Taxation of Business Income Conference

Joshua Rauh and Owen M. Zidar, Organizers

October 12, 2018

NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

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
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER

Unintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens
Discussant: Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
9:45 am
Thomas R. Tørsløv, University of Copenhagen
Ludvig S. Wier, University of Copenhagen
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Missing Profits of Nations
Discussant: Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER

Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income
Discussant: Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
11:45 am
Eric C. Ohrn, Grinnell College

Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation
Discussant: Rebecca Lester, Stanford University
12:30 pm
Lunch

Speaker: Danielle Rolfes, KPMG
1:30 pm
Suresh Nallareddy, Duke University
Ethan Rouen, Harvard University
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER

Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality
Discussant: Jon M. Bakija, Williams College
2:15 pm
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Entrepreneurial Entry vs Income Shifting, and the High Cost of Incorporation
Discussant: Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Tom Nicholas, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century
Discussant: Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
4:00 pm
James F. Albertus, Carnegie Mellon University

Does Foreign Tax Arbitrage Promote Innovation?
Discussant: Leslie Robinson, Dartmouth College
4:45 pm
Adjourn