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Reuven Avi-Yonah has posted a very brief review of my international tax book in which he states his disagreement with it, and his continue...

Last week the colloquium didn't meet, as Tuesday was a "legislative Monday" at NYU Law School.  But yesterday we resumed with ...

It looks like, over the rest of this year, I will be teaching or going to conferences or giving talks in Luxembourg, Italy, Brazil, Austria,...

According to the online edition of today's New York Times, the West Side Highway "looks like rural Maine." Well, if that...

On Tuesday, Tom Brennan took the train down for Columbia (where he is visiting for the semester, from Northwestern), to present Smooth Retir...

One of the nice features of my neighborhood in the West Village is a local paper that comes out every month, called Westview , which covers ...

Last summer, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem conducted a book symposium on my (as of now) recently published book, Fixing U.S. Internatio...

This Sunday will be the second time in my life that there has been a well-publicized fiftieth anniversary of a public event that I am old en...

Little Gary, shown here courageously entwined with a cloth crocodile, has enjoyed a 700 percent weight increase since we first adopted him, ...

Today in the Tax Policy Colloquium, we discussed the above paper, available here, albeit with technical limitations on the session. Of th...

Sometimes Gary watches the ball (since it's small and moving), other times the players running up and down the court.

It's been a tiring, or should I say taxing, 24 hours.  Last night at about this time (just after 6 pm as I type these words) a small gro...

OK, at the end of my last post I had laid out the new view and noted Shaheen's reliance instead on managerial accounting incentives to e...

Yesterday at the colloquium, we discussed Fadi Shaheen's above-titled paper, which is available here . As background to the paper, the...

Since last spring, I've been interested in writing about behavioral economics and retirement policy.  In particular, I've had in min...

Depending on how you define your terms, yesterday either did or didn't witness the semester's first PM meeting of the NYU Tax Policy...

"New product launch a failure?  Not a problem!  Just call Creative Accounting Solutions ™ !" "Bad third quarter?  Didn'...

I have just posted on SSRN a new article, entitled "The Economics of Tax Law."  Despite the scope implied by the title, it's j...

On Wednesday, January 29, from 9 to 10:30 am, the American Enterprise Institute will be hosting an event called "Corporate Tax Reform:...

Sylvester defends the home front against an invader. Note the ears back, tense posture, and fluffed tail.  He was also caterwauling througho...