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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Tax Policy and the Economy

 

Robert Moffitt, Organizer

 

September 22, 2016

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC

 

PROGRAM

 

8:00 am

Registration and Breakfast

 

8:30 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

 

 

8:35 am

Alan Auerbach, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Darryl Koehler, The Fiscal Analysis Center
Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
Manni Yu, Boston University
Is Uncle Sam Inducing the Elderly to Retire?

 

 

9:15 am

Gizem Kosar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Trends in Cumulative Marginal Tax Rates Facing Low-Income Families,
1997-2007

 

9:55 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Taxing the Rich More: Preliminary Evidence from the 2013

Tax Increase

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER
A Distribution-Neutral Perspective on Tax Expenditure Limitations

 

 

11:55 am

Conor Clarke, Yale University
Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University and NBER
Business Income and Business Taxation in the United States since the 1950s

 

 

12:35 pm

Lunch

 

Lunch Speaker – Jason Furman, Chair,Council of Economic Advisers
 

1:50 pm

Adjourn