Inequality and Efficiency: Models, Data and Policy Analysis

The development of macro models embedding inefficiencies and heterogeneity among agents has opened the door to study optimal policy from a more interesting perspective than ever in the past.

In this context, policy interventions have to deal with the trade off between inequality and possibly constrained efficiency. Not much is known about this, and it suggests a new role for the welfare state.

The BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Inequality and Efficiency: Models, Data and Policy Analysis aims to bring together research in equilibrium models, macro and development policy, education, migration, energy etc. to guide policy.