40th Annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
Organized by Damon Jones and Robert A. Moffitt
Supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
September 18, 2025
National Press Club, Murrow Room, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington DC, Zoom

Thursday, September 18

8:15 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:40 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:45 am

Taxing Identity (slides)

Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER

9:20 am

Firm Investment And The User Cost of Capital: New U.S. Corporate Tax Reform Evidence (slides)

Jonathan S. Hartley, Stanford University
Kevin Hassett, Hoover Institution
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER

9:55 am

The Intersection of Place and Need: How Lack of Enrollment Offices Deters Participation in the Safety Net (slides)

Marianne Bitler, University of California, Davis and NBER
Jason B. Cook, University of Utah
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Laura Tiehen, U.S. Department of Agriculture

10:30 am

Break

10:50 am

How Americans Think About Health Care and Insurance (slides)

Beatrice Ferrario, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

11:25 am

Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (slides)

Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
William Gale, The Brookings Institution

12:00 pm

Lessons for Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers from the Great Recession and the COVID Recession (slides)

Karen Dynan, Harvard University and NBER
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Harvard University and NBER

12:35 pm

Reflecting on 40 Years of Tax Policy and the Economy
Lawrence Summers, Harvard University and NBER

12:50 pm

Lunch - Holeman Lounge
Lunch Speaker: Phillip Swagel, Director, Congressional Budget Office
(not available virtually)