Monday, August 31^st

13:00 – 13:30  Registration + Welcome

13:30 – 14:15  Mazhar Waseem (University of Manchester)
“At What Cost? Curtailing Tax Evasion in the Digital World”
Discussant: Giacomo Brusco (Universitat de Barcelona)

14:15 – 15:30  Flash Talks

• Cova Machicado (LSE) — “Wealth Tax Elasticities and Capital Allocation”
• Francesco Capozza (Universitat de Barcelona) — “Science by Consensus: Eliciting Citizens’ and Experts’ R&D Spending Priorities”
• Jan Palguta (CUNEF) — “The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Tax Monitoring”

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45  Antoine Levy (UC Berkeley)
“Pensioners Without Borders”
Discussant: Javier Soria (Paris School of Economics)

16:45 – 17:30  Jakob Miethe (LMU Munich)
“The distribution of profit shifting”
Discussant: Sofia Balladares (Universitat de Barcelona)

17:30 – 18:00  Break

18:00 – 19:00  IEA Keynote on Tax Decentralization: Katarzyna Bilicka (Utah State University)

20:00  Dinner  (for presenters and discussants)

Tuesday, September 1^st

09:30 – 10:30  IPERC Keynote: David Seim (Stockholm University)

10:30 – 10:45  Short break

10:45 – 11:30  Francisco Cavalcanti (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – PIMES)
“Show me your PIX: The Impact of Electronic Payment Technologies on Tax Collection”
Discussant: Miguel Almunia (CUNEF Universidad)

11:30 – 12:00  Break

12:00 – 13:15  Flash Talks

• Darío Serrano-Puente (Banco de España) — “Housing Benefits in the Rental Market: Evidence from Linked Landlord-Tenant Data”
• Giacomo Brusco (Universitat de Barcelona) — “The Impact of VAT on Exports”
• Javier Soria (Paris School of Economics) — “Who Benefits From First-Home Gift Tax Incentives? Wealth Accumulation & Distributional Incidence”

13:15 – 14:30  Lunch

14:30 – 15:15  Juan Rios (PUC Rio)
“Optimal Pension Reforms: An Application to the Brazilian Administrative Data”
Discussant: Francesco Capozza (Universitat de Barcelona)

15:15 – 16:00  Eva Davoine (UC Berkeley)
“Negotiating Taxes”
Discussant: Alba Vazquez Garcia (PSE)

16:00 – 16:45  Marius Ring (Yale)
“Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025”
Discussant: Isabel Micó (Banco de España)

16:45 – 17:00  Closing remarks

17:00  Tardeo (unofficial)

Organizers

• Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College London)
• Isabel Micó Millán (Bank of Spain)
• Miguel Almunia (CUNEF University)
• Dirk Foremny (University of Barcelona)

Logistics

Venue: Universitat de Barcelona (Historical Building), Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 — Metro: Universitat

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