Policy Responses to Tax Competition

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

March 16-17, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 16
1:30pm
Welcome
1:45pm
William F. Fox, University of Tennessee
Donald Bruce, University of Tennessee
Alannah M. Shute, University of Tennessee

Wayfair: A Step Towards the Destination, But Sales Tax Competition Remains
Discussant: Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:45pm
Donghyuk Kim, Iowa State University

Interjurisdictional Competition and Coordination: Evidence from Kansas City
Discussant: Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley
3:45pm
Break
4:15pm
Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax
Discussant: James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER
5:15pm
General Discussion
5:30pm
Adjourn
6:00pm
Dinner
Friday, March 17
9:00am
Breakfast
9:15am
Marie-Laure Breuillé, INRAE
Pascale Duran-Vigneron, Universite de Lorraine, CNRS

Inter-municipal Cooperation when Tax Bases are Interdependently Mobile: Shared or Exclusive Tax Bases?
Discussant: Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
10:15am
Teemu Lyytikäinen, VATT Institute for Economic Research

Minimum Tax Rates and Tax Competition: Evidence from Property Tax Limits in Finland
Discussant: Leah Brooks, George Washington University
11:15am
Break
11:30am
Marius Brülhart, University of Lausanne
Marko Koethenbuerger, ETH Zurich
Matthias Krapf, University of Basel
Raphael Parchet, University of Lugano
Kurt Schmidheiny, Universität Basel
David Staubli, Swiss Federal Tax Administration

Competition, Harmonization and Redistribution: Corporate Taxation in Switzerland (slides)
Discussant: Jan Brueckner, University of California at Irvine
12:30pm
Lunch
1:15pm
Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Stan Veuger, American Enterprise Institute

Intergovernmental Grants and Policy Competition: Concepts, Institutions, and Evidence
Discussant: Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER
2:15pm
General Discussion
2:30pm
Adjourn