Economic Impacts of Interjurisdictional Tax Competition

David R. Agrawal, James M. Poterba, and Owen M. Zidar, Organizers

January 28, 2022

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Friday, January 28
10:00 am	Welcome
10:05 am	James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER Evaluating Tax Harmonization
10:30 am	Michael Keen, University of Tokyo Li Liu, International Monetary Fund Hayley M. Pallan, World Bank Tax Spillovers in Cross-Border Real Investment: Evidence from a New Dataset on Multinationals
10:55 am	Discussion
11:05 am	Niels Johannesen, University of Oxford The Global Minimum Tax
11:30 am	Johnny Tang, Cornell University The Effects of a Global Minimum Tax on Corporate Balance Sheets and Real Activities: Evidence from the Insurance Industry
11:55 am	Discussion
12:15 pm	Break
12:30 pm	Lisa De Simone, University of Texas Rebecca Lester, Stanford University Aneesh Raghunandan, London School of Economics Tax Subsidy Information and Local Economic Effects
12:55 pm	Calvin N. Thrall, University of Texas, Austin Nathan M. Jensen, University of Texas, Austin Does Transparency Improve Public Policy? Evidence from a Tax Incentive Transparency Initiative (slides)
1:20 pm	Discussion
1:35 pm	Donghyuk Kim, Iowa State University Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War
2:00 pm	David Agrawal, University of California, Irvine William Hoyt, University of Kentucky Tidiane Ly, Syracuse University The Marginal Value of Public Funds in a Federation (slides)
2:25 pm	Discussion
2:35 pm	Closing Remarks and Next Steps
2:45 pm	Adjourn