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 TAXING CORPORATE INCOME IN THE 21ST CENTURY
 
A conference jointly sponsored by the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan and the Burch Center at the University of California, Berkeley


Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
May 5-6, 2005

TENTATIVE AGENDA:
 
THURSDAY, MAY 5
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Introductory Remarks

-- Session I --
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Did the Dividend Tax Cut of 2003 Change the Market
Response to Dividend Announcements?
RAJ CHETTY
University of California, Berkeley
JOSEPH ROSENBERG
University of California, Berkeley
EMMANUEL SAEZ
University of California, Berkeley
  Discussants:
GUSTAVO GRULLON
Rice University
DOUGLAS SKINNER
University of Michigan
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Taxes and Dividend Payouts: Evidence from Recent UK Tax Reforms
ALEXANDER KLEMM
Institute for Fiscal Studies
STEVE BOND
Institute for Fiscal Studies
MICHAEL DEVEREUX
University of Warwick
  Discussants:
ROGER GORDON
University of California, San Diego
JAMES POTERBA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

-- Session II --
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The Corporate Response to the 2003 Act: Did the
“Old View” or the “New View” Win Out?
ALAN AUERBACH
University of California, Berkeley
KEVIN HASSETT
American Enterprise Institute
  Discussants:
WILLIAM GALE
Brookings Institution
GEORGE ZODROW
Rice University
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. New Evidence on the Incidence of the Corporate Tax
JONATHAN GRUBER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JOSHUA RAUH
University of Chicago
  Discussants:
JANE GRAVELLE
Congressional Research Service
CASEY MULLIGAN
University of Chicago
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Corporate Tax Noncompliance
MICHELLE HANLON
University of Michigan
LILLIAN MILLS
University of Arizona
JOEL SLEMROD
University of Michigan
  Discussant:
JOSEPH BANKMAN
Stanford University
BRIAN ERARD
B. Erard and Associates
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Reception
5:30 p.m. Dinner
   
FRIDAY, MAY 6

-- Session III --
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Lessons from State Corporate Tax Trends
WILLIAM F. FOX
University of Tennessee
  Discussants:
WILLIAM GENTRY
Williams College
CHARLES McLURE
Stanford University
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Corporate Income Tax Reforms and International Tax
Competition
JAMES HINES
University of Michigan
  Discussants:
JACK MINTZ
University of Toronto
JOHN WILSON
Michigan State University
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Corporate Accounting,
Tax Reporting, and Real Behavior
EDWARD MAYDEW
University of North Carolina
DOUGLAS SHACKELFORD
University of North Carolina
  Discussants:
DHAMMIKA DHARMAPALA
University of Connecticut
RICHARD SANSING
Dartmouth College
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Break
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Governance and Taxation
MIHIR DESAI
Harvard University
  Discussants:
JEFFREY BROWN
University of Illinois
STEVEN KAPLAN
University of Chicago
1:15 p.m. Adjourn