NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Tax Policy and the Economy
Jeffrey Brown: Organizer
September 24, 2009
National Press Club
529 14^th Street, NW
Washington, DC
PROGRAM
8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50 am	GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER
	Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
	KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin – Madison and NBER
	ROBERT MOFFITT, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
	Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support
9:55 am	Break
10:10 am	ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER
	SILVIA ARDAGNA, Harvard University
	Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending
	MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER DHAMMIKA DHARMAPALA, University of Illinois MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University and NBER
	Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	MATTHEW SHAPIRO and JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER CLAUDIA SAHM, Federal Reserve Board
	Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebates: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
	BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER
	The Effects of the EITC and Recent Reforms
12:35 pm	Break
12:45 pm	Luncheon
	Luncheon Speaker: AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, Member, Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
2:00 pm	Adjourn