NYU hosts Key Issues in Public Finance: A Conference in Memory of David Bradford today.  Here are the panels, paper presenters, and discussants:

Panel #1:  Issues of Budget Measurement

• Jerry Green (Harvard) & Laurence Kotlikoff (Boston University), On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
• Discussants: Daniel Shaviro (NYU) & Kent Smetters (Penn)

Panel #2:  The New View of Corporate Dividends

• Roger Gordon (UC San Diego), Dividends and Taxes
• Discussants: William Andrews (Harvard) & George Zodrow (Rice)

Panel #3:  Fiscal Decentralization

• Wallace Oates (Maryland), On the Theory and Practice of Fiscal Decentralization
• Discussants: Harvey Rosen (Princeton) & Charles McLure (Hoover Institution)

Panel #4:  The Choice Between income Taxation and Consumption Taxation

• Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley), The Choice between Income and Consumption Taxes: A Primer
• Discussants: Glenn Hubbard (Columbia) & Alvin Warren (Harvard)

Panel #5:  Consumption Tax Implementation

• David Weisbach (Chicago), The Dimensions of Taxation
• Discussants: Edward McCaffery (USC) & Joel Slemrod (Michigan)

Panel #6:  Issues of Transition to a Consumption Tax

• Louis Kaplow (Harvard), Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax
• Discussants: James Hines (Michigan) & Kyle Logue (Michigan)

The conference takes place in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY.  A conference volume is to be published by the Harvard University Press.