Tax Policy Colloquium and Seminar
Professors Daniel Shaviro and Alan Auerbach
Spring 2012
Tax Policy & Public Finance - LAW-LW.10787.001 (4 credits)
Tuesday, 10:00-11:50 a.m. Furman Hall, Room 318
Colloquium, 4:00-5:50 p.m.,
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
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. Students must prepare a short comment paper in 5 of the 14 weeks focusing on the upcoming paper, make a short in-class presentation on one of the papers, and submit to the conveners of the Colloquium a proposed question for the author in each week (after Week 1) when they are not submitting a comment paper or making an oral presentation.
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
shavirod@exchange.law.nyu.edu
http://danshaviro.blogspot.com/
Spring 2012 Schedule
(All sessions meet on Tuesdays from 4-5:50 pm in Vanderbilt 208, NYU Law School)
January 17
Michelle Hanlon, MIT Sloan School of Management
"Taking the Long Way Home: Offshore Investments in U.S. Equity and Debt Markets and U.S. Tax Evasion"
January 24
Amy Monahan, University of Minnesota Law School
"Will Employers Undermine Health Care Reform by Dumping Sick Employees?"
January 31
Alex Raskolnikov, Columbia Law School
"Accepting the Limits of Tax Law and Economics"
February 7
Victor Fleishcher, University of Colorado Law School
"Tax and the Boundaries of the Firm"
February 14
Heather Field, Hastings College of Law
"Binding Choices: Tax Elections & Federal/State Conformity"
February 28
Daniel Shaviro, New York University School of Law
"The Financial Transactions Tax Versus the Financial Activities Tax"
March 6
Edward Kleinbard, USC Law School
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March 20
Susan Morse, Hastings College of Law
"Worldwide Corporate Income Tax Consolidation and a Corporate Offshore Excise Tax"
March 27
Stephen Shay, Harvard Law School
"Unpacking Territorial"
April 3
Jon Bakija, Williams College Economics Department
"Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Date"
April 10
Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona Sociology Department
"Getting Taxes Right: What can we Learn from the Comparative Evidence?"
April 17
Yair Listokin, Yale Law School
"'I Like to Pay Taxes': Lessons of Philanthropy for Tax and Spending Policy" (with David Schizer)
April 24
William Gale, Brookings Institution
"Fiscal Theraphy"
May 1
Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers Economics Department and Harry Grubert, U.S. Treasury Department
"A New View on International Tax Reform"
Schedules from prior semesters: