Taxation of Business Income

Joshua Rauh and Owen M. Zidar, Organizers

October 2-3, 2019

NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, October 2
6:30 pm
Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 3
8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am

Taxing Billionaires: Estate Taxes and the Geographical Location of the Forbes 400
9:30 am

The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Taxation on Multi-Establishment Firms
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

Double Trouble: How Much of U.S. Multinationals' Profits are really in Tax Havens?
Discussant: Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
11:05 am

Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.
Discussant: Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
12:45 pm

Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives (slides)
Discussant: Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
1:30 pm

Does Taxing Business Owners Affect Their Employees? Evidence from a Change in the Top Marginal Tax Rate.
Discussant: Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
2:15 pm
Break
2:35 pm

Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia (slides)
3:05 pm

Monitoring Tax Compliance by Multinationals Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile
3:35pm

Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices (slides)
4:05 pm
Break
4:25 pm

Corporate Taxes and the Wage Distribution: Effects of the Domestic Production Activities Deduction
4:55 pm

Impacts of the 199A Deduction for Pass-through Owners (slides)
5:25 pm
Adjourn