EVENTS

Our third RSIT conference will take place at the in the castle Hohentübingen, University of Tübingen. It will include presentations by our PIs as well as several guest speakers. James R. Hines Jr., a professor of economics at the University of Michigan will give a keynote lecture on "Tax competition and BEPS 2.0".

Our first RSIT conference took place at the in the castle Hohentübingen, University of Tübingen. It included presentations by all PIs as well as the doctoral students working on the different sub-projects. Rita de la Feria, a professor of tax law and an international research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation, gave a keynote lecture on  "BEPS challenges of digitalisation, anti-avoidance rules and global tax fairness".

The RSIT's PhD students are located at several universities across Germany. At the PhD workshop in Tübingen, the students met and got to know each other in person for the first time. Each student was provided the opportunity to present their work to their peers as well as Professors and Postdocs of the RSIT. The schedule left plenty of room for valuable feedback and discussions. In addition to the research-based presentations, our PhD students enjoyed the informal exchanges among each other and with the PIs during coffee breaks, and the joint dinner. During the first day we also held a women's brunch.

Fostering the next generation of researchers is a big part of advancing the state of knowledge in economics. Our PhD workshop saw our current PhD students presenting their current research to the rest of the research unit, receiving valuable feedback in the process. PhD students also attended a workshop by our junior professors, who were able to share advice on the international job market based on their recent experience.

In March 2021, Dr. Matthew McKay and Dr. Chase Coleman provided a Python workshop at the RSIT. They did a great job introducing tools for data management, connecting Python with Stata 16, and looking into web scrapping and other useful techniques for gathering data online. Matthew and Chase are both part of QuantEcon, an organization dedicated to improving economic modelling by enhancing computational tools for economists.

Georg Wamser explains why it makes sense for governments to put a price on carbon emissions, from an economics point of view. (Event organized by Global Marshall Plan Tübingen and Bürgerlobby Klimaschutz).

Leslie Robinson offered a very interesting three-day lecture on international tax research with a specific focus on profit shifting in June 2019. The students became acquainted with recent methods and data sources for measuring BEPS. We all enjoyed the background discussion on the U.S. Tax Reform (especially the discussion on the behavioural effects of the GILTI provision) which was very informative and we thank Leslie for three great days of lecture!

On October 18, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest, President of the ifo Institute for Economic Research, gave a talk on "European Tax Policy for the 21st Century". In his talk he highlighted the challenges of international taxation and also addressed the role of taxing the digital economy.

On April 13 2018, the first Tübingen-Hohenheim Orbis User Conference took place in Tübingen. Students working with the Orbis database presented their ongoing work. Special thanks to Prof. Peter Egger (ETH Zürich) who gave a very interesting keynote lecture!

 More than 40 (young) economists from six  universities participated in the PhD conference on "Tax Policy in the Global Economy", held in October 2017.