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Key Issues in Public Finance
A Conference in Memory of David Bradford
Friday May 5, 2006
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room
Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street
Panel format: Each author will speak for 20 minutes. Each discussant will speak for 10 minutes. General discussion will follow.
| Breakfast
7:45am – 8:30am |
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| Opening Remarks 8:30am – 8:40am |
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| PANEL 1: ISSUES OF BUDGET MEASUREMENT
8:40am – 9:50am |
| Authors: |
Jerry Green, Harvard University
Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University | Paper |
| Discussants: |
Daniel Shaviro, NYU
Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Short Break 9:50am – 10am |
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| PANEL 2: THE NEW VIEW OF CORPORATE DIVIDENDS 10am – 11:10am |
| Author: |
Roger Gordon, UC San Diego | Paper |
| Discussants: |
William Andrews, Harvard University
George Zodrow, Rice University
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| Coffee Break 11:10am – 11:25am |
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| PANEL 3:
FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION 11:25am – 12:35pm |
| Author: |
Wallace Oates, University of Maryland | Paper |
| Discussants: |
Harvey Rosen, Princeton University
Charles McLure, Hoover Institution |
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| Lunch Pollack Colloquium Room and Terrace
12:35pm – 1:35pm |
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PANEL 4: THE CHOICE BETWEEN INCOME TAXATION AND
CONSUMPTION TAXATION 1:35pm – 2:45pm
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| Author: |
Alan Auerbach, UC Berkeley | Paper |
| Discussants: |
Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University
Alvin Warren, Harvard University
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| Short Break 2:45pm – 2:55pm |
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| PANEL 5: CONSUMPTION TAX IMPLEMENTATION
2:55pm – 4:05pm
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| Author: |
David Weisbach, University of Chicago | Paper |
| Discussants: |
Edward McCaffery, USC
Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan |
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| Coffee Break 4:05pm – 4:20pm |
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| PANEL 6: ISSUES OF TRANSITION TO A CONSUMPTION TAX
4:20pm – 5:30pm
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| Author: |
Louis Kaplow, Harvard University | Paper |
| Discussants: |
James Hines, University of Michigan
Kyle Logue, University of Michigan |
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A conference volume is to be published by the Harvard University Press. Each session will run for about 70 minutes with extensive audience participation.
We are grateful to the generous sponsors who have made this conference possible. They include NYU School of Law, the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, the Harvard Law School Fund for Tax and Fiscal Research, and the American Enterprise Institute.
For more information, please contact David Wise at david.wise@nyu.edu.
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