NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO TAXATION/PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING



James Poterba, Organizer



April 7-8, 2005



NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



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

The Mid-1990s EITC Expansion:

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