Journal of Public Economics : “New Perspectives on Consumption Measures” ed. Camille Landais (camille landais ) and Johannes Spinnewijn Papers from Dan Silverman , Greg Kaplan , Gianluca Violante , Jonathan Heathcote , and more… sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

An important initiative to document the development of inequality using high-quality administrative data

Last talk of 14th version of NorMac in tropical Finland. Great papers and great to interact with so many talented young macro people! Thanks for organising Niku Määttänen and Johanna Wallenius, and see you all next year! Kurt MIT-shock-man Kjetil Storesletten Gauti Eggertsson 🇺🇦

Happening TODAY 🗓️ Fatih Guvenen, Luigi Pistaferri, and Gianluca Violante are all joining us at 2 p.m. EST to give an introduction to accessing and using statistics from their new open-access, cross-country database. Register to get on the GRID: web.cvent.com/event/88047bd0…

Today is the day! We are delighted to launch our new podcast, Heller-Hurwicz Office Hours. Each episode will feature host Chris Farrell in conversation with Minnesota economists, exploring economic topics that impact our daily lives. Listen at cla.umn.edu/heller-hurwicz…

Some very new and interesting podcasts are already here and others are forthcoming …

Hey #Econtwitter, UMN Econ Department now has a podcast featuring conversations on a wide ranging research topics with Minnesota economists! Check it out!

Today Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute Economics Institute starts podcast series. Every Wednesday Chris Farrell will discuss economics with a University of Minnesota economist. Two episodes in first installment: V. V. Chari discusses role of economist in society and Anusha Nash discusses US minimum wage.

Thrilled that our podcast series has been launched!

And that's a WRAP on TimFest! Thank you to all who joined us this weekend, and for the many more who donated to the Tim Kehoe Fellowship! Here's to the past, present, and future scholarship inspired and supported by Tim Kehoe 🇺🇦🥳

What an incredible weekend at University of Minnesota! We are finishing the academic stuff, but, this afternoon, we will have an Asado Uruguayo/Argentino at Boom Island Park. And the weather is perfect, the nicest day of the spring so far.

4th Bristol Macro Workshop University of Bristol | School of Economics ✅🥳Thank you to all of our amazing speakers afogli001 Kjetil Storesletten Kunal Sangani Serdar Birinci Sergio Feijoo Eugenia González-Aguado Cezar Santos Alireza Sepahsalari and many more who are not on Twitter :)

Tim ended his dinner speech with a fantastic line: "I dedicated my life to economics at University of Minnesota. And I feel good about it"

Congratulations to my longtime friend & co-author Fatih Karahan 🎉 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…