IBC Lecture Focused on International Taxes and Their Effects on Trade, Investment

International taxes and the evolution of multinational enterprises were the topics of discussion during the IBC Bank & Commerce Bank 2024–2025 Keynote Speaker Series. 

Dr. Lorraine Eden, Professor Emerita of Management and Adjunct Professor of Law at Texas A&M University,  presented her lecture, "Taxing Multinationals: Hic Sunt Dracones (Turbulent Times Ahead)!" on Wednesday, Oct. 16,  in the Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) Student Center Ballroom. 

Admission was free of charge and open to the public.

The presentation was also broadcast live via Microsoft Teams at https://go.tamiu.edu/eden.

The lecture was made possible through the TAMIU A. R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business and the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade as part of a series sponsored by IBC Bank and Commerce Bank.

Dr. Eden's lecture focused on how multinational enterprises are being taxed in light of additional proposals to tax these enterprises differently. While the policy debates are happening globally, their effects will be felt worldwide, including trade and investment throughout the U.S. and Texas.

Eden is a member of the 2022–2025 United Nations Subcommittee on Transfer Pricing and an affiliated expert with the Analysis Group. Her work primarily focuses on transfer pricing or pricing-controlled transactions between associated enterprises through this organization.

While at Texas A&M, she has taught courses on transfer pricing and the economics of international business, among others. Eden's research primarily focuses on multinational enterprises' strategies and structures in the global economy. As one of the founding scholars of transfer pricing economics, she was ranked among the top two percent of the world's most-cited research authors.

Dr. Eden  has been a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a Pew Fellow at Harvard University, and a Dunning Research Professor at the University of Reading, U.K. She holds degrees in economics from Mount Allison, McGill, and Dalhousie Universities.

For more information, contact Jessica M. Cavazos, program specialist, Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade, at 956.326.2821, email cswht@tamiu.edu, or visit offices in Western Hemispheric Trade Center, room 221. Additional information is also available at tamiu.edu/cswht.

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