Session 1: Capital Income Taxation

8:45 - 9:15, James M. Poterba, (MIT)
                    Taxation, Risk-Taking and Household Portfolio Behavior

9:15 - 9:45, Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley)
                    Taxation and Corporate Financial Policy

9:45 - 10:15, Roger Gordon (University of Michigan) and James R. Hines (University of Michigan)
                      International Taxation

10:15 - 10:45, Break

10:45 - 11:30, Discussion

Session 2: National Saving and Investment

11:30 - 12:00, B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University)
                        Taxation and Saving

12:00 - 1:00, Lunch Break

1:00 - 1:30, Kevin Hassett (American Enterprises Institute) R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University)
                    Tax Policy and Business Investment

1:30 - 2:00, Martin Feldstein (NBER) Jeffrey B. Liebman (Harvard University)
                    Social Security

2:00 - 2:45, Discussion

2:45 - 3:15, Break

Session 3: Theory of Government

3:15 - 3:45, Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley)
                    Local Goods and Public Clubs

3:45 - 4:15, Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) Guido Tabellini (Universita Bocconi)
                    Political Economics and Public Finance

4:15 - 4:45, Louis Kaplow (Harvard University) Steven Shavell (Harvard University)
                    Economic Analysis and the Law

4:45 - 5:30, Discussion

Session 1: Theory of Taxation

8:45 - 9:15, Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley) James R. Hines, Jr. (University of Michigan)
                    Taxation and Economic Efficiency

9:15 - 9:45, Don Fullerton (University of Texas) Gilbert E. Metcalf (Tufts University)
                    Tax Incidence

9:45 - 10:15, Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan) Shlomo Yitzhaki (Hebrew University)
                      Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Administration

10:15 - 10:45, Break

10:45 - 11:30, Discussion

Session 2: Market Failures

11:30 - 12:00, Lans Bovenberg (Tilburg University) Lawrence H. Goulder (Stanford University)
                        Environmental Economics

12:00 - 1:00, Lunch Break

1:00 - 1:30, David M. Cutler (Harvard University)
                    Health Care and the Public Sector

1:30 - 2:00, Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford University)
                    Publicly Provided Education

2:00 - 2:45, Discussion

3:15 - 3:45, Break

Session 3: Labor Supply

3:15 - 3:45, Alan Krueger (Princeton University) Bruce Meyer (Northwestern University)
                    Social Insurance and Labor Supply

3:45 - 4:15, Robert A. Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)
                    Welfare Programs and Labor Supply

4:15 - 4:45, Robert Triest (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
                    Taxes and Labor Supply

4:45 - 5:30, Discussion

Picture Gallery of Conference Forthcoming...