Tax Policy and the Economy
Organized by Robert A. Moffitt
Supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
September 27, 2018
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Thursday, September 27

8:00 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:35 am

The True Cost of Social Security

Alexander W. Blocker, Harvard University
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
Stephen A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sergio Villar Vallenas , Boston University

9:15 am

Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?

Scott R. Baker, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute
Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Brian T. Melzer, Dartmouth College

9:55 am

Break

10:15 am

Tax Equivalences and Their Implications

Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

10:55 am

Tax Reform Made Me Do It!

Michelle Hanlon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffrey L. Hoopes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER

11:35 am

Break

11:55 am

Independent Taxation, Horizontal Equity, and Return-Free Filing

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER

12:35 pm

Lunch

Lunch Speaker – Vitor Gaspar, Fiscal Affairs Division, International Monetary Fund

1:50 pm

Adjourn