NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Tax Policy and the Economy

Jeffrey Brown and James Poterba, Organizers

September 25, 2008

National Press Club

529 14^th Street, NW

Washington, DC

PROGRAM

8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	LEORA FRIEDBERG, University of Virginia and NBER
	ANTHONY WEBB, Boston College
	New Evidence on the Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test
	JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER
	JULIA CORONADO, Barclays Global Investors
	DON FULLERTON, University of Illinois and NBER
	Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	ROSANNE ALTSHULER, Rutgers University
	ALAN AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	MICHAEL COOPER, U.S. Department of Treasury
	MATTHEW KNITTEL, U.S. Department of Treasury
	Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses
	JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER
	LAWRENCE SUMMERS, Harvard University and NBER
	How Globalization Affects Tax Design
11:40 am	Break
12:00 pm	ABIGAIL PAYNE, McMaster University
	Empirical Analysis of Crowd-Out
12:35 pm	Break
12:45 pm	Luncheon
	Speaker: DONALD MARRON, Council of Economic Advisers
2:00 pm	Adjourn