Economic Impacts of Interjurisdictional Tax Competition.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on the Economic Impacts of Interjurisdictional Tax Competition took place January 28 online. Research Associates James M. Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Owen M. Zidar of Princeton University, and David Agrawal of the University of Kentucky organized the meeting, which was supported by Arnold Ventures Grant 20-05306. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Donghyuk Kim, Iowa State University, "Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War"

* Calvin N. Thrall and Nathan M. Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, "Does Transparency Improve Public Policy? Causal Evidence from a Tax Incentive Transparency Initiative"

* Johnny Tang, Harvard University, "The Effects of a Global Minimum Tax on Corporate Balance Sheets and Real Activities: Evidence from the Insurance Industry"

* Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen, "The Global Minimum Tax"

* James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER, "Evaluating Tax...