Tax Policy Colloquium and Seminar
Professors Daniel Shaviro and Alan Auerbach
Spring 2009
Tax Policy (L11.3542.001) - 4 credits
Thursday, 10:00-11:50 a.m. Furman Hall, Room 110
Colloquium, 4:00-5:50 p.m.,
Furman Hall, Room 120
The Colloquium offers students the opportunity to pursue tax policy and theory, along with related issues of public economics, at an advanced level. The primary focus of the Colloquium will be papers and works in progress by scholars from around the country, including NYU faculty. Students attend the afternoon Colloquium and participate in its discussions. In addition, each week the morning seminar component examines the paper scheduled for presentation at the Colloquium, including background issues that may help in understanding it. (The first two weeks, however, are devoted instead to providing a background in key tax policy concepts.) Students must prepare a short paper in 5 of the 14 weeks focusing on the upcoming paper, submit to the conveners of the Colloquium a proposed question for the author in each of the last 12 weeks, and make a short in-class presentation on one of the papers.
Daniel Shaviro
Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
tel: 212-998-6187
fax: 212-995-4341
cell: 917-544-4719
shavirod@juris.law.nyu.edu
http://danshaviro.blogspot.com/
Spring 2009 Schedule of Presenters
January 15
Daniel Shaviro, New York University Law School.
“The Long-Term Fiscal Gap: Is the Main Problem Generational Inequity?” PDF
January 22
Alan Auerbach, Berkeley Economics Department and NYU Law School
“Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses.” PDF
January 29
Edward Kleinbard, Joint Committee on Taxation
“A Reconsideration of Tax Expenditure Analysis.” PDF
February 5
Amy Finkelstein, MIT Economics Department
"EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates." PDF
Appendix PDF
February 12
Dorothy Brown, Emory Law School
"Shades of the American Dream." PDF
February 19
Yoram Margalioth, Tel Aviv University Law School and NYU Law School
"Employing Statistical Stigma as a Welfare Ordeal." PDF
February 26
Leslie McCall, Northwestern University Sociology Department
"Americans' Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality." PDF
March 5
Michael Doran, University of Virginia Law School
"Managers, Shareholders, and the Corporate Double Tax." PDF
March 12
David Duff, University of Toronto Law School
"Tax Fairness and the Tax Mix" PDF
March 26
Emmanuel Saez, Berkeley Economics Department
“Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-Up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving.” PDF
April 2
Lily Batchelder, NYU Law School
"Savings Incentives with Insurance Objectives: A Bankrupt Approach?" PDF
April 9
Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School and NYU Law School
"Investor Taxation in Open Economies." PDF
April 16
Mitchell Kane, NYU Law School
"Taxation and Global Cap and Trade" PDF
April 23
Thomas Brennan, Northwestern Law School
"Certainty and Uncertainty in the Taxation of Risky Returns" PDF
If you have any questions, please contact Patricia O'Brien at (212) 998-6183, obrienp@exchange.law.nyu.edu