NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

Economics of Taxation

Austan Goolsbee, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Somerset Room

Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 27, 2006

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 27:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	CLEMENS SIALM, University of Michigan and NBER
	Investment Taxes and Equity Returns
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	RAJ CHETTY and EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
	Taxes and Entrepreneurial Ventures
12:30 pm	Lunch- Ballroom B
1:45 pm	MIKHAIL GOLOSOV, MIT and NBER
	ALEH TSYVINSKI, Harvard University and NBER
	IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
	New Dynamic Public Finance: A User’s Guide
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
	A Tax-Based Estimate of the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6/1/06