The 2019 Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) Annual Conference

CfP Deadline Date: November 2, 2018 Conference Event: May 28-30, 2019 Event Location: Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, Savannah, GA, USA Keynote Speaker(s):  Ross Levine, Berkeley Organizer(s): Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) is pleased to announce that its next conference will be held in Savannah, USA, on[…]

Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy

CfP Deadline Date: October 29, 2018 Conference Event: April 12-13, 2019 Event Location: New York University, New York, USA Keynote Speaker(s):  tba Organizer(s): / The Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy is now soliciting papers for a conference on “On the Border of International Cooperation”. The conference will be held at New York University on April[…]

WEAI 15th International Conference

CfP Deadline Date: October 15, 2018 Conference Event: March 21-24, 2019 Event Location: Tokyo, Japan Keynote Speaker(s):  Peter Diamond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Robert Engle (New York University); John Shoven (Stanford University); Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean (Asian Development Bank Institute) Organizer(s): WEAI Present a Paper| Deadline October 15, 2018 Cancellations: Paper submission portion of participation fee[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: Banks Defy Gravity in Tax Havens

Authors: Vincent Bouvatier, Gunther Capelle-blancard, and Anne-Laure Delatte Date: September 2018 Abstract: This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of the contribution of global banks in intermediating tax evasion. Applying gravity equations on a unique regulatory dataset based on comprehensive individual country-by-country reporting from all the Systemically Important Banks the European Union, we find that:[…]

September 2018: New VoxEU Column – Banks defy gravity

Vincent Bouvatier, Gunther Capelle-Blancard, Anne-Laure Delatte, 11 September 2018 Tax havens are estimated to concentrate 8% of global private financial wealth, reducing annual global tax revenues by about $200 billion. This column uses new country-by-country regulatory data on the foreign commercial presence of EU banks and compares it against gravity model predictions to examine the[…]