About The Speakers

Janet Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tulane University in the A.B. Freeman School of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University. Her current research is at the intersection of marketing and public policy where she uses insights from behavioral economics to investigate how consumers navigate the healthcare marketplace. She uses a variety of methods to better understand healthcare as a consumer experience. Her hope is that these insights can be used to inform policy that improves consumer welfare.

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Jane Arnold Lincove holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Public Policy from UCLA. Her research examines the design and effects of market-based education reforms in the US and developing countries.

The one-day conference will focus on the theoretical underpinnings of moral decision making and their applications to a variety of issues in the marketplace. The conference will provide an outlet for researchers from a range of disciplines including anthropology, psychology, and philosophy to share their approaches, findings, and exchange in a discussion of their work.

This one-day conference will explore new contributions to behavioral public economics, including empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions. The conference aims to bring together researchers across disciplines including economics, psychology, law, and accounting to explore recent advances in the field and to increase awareness of the subject.

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Conference participants include:

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.

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8:55 am to 9:00 am
Welcome Remarks from David D. Meyer, Dean and Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School

This one-day conference, organized by the Murphy Institute and the Department of Economics at Tulane University, will explore new research on state and local tax reforms, including empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions, in the face of increasing challenges in areas such as the growth of services and internet sales, increased tax competition, greater factor mobility across state (and national) boundaries, and other similar developments.

8:45 am – 9:30 am
Presenter: James Alm (Tulane Economics)
Evaluating the Economic Effects of Flat Tax Reforms Using Synthetic Control Methods
(with Bibek Adhikari)
Discussant: Brian Galle (Georgetown)

9:30 am – 10:15 am
Presenter: Leigh Osofsky (Miami)
Simplexity and the Tax Law
(with Joshua Blank)
Discussant: Lawrence Zelenak (Duke)

10: 15 – 10:30 am
Break

8:30am COFFEE AND BREAKFAST
Tulane University Law School, Room 214

8:55am WELCOME REMARKS
Tulane University Law School, Room 214

9:00am THEME ONE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TECHNOLOGY, AND SHARING
Technoheritage
Sonia Katyal (University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

Intellectual Property and the Myth of Nonrivalry
James Y. Stern (William & Mary Law School)

10:40am BREAK

In the past year, or so, we have witnessed the emergence of active public politics on a variety of aspects of globalization—in particular, immigration and trade (as embodied in large scale PTAs). There has also been concern with financialization and its link to globalization. Areas of particular concern are distributional issues and concerns about the sustainability of progressive welfare state policies.