Public Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Adam J. Cole and Bradley T. Heim from Treasury Department - Alexander Gelber from University of Pennsylvania - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on October 29 and 30, 2009. Program Co-Directors Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Amy Finkelstein of MIT organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Adam J. Cole, U.S. Treasury Department, "Christmas in August: Prices and Quantities during Sales Tax Holidays"

* Bradley T. Heim and Ithai Z. Lurie, U.S. Treasury Department, "The Effect of Health Insurance Premium Subsidies on Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment

* Alexander Gelber, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, and Joshua Mitchell, Harvard University, "Taxes and Time Allocation"

* James R. Hines Jr., University of Michigan and NBER, and R. Alison Felix, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, "Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States" (NBER Working Paper No. 15263)

* Henrik J. Kleven, London School of Economics; Martin B. Knudsen and Soren Pedersen, Danish Inland Revenue; Claus T. Kreiner, University of Copenhagen; and Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER...