MPI TAX
Vortrag | 29.04.2010 - 30.04.2010 | 10:00
The Taxation of Foreign Profits – The Role of Firm Heterogeneity
Thursday, April 29, 2010
13:30 - 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 14:15 Workshop Opening
14:15 – 15:00 Taxation of Foreign Profits – A Synthesis of Arguments
Clemens Fuest, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
Comment: Andreas Haufler, University of Munich
15:00 – 15:45 Tax Status and Tax Response Heterogeneity of Multinationals’ Debt Financetarget="_blank"
Thiess Büttner, University of Munich
Comment: Johannes Voget, University of Heidelberg
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Tax Competition in a Simple Model with Heterogeneous Firms: How Large Markets Reduce Profit Taxes
Andreas Haufler, University of Munich
Comment: Sebastian Krautheim, Paris School of Economics
16:45 – 17:30 Heterogeneous Firms, 'Profit-Shifting' FDI and International Tax Competition
Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr, European University Institute Florence
Comment: Nelly Exbrayat, Université d’Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand
17:30 – 17:45 Break
17:45 – 18:30 The Silver Lining of Red Tape
Ron Davies, University College Dublin
Comment: Kai Konrad, MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
20:00 Presentation of the Max Planck Research Center for Tax Law and Public Finance and conference dinner
Friday, April 30, 2010
9:00 – 9:45 Taxation of Foreign Profits with Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
Johannes Becker, MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Comment: Ronald B. Davies, University College Dublin
9:45 – 10:30 Bilateral Internal Debt Financing, Tax Planning, and the Effectiveness of Anti-Avoidance Rules
Michael Overesch, University of Mannheim
Comment: Nadja Dwenger, MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Determining Taxable Income to Ensure Capital Ownership Neutrality
Martin Ruf, University of Mannheim
Comment: Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr, European University Institute Florence
11:30 – 12:15 Effects of Sectoral Incentives on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from East Asia
Johannes Voget, University of Heidelberg
Comment: Michael Overesch, University of Mannheim
12:15 – 12:30 Break
12:30 – 13:15 The Effects of Taxation on the Location Decision of Multinational Firms: M&A vs. Greenfield Investments
Alfons Weichenrieder, Goethe University Frankfurt
Comment: Carsten Eckel, University of Munich
13:15 Lunch and roundup discussion