NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO TAXATION/PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING
James Poterba, Organizer

April 7, 2005

2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 7:

 

 

9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

10:00 a.m.

SETH GIERTZ, Congressional Budget Office

 

 Recent Literature on Taxable Income Elasticities

 

 

10:45 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:00 a.m.

CRAIG JOHNSON, US Treasury

 

The Use of the Portfolio Allocation General Equilibium Model to Evaluate the Economic Effects of Reform

 

 

11:45 a.m.

SUSAN YANG, Joint Committee on Taxation

 

Dynamic Scoring with Government Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

1:00 p.m.

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 p.m.

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 p.m.

Break

 

 

4:00 p.m.

JESSE ROTHSTEIN, Princeton University and NBER

 

Estimation of Tax Incidence from Variation Across the Wage Distribution: The Earned Income Tax Credit

 

Discussant:  JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

5:15 p.m.

Adjourn to Harvard Faculty Club

 

 

5:30 p.m.

Reception and 6:00 Dinner

 

Harvard Faculty Club

 

20 Quincy Street

 

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

 

7;15 p.m.

David Bradford’s Contributions to Public Economics

 

 

8:30 & 9:00 p.m.

Shuttle vans from the Faculty Club return to the Sonesta Hotel

 

 

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