
	Friday, October 14
	Stanford Map Driving & Parking
8:20 am	Continental Breakfast
8:50 am	Welcome
9:00 am	Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Worker Earnings: Evidence from Small Businesses in Canada (slides) Yige Duan, University of British Columbia Terry Moon, University of British Columbia
9:45 am	Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment (slides) Cameron LaPoint, Yale University Shogo Sakabe, LMU Munich
10:30 am	Break
	Special Session on Opportunity Zones:
10:45 am	The Effect of Capital Gains Taxes on Business Creation and Employment: The Case of Opportunity Zones (slides) Alina Arefeva, University of Wisconsin-Madison Morris Davis, Rutgers University Andra C. Ghent, University of Utah Minseon Park, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:05 am	The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity (slides) Kevin Corinth, University of Chicago Naomi E. Feldman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:25 am	The Effect of Tax Incentives on Local Private Investments and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
11:45 am	Session Discussion
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Tax Policy, Investment and Profit-Shifting (slides) Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER Michael P. Devereux, University of Oxford Irem Guceri, University of Oxford
1:45 pm	Profit Shifting Frictions and the Geography of Multinational Activity Alessandro Ferrari, University of Zurich Sébastien Laffitte, CYU - Cergy Paris University Mathieu Parenti, Paris School of Economics Farid Toubal, University of Paris-Dauphine
2:30 pm	IPOs and Corporate Tax Planning (slides) Christine L. Dobridge, Federal Reserve Board Rebecca Lester, Stanford University Robert Whitten, Department of the Treasury
3:15 pm	Break
	Special Session on Profit Shifting and Tax Reforms:
3:45 pm	Tax Deficits and the Income Shifting of U.S. Multinationals Scott Dyreng, Duke University Robert W. Hills, Pennsylvania State University Kevin S. Markle, Michigan State University
4:05 pm	Did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Reduce Profit Shifting by US Multinational Companies? (slides) Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Utrecht University Petr Janský, Charles University Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:25 pm	The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Christine L. Dobridge, Federal Reserve Board Patrick J. Kennedy, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Paul Landefeld, Joint Committee on Taxation Jacob Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation
4:45 pm	Measuring the Effects of the Global Tax Reform - Evidence from High-Frequency Data (slides) Roberto Gomez Cram, London Business School Marcel Olbert, London Business School
5:05 pm	Session Discussion
5:25 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner Joya Restaurant, 339 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA

Participants

Alina Arefeva, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
Jakob A. Brounstein, University of California at Berkeley
Eva Davoine, University of California, Berkeley
Yige Duan, University of British Columbia
Scott Dyreng, Duke University
Naomi E. Feldman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Irem Guceri, University of Oxford
Audrey Guo, Santa Clara University
Pablo Gutierrez Cubillos, Universidad de Chile
Jonathan S. Hartley, Stanford University
Robert W. Hills, Pennsylvania State University
Andrew C. Johnston, University of California, Merced and NBER
Kenneth L. Judd, Stanford University and NBER
Zane Kashner, Stanford University
Patrick J. Kennedy, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Guillermo LaGarda, Inter-American Development Bank

Cameron LaPoint, Yale University
Ségal Le Guern Herry
Wouter Leenders, University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca Lester, Stanford University
Felipe Lobel, University of California, Berkeley
Jakob Miethe, LMU Munich
Terry Moon, University of British Columbia
Max B. Norton, University of British Columbia
Marcel Olbert, London Business School
Mathieu Parenti, Paris School of Economics
Minseon Park, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kevin Parra Ramirez, Sciences-Po Paris
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER
Camille Semelet, LMU and ifo Institute
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Farid Toubal, University of Paris-Dauphine
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER