Public Economics Program Meeting/Economic Analysis of Business Taxation Conference

Raj Chetty, Peter Ganong, Kory Kroft, Joshua Rauh, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Organizers

October 19-20, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 19
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast - Room Skyline DE
Meeting - Room Skyline ABC
The following paper will not be available on YouTube:
9:40 am

Right-to-Counsel in Eviction Court and Rental Housing Markets: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from New York
10:20 am

Early Pension Withdrawal as Stimulus
11:00 am
Break
11:20 am

The Taxation of Couples
12:00 pm
Lunch - Room Skyline DE
1:00 pm

Mismeasuring Risk: The Welfare Effects of Flood Risk Information
1:40 pm

Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies (slides)
2:20 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Can VAT Cuts Dampen the Effects of Food Price Inflation? (slides)
3:00 pm

Understanding Capital Gains Responses to Taxes Using Transaction-Level Data
3:15 pm

Government Audits (slides)
3:30 pm

How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal
3:45 pm

Dying or Lying? For Profit Hospices and End of Life Care
4:00 pm
Break
4:20 pm

Micro vs Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Charles A
Friday, October 20
7:00 am
Economic Analysis of Business Taxation Conference
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast - Parkview Room
Meeting - Riverfront Room
8:20 am
Welcome
The following paper will not be available on YouTube:
8:30 am

Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy
Discussant: Jason Furman, Harvard University
9:20 am

Tax Planning and Multinational Behavior
Discussant: Dhammika Dharmapala, University of California, Berkeley
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Follow the Money! Why Dividends Overreact to Flat-Tax Reforms
Discussant: Adrien Matray, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
11:20 am

Who Benefits from Partnership Flexibility?
Discussant: Rebecca Lester, Stanford University
12:10 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
1:20 pm
Session on International Taxation

The Effect of the Double Irish Arrangement’s Closure on the Location of U.S. Multinational Companies’ Profits

The Geography of Capital Allocation in the Euro Area

A Macroeconomic Perspective on Taxing Multinational Enterprises (slides)
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm
Session on Taxation in Developing Countries

Effective Tax Rates, Firm Size and the Global Minimum Tax

VAT Refunds and Firms’ Performance: Evidence from a Withholding Reform in Honduras

Who Benefits from Payroll Tax Cuts? Market Power, Tax Incidence, and Efficiency
3:40 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Session on Tax Incentives for Investment (the last paper of this session will not be livestreamed)

Unintended Environmental Consequences of Investment Stimulus Policy

Investor Tax Breaks and Financing for Start-ups: Evidence from China

Manufacturing Investment and Employee Earnings: Evidence from Accelerated Depreciation
5:00 pm
Adjourn