Program Overview

Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium

The Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium offers students the opportunity to pursue tax policy and theory, along with related issues of public economics, at an advanced level. The primary focus of the Colloquium will be papers and works in progress by scholars from around the country, including NYU faculty.

Fall 2025 Schedule

• Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m., Furman Hall 310
• Professor Daniel Shaviro

Colloquium Details

The Colloquium provides a unique learning experience, where students attend the afternoon Colloquium and participate in its discussions. In addition, each week the morning seminar component examines the paper scheduled for presentation at the Colloquium, including background issues that may help in understanding it. Students must prepare a short comment paper in 3 of the 13 weeks focusing on the upcoming paper, and submit to the conveners of the Colloquium a proposed question for the author in each week (after Week 1) when they are not submitting a comment paper. Each student will also make brief opening comments about the paper that is being discussed at two of the six private sessions.

Guest Speakers

The following guest speakers are scheduled to present at the Colloquium in Fall 2025, along with their respective topics and dates of presentation are as follows: Michael Schler, Cravath, Swaine & Moore (retired) - The State of the Federal Income Tax System: Poor on September 9; Richard Winchester, Brooklyn Law School - A Tax Policing Paradox on September 23; Susannah Tahk, University of Wisconsin Law School - A Tale of Two Tax Credits on October 7; Nirupama Rao, University of Michigan Business School - Who's Afraid of the Minimum Wage? on October 21; Conor Clarke, Washington University in St. Louis Law School - What Made Income Taxes Possible? on November 11; Daniel Shaviro, Daniel Hemel, David Kamin & NYU Law School - The Rise, Fall, and Survival of the Haig-Simon on November 25.

Past Schedules

Past schedules for the Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium are available for the following years:

• Fall 2024
• Fall 2023
• Fall 2022
• Fall 2021
• Fall 2020
• Fall 2019
• Spring 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• Additional Schedules (2012, 2011, 2010)

These schedules include the dates, times, locations, and topics of presentations, as well as the names and affiliations of the guest speakers.