THURSDAY, APRIL 4:

6:00 PM Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

Dinner Speaker: MICHAEL BOSKIN, Stanford University and NBER

Do We Really Have a National Debt? Deferred Taxes in the Theory and Practice of Public Finance

FRIDAY, APRIL 5:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van From the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Massachusetts Ave.

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM WILLIAM M. GENTRY, Columbia University and NBER

Frictions and Tax-Motivated Hedging: An Empirical Exploration

of Publicly-Traded Exchangeable Debt

Discussant: MIHIR A. DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

9:40 AM SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER

Loans, Liquidity, and the Market for Higher Education

Discussant: CHARLES T. CLOTFELTER, Duke University and NBER

10:50 AM Break

11:05 AM ANTONIO RANGEL, Stanford University and NBER

Addiction, Cognition, and the Visceral Brain

(Joint with B. Douglas Bernheim)

Discussant: BOTOND KOSZEGI, UC, Berkeley

12:15 PM Lunch

1:00 PM MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

Does Contracting Out Improve the Efficiency of Government Programs?

Evidence from Medicaid HMOs

Discussant: KATHERINE BAICKER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Over, Please!

Public Economics Program Page 2:

Friday, April 5, 2002, Continued:

2:10 PM ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER

Institutional Rules for Federations

(Joint with Ignazio Angeloni and Federico Etro)

Discussant: ROGER H. GORDON, UC, San Diego and NBER

3:20 PM Break

3:35 PM JAMES M. POTERBA, MIT and NBER

Asset Allocation and Asset Location Decisions: Evidence from the

Survey of Consumer Finances

(Joint with Daniel Bergstresser)

Discussant: ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER

4:45 PM Adjourn

3/26/02