Behavioral responses to taxation.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 7 to discuss "Behavioral Responses to Taxation." Program Director James M. Poterba of MIT organized the meeting. These topics were discussed:

Seth H. Giertz, Congressional Budget Office, "Recent Literature on Taxable Income Elasticities"

Craig Johnson, U.S. Treasury, "The Use of the Portfolio Allocation General Equilibrium Model to Evaluate the Economic Effects of Reform"

Susan Yang, Joint Committee on Taxation, "Dynamic Scoring with Government Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model"

Wojciech Kopczuk, NBER and Columbia University, "Tax Bases, Tax Rates, and the Elasticity of Reported Taxable Income" Discussant: Nada Eissa, NBER and Georgetown University

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