Economic Impacts of Interjurisdictional Tax Competition
Organized by David R. Agrawal, James M. Poterba, and Owen M. Zidar
Supported by Arnold Ventures
January 28, 2022
on Zoom.us

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, The University of Tokyo
Li Liu, International Monetary Fund
Hayley M. Pallan, The 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 and Political Science (LSE)

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