Chun-Yan George
Kuo
Adjunct Professor
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Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada
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Phone: (613) 533-6556
Fax: (613) 533-6818
E-mail: kuoc@econ.queensu.ca
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Personal
Information
Since
2001, I have been a Senior Fellow of John Deutsch Institute International at
Queen’s University. Prior to coming to Queen’s, from 1996 to 2000 I was a
research Fellow at Harvard University’s International Tax Program and the
Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). During that period, I
taught tax analysis, revenue forecasting and investment appraisal at HIID. In
2004-2005, I taught fiscal policy: principles and practice, and investment
appraisal at Graduate Institute of Finance, National Chiao
Tung University in Taiwan. I also worked as a consultant
on tax reform and tax analysis in Belize, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guyana,
Indonesia, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania,
Ukraine and Vietnam. I have worked for 30 years on issues concerned with
project appraisal and cost-benefit analysis in Argentina, Canada, Chile,
South Africa and Uruguay. While working in the Canadian Federal Government, I
undertook the evaluation of several major public sector investment projects
and was a manager in the Department of Finance, Ottawa. I first received a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics from National Taiwan
University and then completed a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the
University of Western Ontario. (See attached CV
(pdf))
Publications
Book
- Taxation and Development in Taiwan, (with G.P. Jenkins and K.N. Sun), Harvard
Studies in International Development, Harvard University Press, (2003).
Articles
·
“The Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital for
Canada: An Empirical Update”, (with G.P.Jenkins,
ed.by D.D.Burgess and G.P.Jenkins,
Discount Rates for the Evaluation of Public Private Partnerships, McGill-Queen’s University Press,
(2010).
·
“Evaluating the
Relative Impact of Fiscal Incentives and Trade Policies on the Returns to
Manufacturing in Taiwan, 1955-1995”, (with G.P. Jenkins), Asian Economic
Journal, (March 2007).
·
“Information,
Corruption, and Measures for the Promotion of Manufactured Exports”, (with
G.P. Jenkins), paper presented at the Tenth Annual Villa Colombella Group Conference, Paris, (September 4-7,
2002); collected in The Economics of Transparency in Politics, edited by A.
Breton, G. Galeotti, P. Salmon and R. Wintrobe, (Hampshire: Ashgate
Publishing Limited, England, 2007), Chapter 7.
·
“Evaluation of
the Benefits of Transnational Transportation Projects” (with G.P. Jenkins), Journal
of Applied Economics, Vol. IX, No. 1, (May 2006).
·
“An Operational
Guide to the Estimation of the Economic Opportunity Cost of Labor in South
Africa”, (with H.A. Bicak, G.P. Jenkins, and M.B Mphahlele), The South African
Journal of Economics, Vol. 72:5, (December 2004).
·
“The Economic
Opportunity Cost of Capital in South Africa” (with G.P. Jenkins and M. B. Mphahlele), The South
African Journal of Economics, Vol. 71:3, (September 2003).
·
“The Economic
Cost of Foreign Exchange for South Africa” (with A. C. Harberger,
G.P. Jenkins, and M.B. Mphahlele), The South
African Journal of Economics, Vol. 71:2, (June 2003).
·
“A VAT Revenue
Simulation Model for Tax Reform in Developing Countries”, (with G.P. Jenkins),
World Development, Vol. 28, No. 4, (April 2000).
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“Evaluating the
Social Cost of Job Creation”, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation,
Special Issue, ISSN 0834-1516, (May 1997).
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“Reforming the
Canadian Sales Tax System: A Regional General Equilibrium Analysis”, (with B.Hamilton), Canadian Tax Journal,
(January/February 1991).
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“Considerations
for the Tax Mix”, (with B.Hamilton and S.N.Poddar), Osgoode
Hall Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, (summer 1988).
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“Measuring the
Non-Neutralities of Sales and Excise Taxes in Canada”, (with T. McGirr and S.N. Poddar), Canadian
Tax Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3, (May/June 1988).
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“On Measuring
the Economic Subsidies of Export Sales Financing”, (with A. Jelliss), Economic Development and Cultural Change,
Vol. 35, No. 4, (July 1987).
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“On Measuring
the Social Opportunity Cost of Foreign Exchange”, (with G.P. Jenkins), Canadian
Journal of Economics, Vol. XVIII, No.2, (May 1985).
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“On Measuring
the Social Opportunity Cost of Permanent and Temporary Employment: A Reply”,
(with G.P. Jenkins), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. XIV, No. 4,
(November 1981).
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“On Measuring
the Social Opportunity Cost of Permanent and Temporary Employment”, (with G.P.Jenkins), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.
XI, No. 2, (May 1978).
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“Intermediate Products
and the Two-Sector Growth Model in an Open Economy”, Economic Record,
(March 1977).
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“The Effect of
Education on the Earnings of Indian, Eskimo, Metis and White Workers in the
Mackenzie District of Northern Canada”, Economic Development and Cultural
Change, Vol. 24, No. 2, (January 1976).
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“A Two-Sector
Growth Model with an Intermediate Product”, Southern Economic Journal,
Vol. XL, No. 3, (January 1974).
Conference
and Working Papers
- “Cost-Benefit Analysis Case Study on
Regulations to Lower the Level of Sulphur in Gasoline”, (with G.P.
Jenkins and A. Ozbafli), paper prepared for
Treasury Board, Government of Canada, (March 2007).
- “Diagnosis of Indirect Taxes and the Taxation
of International Trade in the Dominican Republic”, (with G.P. Jenkins
and A. Klevchuk), paper prepared for the
Government of the Dominican Republic, (February 2007).
- “Fiscal Adjustment for Sustainable Growth in
Belize”, (with G.P. Jenkins), Inter-American Development Bank,
RE2-06-020, (September 2006).
- “Is the Value added Tax Naturally Progressive?”, (with G.P. Jenkins, and H. Jenkins), paper
presented at the Canadian Economics Association 40th
Annual Meetings, Montreal, (May 2006).
- “PIT Policy option Analysis: Projections of
Revenue and Incidence”, (with A. Klevchuk),
paper prepared for the Government of Vietnam and UNDP, (April 2006).
- “Canadian Regulatory Analysis Guide”, (with
G.P. Jenkins), paper prepared for Privy Council Office, Government of
Canada, (March 2006).
- “Fiscal Adjustment for Sustainable Growth in the
Dominican Republic”, (with H. Guiliani Cury and G.P. Jenkins), Government of the Dominican
Republic, (March 2004).
- “On Sustainable Development of an
Agricultural Economy: the Case of Guyana”, (with G.P. Shukla), Harvard
University Discussion Paper No. 765, (June 2000).
- “An Evaluation of Exploration Tax Credit”,
(with S.Clark), Department of Finance
Canada Working Paper No. 91-1, (1991).
- “Buenos Aires – Colonia Bridge Project:
Financial and Economic Appraisal”, (with G.P. Jenkins), report prepared
for Comision Binacional
Puente Buenos Aires Colonia and the World Bank, Washington DC, (July
1998).
- “Andean Highway Passes Program: Financial
and Economic Appraisal”, (with G.P. Jenkins), report prepared for
Inter-American Development Bank as a subcontract to Louis Berger
International, Inc., Washington DC, (June 1998).
Course,
Spring 2015
Economics
437/837: Cost-Benefit Analysis (Syllabus)
