📅 27–28 August 2026
📍 National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin, D02 V583
🎟 Registration €100 (PhD €40, discounts available): ti.to/ipew/ipew-2026
Thursday 27 August Day One
9:30–10:00Registration and Coffee
10:00–11:00
Flash Talks
Chair: Barra Roantree (TCD)
Michael McRae (TCD): Who Speaks for Housing? Democratic Participation and Planning Delay
Eoin Corrigan (Department of Housing): Intergenerational Dependence on Social Housing
Niall Conroy (IFAC): Boston or Berlin? How does Ireland's tax and spending compare?
Keith Kehoe (TCD): Who pays if the windfall ends? Income tax reform and distributional effects for Ireland's debt sustainability
Frank Wolfe (ESRI/TCD): Taxing the Top in Mexico: How High Earners Responded to the 2014 Income Tax Reform
Brian Cronin (IFAC): How might US tariffs and other policy changes affect Ireland's corporation tax receipts?
11:00–11:30Coffee Break
11:30–12:30
Firms
Chair: Nora Strecker (UCD)
Jakob Miethe (LMU Munich): The Distribution of Profit Shifting
Karolis Matikonis (UCD): Administrative Design, Reporting Capacity, and the Equity Implications of R&D Tax Credit Access: Evidence from UK SMEs
12:30–13:15Lunch
13:15–14:45
Wealth, Savings, and Retirement
Chair: Tara McIndoe-Calder (ESRI)
Ludmila Fadejeva (Latvijas Banka): How Tax Incentives Shape Long-Term Saving: Evidence from Latvia's 2017–2018 Reforms
Libor Melioris (TCD): Wealth Distribution and Mobility in Ireland: A Long-Run Perspective
Mia Teschner-Hofmann (DIW Berlin, FU Berlin, BSE): Working Longer: The Effects of a Higher Retirement Age on Work-Related Health Investments
14:45–15:05Coffee Break
15:05–16:35
Tax and Subsidies
Chair: Enda Hargaden (UCD)
Christian Traxler (Hertie School): The Effect of Vehicle Taxes on Fleet Exit
Boryana Madzharova (Central Bank of Ireland): Income Tax Credits for Consumer Services: A Way to Tackle Informal Work?
Kieran Byrne (Queen Mary University of London): Technology, tax, and domestic trade: Evidence from Rwanda's electronic invoicing expansion
19:00Dinner for organisers and presenters
Friday 28 August Day Two
9:30–11:00
Political Economy
Chair: Nora Strecker (UCD)
Iris Wohnsiedler (ESRI): Signals on Budget Day: Political Pressure, Media Attention and Public Beliefs in Ireland
Ron Davies (UCD): Space Pirates: The Political Economy of Subsidizing Space Commerce
Niccolò Meriggi (University of Oxford): Building Fiscal Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone
11:00–11:30Coffee Break
11:30–13:00
Recessions and Fiscal Policy
Chair: Barra Roantree (TCD)
Joseph Kopecky (TCD): HANKs fr th Mmrs (Even If They Weren't So Great): The Distributional Cost of Recessions in a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian Model with Search Frictions and Human Capital
Jesse Bricker (Federal Reserve Board): The evolution of deficits in the United States and implications for debt sustainability
Byron Lutz (Federal Reserve Board): The Stimulative Effect of State Tax Cuts Across the Income Distribution
13:00–14:00Lunch
14:00–15:00
Keynote Lecture
Prof. James R. Hines, Jr. (University of Michigan): Wicked Double Taxes.
15:00–15:30Coffee
15:30–16:30
Optimal Taxation and Statutory Incidence
Chair: Tara McIndoe-Calder (ESRI)
Enda Hargaden (UCD): Statutory Incidence and Foreign Tax Credits
Johannes Becker (University of Münster): Optimal taxation of entrepreneurial income and capital
16:30Concluding remarks and close
