Jake A. Smith

• Financial Economist
  
  Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
  
  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  
  2023-present
• Teaching Assistant/Instructor
  
  Naveen Jindal School of Management
  
  The University of Texas at Dallas
  
  2017-2022
• Pricing Analyst
  
  U.S. Strategic Pricing
  
  FedEx Services
  
  2016-2017

• Meier, Jean-Marie, Jake Smith, and Sorabh Tomar, 2025, The Tax Benefits of Acquired Versus Organic Tax-Haven Subsidiaries. DERA Working Paper.
• Meier, Jean-Marie, Jake Smith, and Christoph Schneider, 2025, The Outsized Role of Tax Havens in Mergers and Acquisitions. Working Paper.
• Meier, Jean-Marie and Jake Smith, 2025, Improving the Measurement of Tax Residence: Implications for Research on Corporate Taxation. Working Paper.
• Smith, Jake, 2023, Climate Change Salience and Firm Investment. Working Paper.
• Meier, Jean-Marie and Jake Smith, 2021, The COVID-19 Bailouts. Working Paper.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

• Paper presentation (by coauthor), NTA's 118th Annual Conference on Taxation.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), 31st Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance Conference on “The Division of Tax Revenue in a Globalized World,” 2025.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), Financial Intermediation Research Society 2024.
• Paper presentation, NTA's 116th Annual Conference on Taxation.
• Paper presentation, 79th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), Seventh Annual M&A Research Centre Conference.
• Paper presentation, Fifth Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference.
• Paper presentation, SFS Cavalcade 2023.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), 12th EIASM Conference on Current Research in Taxation.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), 2022 ZEW Public Finance Conference.
• Paper presentation, Paris December 2021 Finance Meeting.
• Paper presentation (by coauthor), 2021 FOM Conference.
• Paper presentation, 7th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability."
• Paper presentation, China International Conference in Finance 2021.
• Paper presentation, SFS Cavalcade 2021.
• Paper presentation, Midwest Finance Association 2021.
• Paper presentation, Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 2020.
• Paper presentation, European Economic Association 2020.
• Paper presentation, 10th EIASM Conference on Current Research in Taxation.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2023.
• University of North Texas, 2023.