Venice Summer Institute


	Venice Summer Institute Workshop on Taxation of Multinational Firms Venice International University, San Servolo, 16 - 17 July 2008
	Programme
	Wednesday, 16 July 2008
9.00 - 10.00	Do Trade Policy Diffferences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence From Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters KALA KRISHNA, Hiau Looi Kee and Svetlana Demidova

10.00 - 10.45	Fiscal Competition and Offshoring CLEMENS FUEST and Johannes Becker Discussant: Maximilian von Ehrlich
10.45	Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.00	The Distorting Arm's Length Principle in International Transfer Pricing CHRISTIAN KEUSCHNIGG and Michael Devereux Discussant: Michael Stimmelmayr
12.00 - 12.45	Multinational Firms: Heterogeneity in Tax Responsiveness: the Role of Transfer Pricing GREGORY CORCOS and Céline Azémar Discussant: Doina Radulescu
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 14.45	Labour Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment DOINA MARIE RADULESCU and Peter Egger Discussant: Oscar Amerighi
14.45 - 15.30	Corporate Taxes and Alternative Modes of FDI STEVE MCCORRISTON, Nils Herger and Christos Kotsogiannis Discussant: Johannes Becker
15.30	Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.45	Multinationals' Capital Structures, Thin Capitalization Rules, and Corporate Tax Competition ANDREAS HAUFLER and Marco Runkel Discussant: Rainer Niemann
16.45 - 17.30	Corporate Taxes, Profit Shifting and the Location of Intangibles within Multinational Firms, NADINE RIEDEL and Matthias Dischinger Discussant: Nils Herger
19.30	Dinner
	Thursday, 17 July 2008
9.00 - 10.00	MIHIR DESAI to be confirmed
10.00 - 10.45	Book-tax Conformity: Implications for Multinational Firms MICHELLE HANLON and Edward Maydew Discussant: Simon Loretz
10.45	Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.00	An Economic Assessment of Tax Base Harmonisation Proposals in the EU RUUD DE MOOIJ Discussant: Marcel Gérard
12.00 - 12.45	The Dynamics of Corporate Tax Setting in Europe, 1984 - 2006 JOHANNES RINCKE and Michael Overesch Discussant: Johannes Voget

12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 14.45	Corporate Tax Competition and the Decline of Public Investment PEDRO GOMES and François Pouget Discussant: Darko Jus
14.45 - 15.30	Relative Size, Distance and the Fiscal Competition for Foreign Direct Investments MAURO GHINAMO Discussant: Peter Egger
15.30	Close

Venice Summer Institute Workshop on

Taxation of Multinational Firms

Venice International University, San Servolo, 16 - 17 July 2008

Programme

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Thursday, 17 July 2008

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