These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
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Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute)

Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM

Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM
Session: Globalization and Its Impact on Workers (AEA)
Presiding: Steven Davis (University of Chicago and American Enterprise Institute)

Taxes and Wages
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute)
Aparna Mathur (American Enterprise Institute)

What Happened to Employment Stability in America?
Steven Davis (University of Chicago and American Enterprise Institute)

Measuring the Scale and Scope of Services Trade
J. Bradford Jensen (Peterson Institute)
Lori G. Kletzer (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Are Globalization and Labor Standards Antipodes?
Richard Freeman (Harvard University)

Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM

Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM
Session: Taxation and Corporate Investment and Financial Policies (AEA)
Presiding: Jianjun Miao (Boston University)

Dynamic Effects of Permanent and Temporary Dividend Tax Cuts on Corporate Investment and Financial Policies
Jianjun Miao (Boston University)
Francois Gourio (Boston University)

Dividend taxes, Partial Expensing and Business Fixed Investment: The Case of the Bush Tax Cuts
Alan Auerbach (University of California, Berkeley)
Eric Chaney (University of California, Berkeley)
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute)

Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage
Anton Korinek (Columbia University)
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)

The Corporate Propensity to Save
Leigh Riddick (American University)
Toni Whited (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
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