Policy Responses to Tax Competition
Organized by David R. Agrawal, James M. Poterba, and Owen M. Zidar
Supported by Arnold Ventures
March 16-17, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, Zoom

Thursday, March 16

1:30pm

Welcome

1:45pm

Wayfair: A Step Towards the Destination, But Sales Tax Competition Remains

William F. Fox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT)
Donald Bruce, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT)
Alannah M. Shute, University of Tennessee

Discussant:
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

2:45pm

Interjurisdictional Competition and Coordination: Evidence from Kansas City

Donghyuk Kim, Iowa State University

Discussant:
Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley

3:45pm

Break

4:15pm

Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax

Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Discussant:
James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER

5:15pm

General Discussion

5:30pm

Adjourn

6:00pm

Dinner

Friday, March 17

9:00am

Breakfast

9:15am

Inter-municipal Cooperation when Tax Bases are Interdependently Mobile: Shared or Exclusive Tax Bases?

Marie-Laure Breuillé, INRAE
Pascale Duran-Vigneron, Universite de Lorraine, CNRS

Discussant:
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

10:15am

Minimum Tax Rates and Tax Competition: Evidence from Property Tax Limits in Finland

Teemu Lyytikäinen, VATT Institute for Economic Research

Discussant:
Leah Brooks, The George Washington University

11:15am

Break

11:30am

Competition, Harmonization and Redistribution: Corporate Taxation in Switzerland (slides)

Marius Brülhart, University of Lausanne
Marko Koethenbuerger, ETH Zurich
Matthias Krapf, University of Basel
Raphael Parchet, University of Lugano
Kurt Schmidheiny, Universität Basel
David Staubli, Swiss Federal Tax Administration

Discussant:
Jan Brueckner, University of California, Irvine

12:30pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Intergovernmental Grants and Policy Competition: Concepts, Institutions, and Evidence

Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Stan Veuger, American Enterprise Institute

Discussant:
Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER

2:15pm

General Discussion

2:30pm

Adjourn