PROGRAM
Days: Monday, April 25th Tuesday, April 26th
Monday, April 25th
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08:00-09:00 Session : Registration
Location: Meeting Hall
09:00-10:30 Session 1A: Local Public Economics
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Location: Room 1
09:00 | Municipal Mergers and Economic Activity: Evidence from Germany ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Local labor market effects of public employment ( abstract ) |
10:00 | Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state ( abstract ) |
09:00-10:30 Session 1B: European Unemployment Insurance
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Location: Heinz-König-Hall
09:00 | Drowned by Numbers? Designing an EU-wide Unemployment Insurance ( abstract ) |
09:30 | A European Unemployment Insurance System: Redistributive and stabilizing effects ( abstract ) |
10:00 | An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives Using Micro Data ( abstract ) |
10:30-11:00 Session : Coffee break
Location: Meeting Hall
12:00-13:00 Session : Lunch
Location: Meeting Hall
13:00-14:30 Session 2A: Corporate Taxation I
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Location: Room 1
13:00 | Corporate Flat Tax Reforms and Businesses’ Location Choices. Evidence from Switzerland ( abstract ) |
13:30 | CORPORATE INCOME TAX REFORM IN THE EU ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Taxing Away M&A: The Effect of Corporate Capital Gains Taxes on Acquisition Activity ( abstract ) |
13:00-14:30 Session 2B: Political Economy
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Location: Room 2
13:00 | Helping the Neighbor out: Financial Solidarity in Germany and the European Union ( abstract ) |
13:30 | If you want me to stay, pay: a model of asymmetric federalism in centralised countries ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Candidate self- and voter selection: Evidence from a free market for executive political candidates ( abstract ) |
13:00-14:30 Session 2C: Fiscal Transfers
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Location: Heinz-König-Hall
13:00 | Fiscal transfers and risk sharing in monetary union ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Absorbing Shocks: The Role of Rainy Day Funds and Transfers in a Fiscal Union ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Remittances and Public Finances: Evidence from Oil-Price Shocks ( abstract ) |
14:30-15:00 Session : Coffee break
Location: Meeting Hall
15:00-16:30 Session 3A: Taxation and Employment
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Location: Room 1
15:00 | Learning Dynamics in Tax Bunching at the Kink: Evidence from Ecuador ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Income taxation with frictional labor supply ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Employment Effects of Local Business Taxes ( abstract ) |
15:00-16:30 Session 3B: Fiscal Stabilization in the Great Recession
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Location: Heinz-König-Hall
15:00 | Determinants of sub-sovereign bond yield spreads – The role of fiscal fundamentals and federal bailout expectations ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Who's Coming to the Rescue? Revenue-Sharing Slumps and Implicit Bailouts during the Great Recession ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Crisis, Austerity and Automatic Stabilization ( abstract ) |
16:30-17:00 Session : Coffee break
Location: Meeting Hall
17:00-18:30 Session 4A: EU Budget
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Location: Room 1
17:00 | Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners' Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union ( abstract ) |
17:30 | EU Taxes as Genuine Own Resource to Finance the EU Budget – Pros, Cons and Sustainability-oriented Criteria to Evaluate Potential Tax Candidates ( abstract ) |
18:00 | The political economy of EU-funds in Poland 2009 - 2011 ( abstract ) |
17:00-18:30 Session 4B: Behavioural Responses to Taxation
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Location: Heinz-König-Hall
17:00 | How do small firms respond do tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers ( abstract ) |
17:30 | Responses of Firms to Tax and Administrative Rules: Evidence from Armenia ( abstract ) |
18:00 | Behavioral Responses to Wealth Transfer Taxation: Bunching Evidence from Germany ( abstract ) |
Tuesday, April 26th
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09:00-10:30 Session 5A: Fiscal Competition
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Location: Room 1
09:00 | International tax competition and the deficit bias ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Commercial Land Use and Interjurisdictional Competition ( abstract ) |
10:00 | Can revenue equalisation mitigate tax competition? Ad valorem, residence-based taxation in a federation ( abstract ) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5B: Public Budgets
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Location: Heinz-König-Hall
09:00 | Housing Boom-Busts, Temporary Windfalls, and Local Government Budgets ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Revenue scarcity and government outsourcing: Causal evidence from Norwegian local governments ( abstract ) |
10:00 | The Flypaper Effect in Municipal Finance: A Regression Kink Design ( abstract ) |
10:30-11:00 Session : Coffee break
Location: Meeting Hall
11:00-12:00 Session : Jonathan A. Rodden - Grants versus taxes: Incentive effects for lower-level governments (Keynote)
Location: Brussels
12:00-13:00 Session : Lunch
Location: Meeting Hall
13:00-15:00 Session S: Special Session - OECD Fiscal Federalism Network
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Location: Brussels
13:00 | Regional GDP in OECD countries: how has inequality developed over time? ( abstract ) |
13:25 | Fiscal decentralisation and regional disparities ( abstract ) |
13:50 | Fiscal decentralisation and income inequality ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Intergovernmental grants, pro- or counter-cyclical? ( abstract ) |
14:40 | Fiscal equalisation in OECD countries: main policy issues ( abstract ) |
15:00-15:30 Session : Coffee break
Location: Meeting Hall
15:30-17:00 Session 6A: Corporate Taxation II
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Location: Room 1
15:30 | Lowering Corporate Tax Rates to Compete over Profits: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight? ( abstract ) |
16:00 | On the interdependency of profit-shifting channels and the effectiveness of anti-avoidance legislation ( abstract ) |
16:30 | Corporate Taxes and the Location of U.S. Trademarks ( abstract ) |
15:30-17:00 Session 6B: Preferences and Compliance in Taxation
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Location: Heinz-König-Hall
15:30 | Taking Culture Into Account(ing): Cross-Country Differences in Preferences and Taxation ( abstract ) |
16:00 | The Effects of Compliance Reminders on Tax Payments; Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Greece ( abstract ) |
16:30 | Well-Being Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the US ( abstract ) |
17:00-17:10 Session : Closing Remarks
Location: Meeting Hall