One week, two conferences!
Nico Marienfeld was back “on tour” collecting feedback for his research project “Compliance Costs of Corporate R&D Tax Incentives” (joint with Maximilian Todtenhaupt):
- Annual Conference of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.) (Sept 14–17, Cologne)
Topic: “Revival of Industrial Policy” – some key takeaways:
-Industrial policy is more than subsidies – it requires activity-specific inputs. We need a modern political economy that constructively confronts today’s challenges.
-Balancing political legitimacy with technocratic independence in implementation remains crucial.
- Annual MannheimTaxation Conference at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (Sept 18–19, Mannheim)
Some key takeaways:
-Challenging the status quo in research is difficult – even widely used methods may have flaws.
-Public finance needs approaches that capture incidence, leakage, and welfare trade-offs. Structural models combined with event studies provide policy-relevant evidence for large-scale regulation.
