NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Summer Institute 2002

August 1, 2002

Economics of Taxation

Austan Goolsbee, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1:

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER

Should Taxes Be Based on Lifetime Income?

Discussant: JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM DOUGLAS SHACKELFORD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and NBER

Capital Gains Taxes and Equity Trading: Empirical Evidence

(with JENNIFER BLOUIN and JANA SMITH RAEDY)

Discussant: ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER

11:30 AM ROSEANNE ALTSCHULER, Rutgers University

Follow the Leader? Evidence on European and U.S. Tax Competition

(with TIMOTHY GOODSPEED)

Discussant: JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM GENE AMROMIN, University fo Chicago

Portfolio Allocation Choices in Taxable and Tax-deferred Accounts:

An Empirical Analysis of Tax Efficiency

Discussant: JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

2:30 PM Pre-conference on Taxation and Savings Project

5:30 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Dinner for Pre-conference on Taxation and Savings Project

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