SELECTED RECENT PAPERS
"Shifting the Burden of Taxation from the Corporate to the Personal Level and Getting the Corporate Tax Rate Down to 15 Percent," (with Harry Grubert), June 2016 [PDF]
"Lessons the United States Can Learn from Other Countries' Territorial Systems for Taxing Income of Multinational Corporations," (with Stephen Shay and Eric Toder), January 2015 [PDF]
"The Spillover Effects of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Home Countries: Evidence from the United States," with Jitao Tang, January 2015 [PDF]
"Follow
the Leader? Evidence on European and U.S. Tax Competition," with Timothy
Goodspeed, April 2014 [PDF]
"Fixing the System: An Analysis of Alternative Proposals for the Reform of International Tax," (with Harry Grubert), April 2013 [PDF]
"Measuring
the Burden of the Corporate Income Tax under Imperfect Competition," with
Li Liu, April 2011 [PDF]
"Fiscal
Consolidation in America: The Policy Options," with Barry Bosworth, March
2011 [PDF]
"Reconsidering
Tax Expenditure Estimation: Challenges and Reforms," with Robert Dietz,
June 2008 [PDF]
"Capital
Income Taxation and Progressivity in a Global Economy," with Benjamin
Harris and Eric Toder, November 2010 [PDF]
"Formula
Apportionment: Is it Better than the Current System and are there Better
Alternatives?" with Harry Grubert, November 2008 [PDF]
"Desperately
Seeking Revenue," with Katherine Lim and Roberton Williams, June 2010 [PDF]
"Understanding
U.S. Corporate Tax Losses," with Alan J. Auerbach, Michael Cooper and
Matthew Knittel, October 2008 [PDF]
"Corporate
Taxes in the World Economy: Reforming the Taxation of Cross-Border
Income," with Harry Grubert, December 2006 [PDF]
"Constrained
Tax Reform: How Political and Economic Constraints Affect the Formation of Tax
Policy Proposals," with Jonathan Z. Ackerman, March 2006 [PDF]
"The
Three Parties in the Race to the Bottom: Host Governments, Home Governments and
Multinational Corporations," with Harry Grubert, March 2005 [PDF]
"The
Role of Dynamic Scoring in the Federal Budget Process: Closing the Gap Between
Theory and Practice," with Nicholas Bull, John Diamond, Tim Dowd and Pamela
Moomau, May 2005 [PDF]
"Taxpayer
Responses to Competitive Tax Policies and Tax Policy Responses to Competitive
Taxpayers: Recent Evidence," with Harry Grubert, February 2004 [PDF]
"The
Effect of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the Location of Assets in Financial
Services Firms," with R. Glenn Hubbard,
January 2003 [PDF]
"Repatriation
Taxes, Repatriation Strategies and Multinational Financial Policy," with
Harry Grubert, January 2003 [PDF]
"Where
Will They Go If We Go Territorial? Dividend Exemption and the Location
Decisions of U.S. Multinational Corporations," with Harry Grubert,
December 2002 [PDF]
"Has
U.S. Investment Abroad Become More Sensitive to Tax Rates?" with Harry
Grubert and T. Scott Newlon, January 2000 [PDF]
"Recent
Developments in the Debate on Deferral," February, 2000 [PDF]
"On
the Progressivity of the Child Care Tax Credit: Snapshot versus Time-Exposure
Incidence," with Amy Ellen Schwartz, March 1996 [PDF]
"U.S.
Interest Allocation Rules: Effects and
Policy," with Jack Mintz, 1995 [PDF]
"Tax
Planning, Timing Effects and the Impact of Repatriation Taxes on Dividend
Remittances," with T. Scott Newlon and William Randolph, January 1995 [PDF]
"Do
Repatriation Taxes Matter? Evidence from the Tax Returns of U.S.
Multinationals," with T. Scott Newlon and William Randolph, January 1995 [PDF]
"Dynamic
Effects of Foreign Tax Credits on Multinational Corporations," with Paolo Fulghieri, June 1994 [PDF]
"The
Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on the Income Repatriation Patterns of U.S.
Multinational Corporations," with T. Scott Newlon, December 1991 [PDF]
"The
Significance of Tax Law Asymmetries: An Empirical Investigation," with
Alan J. Auerbach, February 1990 [PDF]
"A
Dynamic Analysis of the Research and Experimentation Credit," December
1988 [PDF]
OP-EDS
"Cut
the Mortgage Interest Deduction," NYTimes.com, November 14, 2010 [PDF]
"Five
Myths About Income Taxes," with Roberton Williams, Washington Post, April
5, 2010 [PDF]
GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY
Senate Finance Committee, "Hearing on Building a Competitive Tax System," Washington, DC, March 17,
2015 [PDF]
Senate Finance Committee, "Hearing
on Extenders and Tax Reform: Seeking Long-Term Solutions," Washington, DC, January 31,
2012 [PDF]
House Ways and Means Committee,
"Hearing on Tax Reform and Consumption-Based Tax Systems,"
Washington, DC, July 26, 2011 [PDF]
Senate Committee on the Budget,
"Hearing on Tax Reform: A Necessary Component for Restoring
Fiscal Responsibility," Washington, DC, February 2, 2011 [PDF]