Friday, January 28

10:00 am

Welcome

10:05 am

Evaluating Tax Harmonization

James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER

10:30 am

Tax Spillovers in Cross-Border Real Investment: Evidence from a New Dataset on Multinationals

Michael Keen, University of Tokyo
Li Liu, International Monetary Fund
Hayley M. Pallan, World Bank

10:55 am

Discussion

11:05 am

The Global Minimum Tax

Niels Johannesen, University of Oxford

11:30 am

The Effects of a Global Minimum Tax on Corporate Balance Sheets and Real Activities: Evidence from the Insurance Industry

Johnny Tang, Cornell University

11:55 am

Discussion

12:15 pm

Break

12:30 pm

Tax Subsidy Information and Local Economic Effects

Lisa De Simone, University of Texas
Rebecca Lester, Stanford University
Aneesh Raghunandan, London School of Economics

12:55 pm

Does Transparency Improve Public Policy? Evidence from a Tax Incentive Transparency Initiative (slides)

Calvin N. Thrall, University of Texas, Austin
Nathan M. Jensen, University of Texas, Austin

1:20 pm

Discussion

1:35 pm

Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War

Donghyuk Kim, Iowa State University

2:00 pm

The Marginal Value of Public Funds in a Federation (slides)

David Agrawal, University of California, Irvine
William Hoyt, University of Kentucky
Tidiane Ly, Syracuse University

2:25 pm

Discussion

2:35 pm

Closing Remarks and Next Steps

2:45 pm

Adjourn