10:00: Introduction, Alan Auerbach, UC Berkeley
10:15: Effects of Income Tax Changes on Economic Growth, Bill Gale, Brookings Institution and Tax Policy Center, and Andrew Samwick, Dartmouth College
Discussant: Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute
11:15: Environmental Taxation, Roberton Williams, University of Maryland
Discussant: Don Fullerton, University of Illinois
12:15: Lunch
1:15: Tax Compliance and Enforcement: New Research and its Policy Implications, Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan
Discussant: David Weisbach, University of Chicago
2:15: Economic and Distributional Effects of Tax Expenditure Limits, Len Burman and Eric Toder, Urban Institute and Tax Policy Center
Discussant: Louis Kaplow, Harvard University
3:15: Break
3:45: The Growing Role of the Tax System in Education Policy, Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan, and Judith Scott-Clayton Columbia University
Discussant: David Figlio, Northwestern University
4:45: Tax Policy toward Low-Income Families, Hilary Hoynes and Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Diane Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and Brookings Institution
8:00: Continental breakfast
8:30: The Economics of Corporate and Business Tax Reform, Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Chicago
Discussant: Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers University
9:30: U.S. Capital Gains and Estate Taxation: Status Report and Directions for Reform, Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University
Discussant: Jim Poterba, MIT and NBER
10:30: Break
11:00: Tax Policy for Retirement Savings, John Friedman, Brown University
Discussant: Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University
12:00: Fundamental Tax Reform: A Comparison of Three Options, Alan Viard, American Enterprise Institute
Discussant: Jim Hines, University of Michigan
1:00: Concluding Comments, Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania