NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Summer Institute 2002
August 1, 2002
Economics of Taxation
Austan Goolsbee, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
Should Taxes Be Based on Lifetime Income?
Discussant: JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM DOUGLAS SHACKELFORD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and NBER
Capital Gains Taxes and Equity Trading: Empirical Evidence
(with JENNIFER BLOUIN and JANA SMITH RAEDY)
Discussant: ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:30 AM ROSEANNE ALTSCHULER, Rutgers University
Follow the Leader? Evidence on European and U.S. Tax Competition
(with TIMOTHY GOODSPEED)
Discussant: JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM GENE AMROMIN, University fo Chicago
Portfolio Allocation Choices in Taxable and Tax-deferred Accounts:
An Empirical Analysis of Tax Efficiency
Discussant: JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER
2:30 PM Pre-conference on Taxation and Savings Project
5:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Dinner for Pre-conference on Taxation and Savings Project
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