112th Annual Conference Schedule at a Glance

Thursday, November 21

8:00 – 8:30 am

8:30 – 10:00 am

Morning Coffee

Concurrent Sessions
10:00 – 10:15 am

Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:45 am

Concurrent Sessions
12:00 – 1:30 pm

Luncheon/Keynote Speaker:

  • Joel Slemrod, Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Professor of Economics

Presentation of Awards:

  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation
  • National Tax Journal Referee of the Year Award
  • National Tax Journal Richard Musgrave Prize
1:45 – 3:15 pm
  • Plenary: Capital and Wealth Taxation
  • Moderator: James Poterba (MIT)
  • Panelists:
    • Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School)
    • Beth Kaufman (Caplin & Drysdale)
    • Henrik Kleven (Princeton University)
    • Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
3:15 – 3:45 pm

Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions
5:15 – 6:15 pm

Presidential Address and Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association
6:15 – 7:30 pm

Thursday Night Reception

Friday, November 22

7:15 – 8:15 am

Graduate Student Breakfast

8:00 – 8:30 am

8:30 – 10:00 am

Morning Coffee

Concurrent Sessions
10:00 – 10:15 am

Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:45 am

Concurrent Sessions
12:00 – 1:30 pm

Luncheon/Keynote:

  • Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics, Chancellor’s Professorship of Tax Policy and Public Finance, Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley
1:45 – 3:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions
3:15 – 3:45 pm

Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:15 pm

General Session/Plenary in Honor of Louis Kaplow, 2019 Holland Award Recipient

  • Moderator: Alvin Warren (MIT)
  • Panelists:
    • Alan Auerbach
      (University of California, Berkeley)
    • James Hines (University of Michigan)
    •  Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)
    • David Weisbach
      (University of Chicago Law School)
5:15 – 6:30 pm

Graduate Student Poster Session
5:15 – 6:30 pm

Friday Night Reception in Honor of 2019 Holland Award Recipient Louis Kaplow

Saturday, November 23

8:00 – 8:30 am

8:30 – 10:00 am

Morning Coffee

Concurrent Sessions
10:00 – 10:15 am

Coffee Break
10:15-11:45 am

Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm

Lunch On Your Own
1:00 – 2:30 pm

Short Course: The Behavioral Economics of Taxation

  • Alex Rees-Jones, Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Sponsored by the University of Michigan Office of Tax Policy Research