NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO TAXATION/PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

James Poterba, Organizer

April 7, 2005

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 7:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM SETH GIERTZ, Congressional Budget Office

Recent Literature on Taxable Income Elasticities

10:00 AM WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER

Tax Bases, Tax Rates, and the Elasticity of Reported Taxable Income

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM CRAIG JOHNSON, US Treasury

The Use of the Portfolio Allocation General Equilibium Model to Evaluate

the Economic Effects of Reform

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM JESSE ROTHSTEIN, Princeton University

Estimation of Tax Incidence from Variation Across the Wage Distribution:

The Earned Income Tax Credit

2:30 PM CHRISTOPHER HOUSE, University of Michigan

MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER

Temporary Investment Incentives:

Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation

3:30 PM Adjourn

4:00 PM The NBER Public Economics group will gather to remember David Bradford and his

contributions to the field of Public Economics. Participants in the Behavioral Responses

to Taxation Meeting are welcome to stay for this gathering and the dinner that will follow it.

6:15 PM Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

8:30 PM Shuttle Van from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

9:00 PM Shuttle Van from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

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