NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Tax Policy and the Economy

James Poterba, Organizer

September 27, 2007

National Press Club

Murrow Room

529 14^th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

PROGRAM

8:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	STEPHEN PARENTE, University of Minnesota
	Do HSA Choices Interact with Retirement Savings Decisions?
	SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER
	JUDITH SCOTT-CLAYTON, Harvard University
	Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Complexity in Student Aid
9:45 am	Break
10:15 am	GENE AMROMIN, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	Precautionary Savings Motives and the Tax Efficiency of Household Portfolios: An Empirical Analysis
	JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER
	STEVEN VENTI, Dartmouth College and NBER
	DAVID WISE, Harvard University and NBER
	New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(k) Assets
11:30 am	Break
11:45 am	CHARLES MCLURE, Stanford University and NBER
	Harmonizing Corporate Income Taxes in the European Community: Rationale and Implications
12:30 pm	Lunch – Holeman Lounge
	Luncheon Speaker:
	SIMON JOHNSON, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
2:00 pm	Adjourn
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