NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Economics of Taxation

 

James Poterba, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, University Suite BC, Ground Floor

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 21, 2008

 

PROGRAM

      

MONDAY, JULY 21

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

GERALD AUTEN, Department of the Treasury

 

ROBERT CARROLL, American University

 

Taxes and Dividends: Evidence from the Lower Dividend Taxes Enacted in 2003

 

 

 2:00 pm

MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

 

LI JIN, Harvard University

 

Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

KEVIN MUMFORD, Purdue University

 

Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children

 

 

 4:30 pm

JUSTIN MARION, UC-Santa Cruz

 

ERICH MUEHLEGGER, Harvard University

 

Tax Evasion and Commodity Tax Incidence: Theory and Evidence from Diesel Fuel Sales

 

 

  5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/22/08