Universities' Research Conference
Organized by Joshua Rauh
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
May 5-6, 2016
NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, May 5
1

Destination Taxation: Road to Economic Success?

William F. Fox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT)
Zhou Yang, Robert Morris University
2

The Impact of State Taxes on Pass-Through Businesses: Evidence from the 2012 Kansas Income Tax Reform

Jason M. DeBacker, University of South Carolina - Columbia
Bradley Heim, University of Central Florida
Shanthi P. Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Justin M. Ross, Indiana University
3

To Cut or Not to Cut? On the Impact of Corporate Taxes on Employment and Income

Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Michael Smolyansky, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
4

Investment and Employment Responses to State Adoption of Federal Accelerated Depreciation Policies

Eric C. Ohrn, Grinnell College
5

Tax Compliance and Fi scal Externalities: Evidence from U.S. Diesel Taxation

Justin Marion, University of California Santa Cruz
Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER
Friday, May 6
7

The Internet as a Tax Haven? The Effect of the Internet on Tax Competition

David R. Agrawal, University of California, Irvine
8

Can Taxes Shape an Industry? Evidence from the Implementation of the “Amazon Tax”

Brian Baugh, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Itzhak Ben-David, The Ohio State University and NBER
Hoonsuk Park, University of Melbourne
9

The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners: Evidence from Star Scientists

Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco