Taxation of Business Income Conference
Organized by Joshua Rauh and Owen M. Zidar
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
October 12, 2018
NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 11
7:00 pm
Dinner for Authors and Discussants at Dante Restaurant, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, October 12
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Unintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
9:45 am

The Missing Profits of Nations

Thomas R. Tørsløv, University of Copenhagen
Ludvig S. Wier, University of Copenhagen
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income

James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER

Discussant:
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
11:45 am

Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation

Eric C. Ohrn, Grinnell College

Discussant:
Rebecca Lester, Stanford University
12:30 pm
Lunch

Speaker: Danielle Rolfes, KPMG
1:30 pm

Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

Suresh Nallareddy, Duke University
Ethan Rouen, Harvard University
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Jon M. Bakija, Williams College
2:15 pm

Entrepreneurial Entry vs Income Shifting, and the High Cost of Incorporation

Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Discussant:
Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Tom Nicholas, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
4:00 pm

Does Foreign Tax Arbitrage Promote Innovation?

James F. Albertus, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:
Leslie Robinson, Dartmouth College
4:45 pm
Adjourn