18 January 2024

14:00-16:00:
Chair: Ekkehart Reimer (Universität Heidelberg)
Benoît Majerus (University of Luxembourg)/Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po – Paris) – Introduction
Matthieu Leimgruber (Universität Zürich) – Tax lawyers of the world, unite! Mitchell B. Carroll (1898-1987), transnational tax networks and international capital
Thibaud Giddey (Universität Zürich) – Facilitating the setting up of foreign banks in
Switzerland: board members as influential intermediaries (1950s-1970s)

16:30-18:00:
Chair: Charlotte Bartels (DIW Berlin)
May Hen-Smith (University of Cambridge) – Distributed Ledgers
Vanessa Ogle (Yale University) – Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The Group of Four’s
efforts to curtail multinational tax avoidance, 1970s-1980s.

19 January 2024

09:00-10:30:
Chair: Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics/EHESS, Wiko Berlin)
Kristine Saevold (Norwegian Tax Administration) - ‘Loophole Capitalism’: a legacy of tax haven platforms and offshore finance of the 1960s and 1970s
Gisela Hürlimann (Universität Dresden) – Tax Haven Reoriented? The Emergence of International Tax Governance from a “Swiss” Perspective

11:00-12:30:
Chair: Alexander Nützenadel (Universität Humboldt, Berlin)
Marc Buggeln (Universität Flensburg) - The International Fiscal Association: The German section and the Turn to Neoliberalism
Korinna Schönhärl (Universität Paderborn) – Tax guide books and the norms of paying taxes in the 1970s and 1980s: a transnational analysis

14:00-16:00:
Chair: Ralf Ahrens (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)
Thijs Busschots (EU Tax Observatory) – Finding shell companies
Katerina Pantazatou (University of Luxembourg) – Opportunities, pitfalls, and emerging powers in the changing tax law landscape
Glenda Sluga (EUI Florence) - Conclusion