National Bureau of Economic Research

Working Session on Dynamic Scoring

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

May 25, 2004

NBER 2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Program

 

Monday, May 24

 

 

7:30 p.m.

Reception and Group Dinner (8:00)

 

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

Tuesday, May 25

 

 

8:00 and 8:20

Shuttle van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

 

 

8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 a.m.

Office of Tax Analysis Staff

 

"Micro- and Macro-Dynamic Estimates for Changes in Tax Rates"

 

 

9:45 a.m.

Congressional Budget Office Staff

 

"Microfoundations of the Analysis of the President's (2005) Budget:

 

What We Know and What We Don't"

 

 

10:45 a.m.

BREAK

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Joint Committee on Taxation Staff

 

"Use of Fiscal Reaction Functions in Analyzing the Macroeconomic

 

Effects of Tax Policy"

 

 

12:00 noon

Alex Brill (House Ways and Means Committee)

 

"How the Ways and Means Committee Uses Revenue Forecasts"

 

 

12:30 p.m.

LUNCH

 

 

1:30 p.m.

Daniel Feenberg (NBER) and James Poterba (MIT and NBER)

 

"Avoiding Disappointment in Raising Revenue"

 

 

2:15 p.m.

N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University and Council of Economic Advisors)

 

Matthew Weinzierl (Harvard University)

 

"Dynamic Scoring: Some Lessons from the Neoclassical Growth Model"

 

 

3:00 p.m.

ADJOURN