The Tulane Property Roundtable brings together property scholars from around the country to discuss and debate important property issues pertaining to the regulation of private and public property rights. The roundtable showcases the works-in-progress of the participating scholars and encourages lively debate regarding the drafts.

This one-day conference, organized by the Murphy Institute and the Department of Economics at Tulane University, will explore new research on state and local tax reforms, including empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions, in the face of increasing challenges in areas such as the growth of services and internet sales, increased tax competition, greater factor mobility across state (and national) boundaries, and other similar developments.

About the Speakers

• David Bradford (U of Georgia)
• David Chan (Stanford)
• Matthew Grennan (Wharton)
• Ben Handel (UC Berkeley)
• Chris Ruhm (U of Virginia)
• Ariel Stern (Harvard Business School)

8:45 am – 9:30 am
Presenter: James Alm (Tulane Economics)
Evaluating the Economic Effects of Flat Tax Reforms Using Synthetic Control Methods
(with Bibek Adhikari)
Discussant: Brian Galle (Georgetown)

9:30 am – 10:15 am
Presenter: Leigh Osofsky (Miami)
Simplexity and the Tax Law
(with Joshua Blank)
Discussant: Lawrence Zelenak (Duke)

10: 15 – 10:30 am
Break

8:30am COFFEE AND BREAKFAST
Tulane University Law School, Room 214

8:55am WELCOME REMARKS
Tulane University Law School, Room 214

9:00am THEME ONE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TECHNOLOGY, AND SHARING
Technoheritage
Sonia Katyal (University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

Intellectual Property and the Myth of Nonrivalry
James Y. Stern (William & Mary Law School)

10:40am BREAK

In the past year, or so, we have witnessed the emergence of active public politics on a variety of aspects of globalization—in particular, immigration and trade (as embodied in large scale PTAs). There has also been concern with financialization and its link to globalization. Areas of particular concern are distributional issues and concerns about the sustainability of progressive welfare state policies.

8:15 – 8:45 am
Breakfast

8:45 am – 9:30 am
Lily Batchelder (NYU)
Accounting for Behavioral Considerations in Business Tax Reform: The Case of Expensing
Discussant: Steve Sheffrin (Tulane)

9:30 am – 10:15 am
Daniel Hemel (Chicago)
The Federalist Safeguards of Progressive Taxation
Discussant: Lily Faulhaber (Georgetown)

10:15 – 10:30 am
Break

8:30‐9:45 The Problem of Large Shareholders
Discussant: Urska Velikonja

• Robert Jackson (Columbia), Activist Directors and Information Leakage
• Edward Rock (NYU), Defusing the Antitrust Threat to Institutional Investor Involvement in Corporate Governance

9:45‐11:00 The Problem of Small Shareholders
Discussant: Ann Lipton