Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar.

• Position: Seminar of the National Bureau of Economic Research

The NBER's Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar took place in Denmark this year through a collaboration with the Economic Policy Research Unit of the Copenhagen Business School. The May 21-3 conference on "Taxes, Social Insurance Policies, and the Labor Market" was organized by Roger M. Gordon, NBER and the University of Michigan, and Soren Bo Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School. The following participants presented their research:

Patricia M. Anderson, NBER and Dartmouth College, and Bruce D. Meyer, NBER and Northwestern University, "The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Employment and Wages: A Natural Experiment From Washington State"

Discussants: Janet Currie, NBER and University of California, Los Angeles, and Thomas Lemieux, NBER and University of Montreal

Nils Soren Blomquist and Matias Eklof, Uppsala University; and Whitney Newey, MIT, "Tax Reform Evaluation Using Nonparametric Methods: Sweden, 1980-91"

Discussants: Richard Blundell, Institute for Fiscal Studies; and James J. Heckman, NBER and University of Chicago

Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber, University of Munich, "Why Do Countries Subsidize Investment and Not Employment?"

Discussants: Ann-Sofie Kolm, University of Uppsala, and John Whalley, NBER and University of Western Ontario

David Neumark, NBER and Michigan State University, and Elizabeth Powers, University of Illinois, "Welfare for the Elderly: The Effects of SSI on Preretirement Labor Supply" (NBER Working Paper No. 6303)

Discussants: Patricia M. Anderson; and Axel H. Borsch-Supan, NBER and University of Mannheim

Axel H. Borsch-Supan, "Social Security and Declining Labor Force Participation: Evidence of Incentive Effects Across Europe and in Germany"

Discussants: Phillippe Bacchetta, Studienzentrum Gerzensee, and Bernd Huber

Phillip B. Levine, NBER and Wellesley College, and David E. Card, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, "Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the State of New Jersey: The Relationship Between Maximum Benefit Duration and Spell Length" (NBER Working Paper No. 6714)

Discussants: Nils Soren Blomquist and Bruce J. Meyer

Martin Browning, McMaster University, and Thomas F. Crossley, York University, "Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels and Consumption Changes"

Discussants: Costas Meghit, Institute for Fiscal Studies; and James M. Poterba, NBER and MIT

Thomas Lemieux; and W. Bentley MacLeod, University of Southern California, "Supply Side Hysteresis: The Case of the Canadian...