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Monday, November 9, 2009
 
 
EVENTS
Tax Havens and Foreign Direct Investment
AEI—INTERNATIONAL TAX POLICY FORUM SEMINAR; With a Keynote Address by Congressman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
Date: Monday, December 11, 2006
Time: 8:50 AM — 1:30 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

At this conference, panelists will consider the distinguishing characteristics of “tax haven” countries, the use of tax havens by U.S. and foreign investors, and the economic impacts of tax havens on high-tax countries. Unilateral and multilateral policy responses will be discussed, including presentations by Bill Thomas, chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Mean Committee; Jeffrey Owens, director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Center for Tax Policy and Administration; and Michel Aujean, the European Commission’s director for tax policy. 

 
Agenda
8:30 a.m.
 
Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
 
 
8:50
Opening Remarks:
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
 
 
John Samuels, General Electric
  
 
 
9:00
Panel I: Tax Havens Old and New
 
 
 
 
Panelists:
James Hines, University of Michigan
 
 
Paul Oosterhuis, Skadden Arps
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
Michael Graetz, Yale University Law School
 
 
 
9:50  
 
Panel II: Economic Effects of Tax Havens
 
 
 
 
Panelists:
Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School
 
 
Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
 
 
Martin Sullivan, Tax Analysts
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
Alan Auerbach, University of California at Berkeley
 
 
 
10:50  
Break
 
 
 
 
11:10  
 
Panel III: Policy Responses to Tax Havens
 
 
 
 
Panelists:
Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers University
 
 
Michel Aujean, European Commission
 
 
Will Morris, General Electric
 
 
Jeffrey Owens, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
R. Glenn Hubbard, AEI and Columbia University
 
 
 
12:30 p.m.
 
Luncheon and Keynote Address
 
 
 
Introduction:
R. Glenn Hubbard, AEI and Columbia University
 
 
 
 
Speaker:
The Honorable Bill Thomas, chairman, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee
 
 
 
1:30  

Adjournment

 
 
 
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