Tax Policy and the Economy

Robert A. Moffitt, Organizer

September 27, 2018

National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, September 27
8:00 am
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome / Opening Remarks
8:35 am
Alexander W. Blocker, Harvard University
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
Stephen A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sergio Villar Vallenas , Boston University

The True Cost of Social Security
9:15 am
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University and NBER
Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute
Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Brian T. Melzer, Dartmouth College

Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?
9:55 am
Break
10:15 am
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Tax Equivalences and Their Implications
10:55 am
Michelle Hanlon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffrey L. Hoopes, University of North Carolina
Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER

Tax Reform Made Me Do It!
11:35 am
Break
11:55 am
Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER

Independent Taxation, Horizontal Equity, and Return-Free Filing
12:35 pm
Lunch
Lunch Speaker – Vitor Gaspar, Fiscal Affairs Division, International Monetary Fund
1:50 pm
Adjourn