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Home >  Events >  Assessing the Effects of Corporate Taxation
Assessing the Effects of Corporate Taxation
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Start:  Monday, March 17, 2008  9:00 AM
End:  Monday, March 17, 2008  3:15 PM
Location:  Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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Many countries have restructured their corporate income taxes in recent years, mainly through reductions in tax rates. These international changes have put pressure on the United States to reform its corporate tax, little changed since 1986. Should the United States follow these overseas trends? At this seminar, eminent economists and tax experts will examine the impact of the current U.S. corporate income tax on corporate behavior and on national economic prosperity.

This event is cosponsored by the Forum for Analysis of Corporate Taxation.

8:45 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
 
 
 
 
9:00   
Welcome:
Robin Beran, Caterpillar Inc.
 
 
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
9:05   
Panel I:
Effects of Recent Tax Law Changes on Corporate Investment
 
 
 
 
Presenter:
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
Robert Carroll, American University and Tax Foundation
 
 
Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
R. Glenn Hubbard, AEI and Columbia University
 
 
 
9:45
Panel II:
Effects of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
 
 
 
 
Presenter: 
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
William M. Gentry, Williams College
 
 
Jane G. Gravelle, Congressional Research Service
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
 R. Glenn Hubbard, AEI and Columbia University 
 
 
 
10:30  
 Break
 
 
 
 
11:00   
Panel III:
Corporate Taxation and Corporate Borrowing 
 
 
 
 
Presenter:
Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
Mihir A. Desai, Harvard Business School
 
 
Eric J. Toder, Urban Institute
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley
 
 
 
11:45   
Panel IV:
Corporate Taxes and Wages 
 
 
 
 
Presenter:
Fritz Foley, Harvard Business School
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute
 
 
William C. Randolph, Congressional Budget Office
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley
 
 
 
12:30 p.m.
Panel V:
Luncheon Discussion of Corporate Tax Reform
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, Peterson Institute and John McCain 2008
 
 
Jonathan Talisman, Capitol Tax Partners
 
 
 
 
Moderator: 
Gerald F. Seib, Wall Street Journal 
 
 
 
1:45   
Panel VI:
Corporate Taxes and International Portfolio Investment   
 
 
 
 
Presenter:
Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Connecticut
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
Harry Grubert, U.S. Department of the Treasury
 
 
Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers University
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
 
 
 
2:30   
Panel VII:
Understanding the Recent Patterns of Net Operating Losses 
 
 
 
 
Presenter:
Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers University
 
 
 
 
Discussants:
Thomas A. Barthold, Joint Committee on Taxation
 
 
James R. Hines, Jr., University of Michigan
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
 
 
 
3:15  
Adjournment
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Scott Ganz
American Enterprise Institute
 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20036
Phone: 202-862-4873
E-mail: scott.ganz@aei.org

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American Enterprise Institute
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Washington, DC  20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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Panel I-Auerbach, Chaney and Hassett, Dividend Taxes, Partial Expensing and Business Fixed Investment  
Panel II-Shleifer, The effect of corporate taxes on investment and entrepreneurship  
Panel III-Gordon, Taxation and Corporate Use of Debt  
Panel IV-Desai, Foley and Hines, Labor and Capital Shares of the Corporate Tax Burden  
Panel VI-Desai and Dharmapala, Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities  
Panel VII-Altshuler, Auerbach, Cooper and Knittel, Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses