Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Ufuk Akcigit, Salomé Baslandze, Stefanie Stantcheva

NBER Working Paper No. 21024
Issued in March 2015, Revised in October 2015

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We thank Jeremy Greenwood, Dirk Krueger, Jim Poterba, Emmanuel Saez, Ivan Werning, participants at the MIT Public Finance lunch and the Penn \Growth Reading Group" for useful comments and feedback. We thank Olof Ejermo, William Kerr, Francesco Lissoni, Ernest Miguelez, Valerio Sterzi, Myriam Mariani, Alfonso Gambardella for sharing their data. Akcigit gratefully acknowledges financial support from Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation and from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. We thank Jacob R. Dorabialski for help with the analysis. We especially thank Nina Roussille for outstanding research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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