NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
Organized by Damon Jones
Supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
September 17, 2026
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington DC. Zoom

Thursday, September 17

8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:25 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:30 am

Is Taxing the Externality Enough?

Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER
Nirupama L. Rao, University of Michigan

9:05 am

When Policy Shapes Perception: The 2021 Child Tax Credit and Consumer Sentiment

Jacob Bastian, Rutgers University and NBER
Melody Harvey, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussant:
TBA

9:45 am

Democratizing Venture Capital: Tax Incentives and the Geographic Expansion of Startup Investing

Murillo Campello, University of Florida and NBER
Guilherme Junqueira, University of Florida

Discussant:
TBA

10:25 am

Break

10:45 am

Opportunity Zones and Private Investment: Evidence from U.S. Commercial Real Estate

Kevin Corinth, American Enterprise Institute
Naomi E. Feldman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

11:20 am

Taxing California Billionaires

Jasper Boll, Paris School of Economics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, Paris School of Economics and NBER

11:50 am

The Net Present Value of the California Billionaire Tax Act

Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER
Benjamin Jaros, Stanford University

12:30 pm

Lunch - Holeman Lounge
Keynote Speaker: Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
"Public Finance in the Age of AI"
(not available virtually)

1:30 pm

Adjourn