NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Summer Institute 2003

 

July 31, 2003

 

Economics of Taxation

 

Austan Goolsbee, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30:

                 

6:00 PM           Clambake

                        Harvard Faculty Club

                        20 Quincy Street

                        Cambridge, MA

 

THURSDAY, JULY 31:

 

 8:30 AM          Coffee and Pastries 

 

 9:00 AM          JEFFREY LIEBMAN and RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER

                        Schmeduling

 

10:00 AM         Break

 

10:30 AM         AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER

                        JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

                        The Rise of Tax Competition from the Internet: The Case of Cigarette Taxes

 

11:30 AM         CASEY MULLIGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

                        Capital Tax Incidence: Fisherian Impressions from the Time-Series

 

12:30 PM         Lunch

 

 1:30 PM          GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER

                        SARA FISHER ELLISON, MIT

                        Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preferences in Internet Purchasing

 

 2:30 PM          Break

 

 2:45 PM          MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

                        ALEXANDER DYCK, Harvard University

                        LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

                        Corporate Governance and Taxation

 

 3:45 PM          Adjourn