OCTOBER 4 Anne Alstott Yale Law School
"Updating the Welfare State: Marriage, the Income Tax, and Social Security in the Age of the New Individualism"
OCTOBER 11 John Brooks Georgetown Law School
"Taxation, Risk, and Portfolio Choice: The Treatment of Returns to Risk Under a Normative Income Tax" (PDF)
OCTOBER 18 Dina Pomeranz Harvard Business School
"No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax"
OCTOBER 25 James Alm Tulane Department of Economics
"Socio-Economic Diversity, Social Capital, and Tax Filing Compliance in the United States" (PDF)
NOVEMBER 8 Michael Graetz Columbia Law School
"Technological Innovation, International Competition, and the Challenges of International Income Taxation" (SSRN)
NOVEMBER 15 Kirk Stark
UCLA Law School "Bribing the States to Tax Food" (PDF)
NOVEMBER 29 Joshua Blank NYU Law School
"Collateral Compliance" (PDF)
NOVEMBER 30 (FRIDAY) Michael Keen IMF
"Revenue Mobilization in Developing Countries" (PDF)
DECEMBER 6 Glenn Hubbard Columbia Business School
"Reforming the Tax Preference for Employer Health Insurance" (link)
"The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending" (link)
"The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance" (link)