NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR FISCAL STUDIES
Trans-Atlantic
Public Economics Seminar
Conference
on Income Taxation
May 15 -
17, 2002
Richard
Blundell and Roger Gordon, Organizers
Institute
for Fiscal Studies
7
Ridgmount Street
London
WEDNESDAY,
MAY 15
8:00 AM Continental
Breakfast
CHAIR: RICHARD
BLUNDELL, Institute for Fiscal Studies
9:00 AM HELMUTH CREMER, University of
Toulouse
J-M LOZACHMEUR and PIERRE PESTIEAU, Liege University
Social Security, Retirement age and
Optimal Income Taxation
Discussants: ANTONIO RANGEL,
Stanford University
ORAZIO ATTANASIO, University of College
London
10:15 Coffee
Break
10:45 AM
RAVI KANBUR, Cornell University
MATTI TUOMALA, Tampere University
Understanding the Evolution of Inequality During Transition: The Optimal Income Taxation Framework
Discussants: HANS-WERNER SINN, University Muenchen
THOMAS KNIESNER, Syracuse University
12:00 PM Lunch
CHAIR:
JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER
2:00 PM AUSTAN
GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
Discussants: BILL GENTRY, Columbia University and NBER
ROGER GORDON, US, San Diego and NBER
3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:45 PM IAN
PRESTON, University of College London
LAURA
BLOW, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Deadweight
Loss and Taxation of Earned Income: Evidence from Tax Records of the UK Self Employed
Discussants:
MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and
NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
7:30 PM Group
Dinner
THURSDAY, MAY 16
8:00 AM Continental
Breakfast
CHAIR: MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and
NBER
9:00 AM BILL GENTRY and GLENN HUBBARD,
Columbia University and NBER
Discussants:
BERTIL HOLMLUND, Uppsala University
JIM POTERBA, MIT and NBER
10:15 AM LANS BOVENBERG AND J. BOONE, Tilburg
University
The Optimal taxation of unskilled labor with job search and social assistance
Discussants:
BRUCE MEYER, Northwestern University and NBER
LI GAN, University of Texas, Austin
11:30 AM Coffee Break
12:00 PM BERTIL HOLMLUND and ANN-SOFIE KOLM,
Uppsala University
PER
ENGSTROM, Uppsala University
Optimal Taxation in Search Equilibrium
with Home Production
Discussants: HELMUTH CREMER, University of Toulouse
IAN
WALKER, University of Warwick
1:15 PM Adjourn and Tour of Area
FRIDAY, MAY 17
8:00 AM Continental
Breakfast
CHAIR:
TIM BESLEY, London School of Economics
9:00 AM EMMANUEL
SAEZ, Harvard University and NBER
Do
Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?
Discussants:
COSTAS MEGHIR and IAN PRESTON, University College London
10:15 AM BRUCE MEYER and BRADLEY HEIM,
Northwestern University
Work
Costs and Nonconvexities in Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Parameters
Discussants:
RICHARD BLUNDELL, University College London
SOREN BLOMQUIST, Uppsala University
11:30 AM Coffee Break
12:00 PM DON
FULLERTON AND LI GAN, University of Texas, Austin
Discussants:
JERRY HAUSMAN, MIT
EMMANUEL SAEZ, Harvard University and NBER
1:15 PM Lunch
AFTERNOON
SESSION: Provisions to Improve
Efficiency
CHAIR: ROGER GORDON, US, San Diego and NBER
2:45 PM MIKE BREWER, Institute for Fiscal
Studies
ALAN DUNCAN, University of Nottingham and IFS
MARIA JOSE SUAREZ, University of Oviedo
Did the Working
Families Tax Credit Work? Analysing Programme Participation
Discussants: LANS BOVENBERG, Tilburg University
RAVI KAMBUR, Cornell University
4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:30 PM JAMES ZILIAK, University of Oregon
THOMAS KNIESNER, Center for Policy Research,
Syracuse University
DOUG HOLTZ-EAKIN, Syracuse University
The
Effect of Income Taxation on Consumption and Labor Supply: New
Implications for the Optimal Income Tax
Discussants: TIM BESLEY, London School of Economics
TOM
MaCURDY, Stanford University
5:45 PM Adjourn