NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Economics of Taxation

 

Austan Goolsbee, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 28, 2005

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

JOSHUA RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER

 

How Elastic is the Corporate Income Tax Base?

 

 

10:00 am

 Break

 

 

10:15 am

LI JIN, Harvard University

 

SP KOTHARI, MIT

 

Determinants of Management Ownership of Unrestricted Equity: Overconfidence versus Tax Explanations

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER

 

Bequest and Tax Planning: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:45 pm

MARTIN LJUNGE, University of Chicago

 

Returns to Work and Showing Up on the Job

 

 

 2:45 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

 

ESTELLE DAUCHY and CLAUDIA MARTINEZ, University of Michigan

 

Corporate Tax Avoidance and the Effectiveness of Investment Tax Incentives

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6/8/05