THURSDAY, APRIL 7:
9:30 AM Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM SETH GIERTZ, Congressional Budget Office
Recent Literature on Taxable Income Elasticities
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM CRAIG JOHNSON, US Treasury
The Use of the Portfolio Allocation General Equilibrium Model to Evaluate the
Economic Effects of Reform
11:45 AM SUSAN YANG, Joint Committee on Taxation
Dynamic Scoring with Government Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model
12:15 PM Lunch
1:00 PM WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER
Tax Bases, Tax Rates and the Elasticity of Reported Taxable Income
DISCUSSANT: NADA EISSA, Georgetown University and NBER
2:15 PM CHRISTOPHER HOUSE, University of Michigan
MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER
Temporary Investment Incentives: Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation
DISCUSSANT: AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM JESSE ROTHSTEIN, Princeton University and NBER
Aggregate Labor Supply Effects and Economic Incidence
DISCUSSANT: JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
5:15 PM Adjourn to Harvard Faculty Club
5:30 PM Reception
6:00 PM Dinner
7:15 PM David Bradford's Contributions to Public Economics Over, Please!
NBER Behavioral Responses to Taxation/Public Economics Program, Page 2:
8:30 PM Shuttle Van from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
9:00 PM Shuttle Van from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8:
7:45 AM Shuttle van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:00 AM Shuttle van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM R. GLENN HUBBARD, Columbia University and NBER
Federal Government Debts and Interest Rates
(Joint with Eric Engen)
WILLIAM GALE, Brookings Institution
Budget Deficits, National Saving, and Interest Rates
(Joint with Peter Orszag)
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
BARRY WEINGAST, Stanford University
Equilibrium Federal Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National
Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era
DISCUSSANT: BRIAN KNIGHT, Brown University and NBER
11:45 AM DENNIS EPPLE and HOLGER SIEG, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Profiling in Bargaining Over College Tuitions
(Joint with Richard Romano and Sinan Sarpca)
DISCUSSANT: RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 N Lunch
1:45 PM DON FULLERTON, University of Texas and NBER
The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates
(Joint with Garth Heutel)
DISCUSSANT: HILARY SIGMAN, Rutgers University and NBER
3:00 PM Adjourn
3/30/05