22. og 23. juni feira OTPR 30 år saman med ei rekke av verdas fremste skatteforskarar. Og Skatteforsk var med.
Joels Slemrod og Jim Hines hadde satt saman eit imponerande program for jubileumskonferansen og samla 160 forskere til eit variert program med paperpresentasjonar og diskusjonar om forskingstema for framtida:
June 22, 2018 -- 6th Floor Ross Colloquium (701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor)
10:30 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. -- Roundtable on Global Tax Policy Issues
Moderator: Thomas Neubig, Tax Sage Network
Panelists
Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Bird, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Devereux, Oxford University
James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvey Rosen, Princeton University
12:15 p.m. -- 1:30 p.m. -- Lunch; Speaker, James R. Hines, Jr., Research Director, OTPR
1:30 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. -- Roundtable on Promising New Directions in Tax Research
Moderator: Roger Gordon, University of California, San Diego (TBC)
Panelists
Raj Chetty, Stanford University
Henrik Kleven, Princeton University
Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley
3:00 p.m. -- 3:30 p.m. -- Break
3:30 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. -- Roundtable on What It Would Be Good to Know By 2048
Moderator: Dan Silverman, Arizona State University
Panelists
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago
7:00 p.m. -- Dinner; Speaker, Joel Slemrod, Director, OTPR -- University of Michigan Stadium (Jack Roth Stadium Club Room)
June 23, 2018 -- 6th Floor Ross Colloquium (701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor)
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Workshop on New Directions in Tax Theory
Chair: Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University
“Sales Taxation, Spatial Agglomeration and the Internet”
David R. Agrawal and David E. Wildasin, University of Kentucky
“Generalized Compensation Principle”
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University; and Nicolas Werquin, University of Toulouse
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 - 12:30 p.m. Workshop on New Empirical Findings in Taxation
Chair: John Friedman, Brown University
“Intertemporal Income Shifting: Evidence from Small Business Owners”
Helen Miller, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Thomas Pope and Kate Smith, Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London
“Tax Simplicity and Heterogeneous Learning”
Philippe Aghion, College de France, Ufuk Akeigit, University of Chicago, Matthieu Lequien, Banque de France, and Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University
“Strategic Subsidiary Disclosure”
Scott Dyreng, Duke University, Jeffrey L. Hoopes, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Patrick Langetieg, Internal Revenue Service, and Jaron Wilde, University of Iowa
“Taxpayer Responsiveness and Statutory Incidence: Evidence from Irish Social Security Notches”
Enda Hargaden, University of Tennessee, and Barra Roantree, Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch; Speaker: Douglas Shackelford, Dean, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Workshop on New Research in Tax Compliance and Enforcement
Chair: Julie Cullen, University of California, San Diego
“Tax Evasion and Inequality”
Annette Alstadsæter, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen; and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley
“Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts”
Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen; Patrick Langetieg, Internal Revenue Service; Daniel Reck, London School of Economics; Max Risch, University of Michigan; and Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan
“Reducing Evasion Through Self-Reporting: Evidence from Charitable Contributions”
Alisa Tazhitdinova, McMaster University
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Workshop on New Tax Research in Developing Countries
Chair: Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis
“Firms Response to Tax Enforcement through Audits”
Claudio A. Agostini, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez; Juan Pablo Atal, University of Pennsylvania; and Andrea Repetto, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
“Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics: Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador”
Albrecht Bohne, University of Mannheim and Jan Sebastian Nimczik, Humboldt University
“Casting a Wider Tax Net: Experimental Evidence from Costa Rica”
Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez, The World Bank; Stewart Kettle, Behavioral Insights Team; and Spencer Smith, University of Oxford
5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/OTPR-30th-Anniversary/Schedule.aspx