NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

Economics of Taxation

V. V. Chari and Emmanuel Saez, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 5, 2004

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5:
8:30 a.m.	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 a.m.	NARAYANA KOCHERLAKOTA, Stanford University and NBER
	Zero Expected Wealth Taxes:
	A Mirrlees Approach to Dynamic Optimal Taxation
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	MARCO BATTAGLINI, Princeton University
	STEPHEN COATE, Yale University and NBER
	Pareto Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilities
11:15 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.	STEFANIA ALBANESI, Duke University
	CHRIS SLEET, University of Iowa
	Dynamic Optimal Taxation with Private Information
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
	Commitment versus Flexibility
2:30 p.m.	Break
2:45 p.m.	RAJ CHETTY and EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC Berkeley and NBER
	Do Dividend Payments Respond to Taxes:
	Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut
3:45 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m.	CASEY MULLIGAN, University of Chicago and NBER
	What do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say about the
	Capital Income Tax Burden?
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn