Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 14

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, edited by James M. Poterba, Director of the NBER's Program on Public Economics and professor of economics at MIT, will be available from the MIT Press this spring. This series of annual volumes presents recent research on the effects of taxation and government expenditure programs on economic performance. The topics covered in this volume include: the taxation of executive compensation; internet commerce, tax sensitivity, and the generation gap; stock market reaction to capital gains tax changes; estate taxes and the timing of parental giving; the fiscal effects of U.S. immigration; and the consequences of welfare aid to children with working families.

This volume should be accessible to tax practitioners and policymakers as well as to academic economists. It is priced at $40.00 for the clothbound and $20.00 for the paperback edition and may be ordered directly from the MIT Press.