Tax policy and the economy.

NBER Research Associate Jeffrey Brown of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign organized an NBER conference on "Tax Policy and the Economy" which took place in Washington on October 3, 2013. These papers were discussed:

* Douglas Shackelford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and NBER, and Kevin Markle, Dartmouth College, "The Impact of Headquarter and Subsidiary Locations on Multinationals' Effective Tax Rates"

* Annette Alstadsaeter, University of Oslo; Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University and NBER; and Kjetil Telle, Statistics Norway, "Are Closely-Held Firms Tax Shelters?"

* Christopher Knittel, MIT and NBER, "The Political Economy of Gasoline Taxes: Lessons from the Oil Embargo"

* David Albouy, University of...