Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Past Conferences
The principal objectives of the conferences are to stimulate relevant policy and empirical research in economic science, to encourage interchange of scientific ideas among analysts with different approaches, and to generate greater understanding by academic economists of practitioners' environments.
Each conference is organized around a particular theme or topic with papers prepared by leading scholars with expertise in the area. Participants are united by their interest in the issues discussed and by their belief that analysis, evidence, and informed discussion have lasting effects on the public and its institutions.
2018 Conference on Tax Reform: Implications for Growth, Inequality, and Welfare
November 9-10, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
Recent U.S. tax legislation has been passed in the context of sluggish growth in U.S. median incomes and rising income inequality. Papers presented at the 2018 Carnegie-Rochester-NYU conference explored the implications of corporate tax reform for entrepreneurial activity and investment, the impact of state tax exemption reform on the location choices of top earners, and the disparate impact of federal tax hikes across states. The papers presented at the conference will be published in the July 2019 issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Conference Session 1
Chair: Christopher Sleet
- Loss-Offset Provisions in the Corporate Tax Code and the Misallocation of Capital
Authors: Baris Kaymak and Immo Schott
Discussant: Venky Venkateswaran - Heads I Win, Tails You Loose: Asymmetric Taxes, Risk Taking and Innovation
Authors: James Albertus, Brent Glover, Oliver Levine
Discussant: Eva Carceles
Conference Session 2
Chair: Ali Shourideh
- The Impact of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act on the Spatial Distribution of High Productivity Households
Authors: Daniele Coen-Pirani and Holger Sieg
Discussant: Rebecca Lessem - State Level Implications of Federal Tax Policies
Authors: Chang Liu and Noah Williams
Discussant: Karel Mertens
Conference Session 3
Chair: Laurence Ales
- Reviving American Entrepreneurship? Tax Reform and Business Dynamism
Authors: Petr Sedlacek and Vincent Sterk
Discussant: Gian Luca Clementi - Taxation and the Life-Cycle of Firms
Authors: Andres Erosa and Beatrix Gonzalez
Discussant: Sebastian Dyrda
