About the Utah Public Finance Invitational Conference 2024
This conference brings together a diverse group of researchers working on public policy related questions. We believe there is no better way to benefit from knowledge flows than putting smart people from different fields together in the mountains. In this collaborative environment we hope to elevate public policy research.
Where:
Child Hall
Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
When:
Wednesday, June 12 —
Friday, June 14, 2024
Contact Us:
Scientific Program Chair: nathan.seegert@utah.edu
Register for UPFIN 2024 June 12-14 Early registration April 15, 2024.
Early registration for the conference ends on April 15, 2024 (tax day, of course). Early registration is $300. Late registration will stay open until spots are filled. Accommodations can be made at Little America Hotel, Salt Lake City, where we have a conference rate at a base (before taxes and fees) of $140 a night.
Scientific committee
Claudio Agostini, Nathan Anderson, Katarzyna Bilicka, Jennifer Blouin, Sebastien Bradley, David Cashin, Jeff Clemens, Adam Cole, Phil Dean, Lisa De Simone, Naomi Feldman, Maclean Gaulin, Josh Gottlieb, Enda Hargaden, Erin Henry, James Hines, Jeffrey Hoopes, Laura Kawano, Wojciech Kopczuk, Sara Lalumia, Byron Lutz, Jacob Mortenson, Shanthi Ramnath, Nirupama Rao, Daniel Schaffa, Nathan Seegert, Tejaswi Velayudhan, and Caroline Weber.
Sponsored by
The Ivory-boyer Real Estate Center, Taxes For The Masses, Tax Chats, ForeSITE (Forecasting and Surveillance of Infectious Threats and Epidemics), the University of Utah Department of Economics, the Matheson Center for Health Care Studies and other partners.
Conference Schedule
Here is our preliminary conference schedule
Events take place across various venues around Salt Lake City.
1:30 p.m.
Registration
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
2:30 p.m.
Policy round table 1: Efficient Preparation in health care and public health for the next pandemic: Coordination and Distributional Issues
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
Panelists:
Megan Vanneman, University of Utah School of Medicine
Fernando Wilson, Director of the Matheson Center for Health Care Studies, Professor of the Economics Department and Population and Health Sciences in the Division of Health System Innovation and Research.
Laura Summers, Director of Industry Research Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
4:00 p.m.
Policy round table 2: Efficient Preparation in health care and public health for the next pandemic: Data issues
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
Presentation Jaewhan Kim, Associate Director, School of Medicine-Operations, University of Utah.
4:45 p.m.
Policy round table 3: New data for new challenges
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
Panelists:
Joanne Hsu, Director of the Surveys of Consumers, University of Michigan.
Erin Henry, Professor of Accounting, University of Arkansas
Gabriel Ehrlich, Director of Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, University of Michigan.
6:30 p.m.
Reception
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
Events take place across various venues around Salt Lake City.
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
7:50 a.m.
Welcome from Nathan Seegert
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
8:00 a.m.
Exhilarating innovations in taxation
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
What do states do with fiscal windfalls evidence from the pandemic
Presenter: Jeffrey Clemens, Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego, and Hoover Institute Stanford
Capital gains taxes and acquisition-motivated IPOs
Presenter: Ben Yost, Professor of Accounting Boston College
Banks and Tax-Exempt Debt Arbitrage
Presenter: James Hines Jr., Professor of Law and Economics University of Michigan
10:15 a.m.
Bus to Park City
Where: Lunch on your own in Park City (directions).
4:30 p.m.
Green taxes
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
Picking up the pace: nudges for residential climate-proofing
Presenter: Cameron LaPoint, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management
The equilibrium effect of environmental taxes on prices and product variety in the automobile market
Presenter: Naomi Feldman, Professor of Economics, Hebrew University and Bank of Israel
6:00 p.m.
Dinner
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), East Plaza
Events take place across various venues around Salt Lake City.
8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
9:00 a.m.
The effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)
Where: Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB), Child Hall (7th Floor)
The efficiency-equity tradeoff of the corporate income tax: evidence from TCJA
Presenter: Jacob Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation
The real and financial effects of internal liquidity: Evidence from the TCJA
Presenter: James Albertus, Carnegie Mellon
11:30 a.m.
Walk to the foothills and Red Butte Gardens
Pick-up box lunch picnic
2:30 p.m.
Workshop sessions
Where: Ken Garff Scholarship Club
4:00 p.m.
Panel: Public finance and public health building a better future
Where: Ken Garff Scholarship Club
Panelists:
Nathan Talley, Chief Financial Officer for the Utah System of Higher Education
Lindsay Keegan, Professor Internal Medicine University of Utah
5:15 p.m.
Panel: Policy during times of crisis
Where: Ken Garff Scholarship Club
6:30 p.m. Fireside policy talk
Where: Ken Garff Scholarship Club
7:30 p.m.
Reception
8:00 p.m.
Dinner
Where: Ken Garff Scholarship Club
Venues
The Utah Public Finance Invitational is going to take place in and around Salt Lake City, UT.
Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building
Reception, victual consumption, and presentations will be conducted in Child Hall on the 7th floor.
Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
Red Butte Garden is one of the largest botanical gardens in the Intermountain West and together with the University of Utah, is the State Arboretum of Utah. The Garden consists of over 21 acres of developed gardens and five miles of hiking trails winding through an extensive Natural Area.
Park City
Park City lies east of Salt Lake City in the western state of Utah. Framed by the craggy Wasatch Range, it’s bordered by the Deer Valley Resort and the huge Park City Mountain Resort, both known for their ski slopes. Utah Olympic Park, to the north, hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics and is now predominantly a training facility. In town, Main Street is lined with buildings built during a 19th-century silver mining boom.
