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, Northwestern University 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
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