Public Economics Program Meeting (Program and Working Group Meetings‪)‬

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 3 and 4. NBER Research Associates Jeffrey R. Brown and Scott Weisbenner, both of the University of Illinois, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER; Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER; and Paul Schrimpf, MIT, "The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market" (NBER Working Paper No. 13228)