Conference on Empirical Tax Law Kicks Off Today at Colorado

The two-day conference on Empirical Tax Law kicks off today at Colorado with these papers:

• Joshua Blank (NYU) & Nancy Staudt (Northwestern), Corporate Tax Abuse in Court (Discussant: Leandra Lederman)
• Victor Fleischer (Colorado) & Nancy Staudt (Northwestern), Do Elite Tax Lawyers Add Value? An Empirical Study of Tax Receivable Agreements (Discussant: Joshua Blank)
• David Gamage (UC-Berkeley), Experimental Evidence of Tax Framing Effects on the Work/Leisure Decision (Discussant: Brian Galle)
• Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington) & Dan Katz (Michigan), Which Cases Settle? A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Tax Court Cases (Discussant: Victor Fleischer)
• Chris Sanchirico (Penn), Optimal Tax Policy and the Symmetries of Ignorance (Discussant: David Gamage)
• Mike Simkovic (Seton Hall), Is the U.S. Tax System Justifiable? (Discussant: Victor Fleischer)