DemoTrans meets CORPTAX: Inequalities in Corporate Taxation and Public Procurement Workshop, 9 March 2023
As part of the DemoTrans project, CORPTAX organized a research workshop titled “Inequalities in Corporate Taxation and Public Procurement”. The workshop focused on recent work-in-progress research in economics and related fields, exploiting increased data quality due to recent transparency measures in corporate taxation and public procurement. The new research papers reveal the various inequalities in how much multinationals pay in taxes, how fairly public procurement markets work in practice, and what happens when corporate taxation and public procurement interact.
The online workshop took place on Thursday, 9 March 2023, from 14:00 to 17:00 CET via Zoom and was streamed live on YouTube. The recording is available below:
Workshop programme
| Time (all times in CET) | Speaker and topic | |
| Introduction | 14:00-14:10 | Kristof De Witte (KU Leuven), Petr Janský (CORPTAX) |
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Session 1 moderated by Miroslav Palanský (CORPTAX) |
14:10-14:25 | Kristin Dilani Nadarajah (CORPTAX): Increasing industry concentration and tax avoidance (with Matěj Bajgar, Petr Janský, and Tijmen Tuinsma) |
| 14:25-14:40 | Benny Geys (BI Norwegian Business School): Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Tax Havens | |
| 14:40-14:55 | Valeria Secchini (CORPTAX): Revealing the link between corporate structure and tax avoidance using higher-order Markov models (with Javier García-Bernardo) | |
| 14:55-15:10 | Marek Šedivý (CORPTAX): Corporate tax avoidance and within-country inequality (with Petr Janský) | |
| 15:10-15:30 | Discussion opened by Kristof De Witte (KU Leuven) | |
| Break | 15:30-15:40 | |
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Session 2 moderated by Vítězslav Titl (Utrecht University) |
15:40-15:55 | Pelle Berkhout (Utrecht University): Driving societal change through public procurement and pre-procurement power dynamics (with Anne Rainville, Matthijs Janssen, and Koen Frenken |
| 15:55-16:10 | Emilie Wojcieszynski (Utrecht University): Lobbying in the European Parliament (with Vítězslav Titl) | |
| 16:10-16:25 | Vítězslav Titl (Utrecht University): Favoritism in Public Procurement (with Bruno Baránek) | |
| 16:25-16:40 | Miroslav Palanský (CORPTAX): Public Procurement and Tax Havens (with Petr Janský and Jiří Skuhrovec) | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Discussion opened by Lucian Cernat (Head of Global Regulatory Cooperation and International Procurement Negotiations, European Commission) |