Meeting time is 1:30 – 2:30pm. Refreshments will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Meeting time is 12:00 – 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Meeting time is 12:00 – 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Meeting time is 12:00 – 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Public Policy Working Group.

Meeting time is 12:00 – 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Brigham Walker is a graduate student in Economics.  His research interests include health systems, human capital, development economics, fiscal policy, behavioral economics.

Co-sponsored by Tulane’s Murphy Institute and Tulane Law School, the Tulane Tax Roundtable brings together tax scholars from around the country, resident Tulane faculty and Tulane students for discussion and debate about important tax policy issues of our time. The roundtable showcases the drafts and works-in-progress of its participants and subjects these works to rigorous analysis in a discussant-driven workshop format.

8:30-9:45         Disparate Impact and the Impact of Disparateness

Discussant: Ann Lipton (Tulane)

• Afra Afsharipour (UC Davis), Women and M&A
• Kristin Johnson (Tulane), Regulating Algorithmic Bias

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) dramatically cut corporate tax rates, significantly changed individual income tax calculations, and curtailed numerous deductions and allowances. These federal changes also had a significant but varied effect on state corporate and individual income tax systems and taxpayers, but those effects depended on how states responded to the new federal tax law.

The conference is jointly organized by the Murphy Institute and the European University Institute, Florence.  The UK's Brexit referendum and the US's 2016 presidential primaries signaled that significant elements of civil society are unhappy with the political and economic system that has been in place since the end of World War II.  The world trading system, based on the European Union and the World Trade Organization, and extended by a wide range of other agreements, appeared to be an extraordinary example of a broadly rule-based system, but it is now targete

Mashfiqur Khan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Murphy Institute and Department of Economics, is an applied microeconomist with primary interests in labor economics and economics of aging. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Boston College in 2017 and, as a Fulbright Fellow, received an M.A. in economics at the New York University in 2010. His research is broadly focused on analyzing the interactions among old age labor supply, health, and the Social Security system in the United States.