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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Pre-Conference on Fiscal Federalism

 

Julie Cullen and Roger Gordon, Organizers

 

July 22, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Welcoming Remarks and Session I

 

 

 

KATHERINE BAICKER, Harvard University and NBER

 

MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University and NBER

 

Fiscal Federalism in the United States

 

 

 

DAVID FIGLIO, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Demographic Shifts

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

10:50 am

Session II

 

 

 

ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

Growing Conflicts of Interest

 

 

 

HILARY HOYNES, UC, Davis and NBER

 

ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Insurance Benefits from Progressive Taxes and Transfers

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:10 pm

Session III

 

 

 

THERESE MCGUIRE, Northwestern University

 

NATHAN ANDERSON, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Do States Practice Benefit Taxation?

 

 

 

JULIE CULLEN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

ROGER GORDON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Impact of U.S. State and Local Taxes and Expenditures on Wage Rates

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Session IV and General Discussion

 

 

 

WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER

 

Taxes on Firms

 

 

 

RAJASHRI CHAKRABARTI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

JOYDEEP ROY, Georgetown University

 

Effects of Constraints on Tiebout Competition:  Evidence from some School Finance Reforms in the U.S.

 

 

 

PATRICK BAYER, Duke University and NBER

 

Decoupling of Residential and Schooling Choices

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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