In today's global economy, countries constantly compete for corporations' research activities. U.S. tax policy lags behind many countries in attracting firms' R&D centers. With the increased mobility of research and intellectual property, this conference will focus on how countries should tax innovative, answering important questions for countries seeking to promote economic growth.

The first order of business for a Republican president next year should be corporate-tax reform. But even if Republicans win big in the fall, undoing America's largest policy error will be an almost impossible political lift, unless enough people in both parties come to grips with the counterintuitive economics of corporate-tax reform.

President Obama’s budget speech on Monday expanded on the theme of economic “fairness,” like his State of the Union speech in January. He lectured Americans that if critical steps are not taken, the rise of the middle class will be threatened and disparities between the rich and the rest will...

Contrary to protectionist rhetoric, U.S. firms that create employment abroad also help the domestic job market.

While economies all over the globe are facing tough times, Russia's symptoms appear to be particularly acute. The current financial crisis closed the Russian stock exchange on multiple occasions, and Russia's stock market plummeted to one-third of its value in June. The price of oil, Russia's prime export commodity and...

The United States has not cut its corporate tax rates since 1993 and has been left behind while the rest of the developed world races to cut rates and attract investment. To promote economic growth, help workers and increase revenues, we need an "effective" tax reform sooner rather than later.

Neither the CBO nor the Treasury's assumptions--that capital bears 100 percent or that no one bears the tax--are valid. Both approaches fail to reflect recent empirical and theoretic research that finds workers bear a large portion of the burden of the CIT.

Please note that this event on the Russian Economy has been cancelled. We will send an e-mail notification if this event is rescheduled for a later date.

In 2003, on the heels of an incredible economic recovery, Russian president Vladimir Putin pledged to double Russia’s GDP within a decade....