Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
14-15 May 2009
All sessions will
be held at the Policy Studies Building (138 Union Street), Queen's University,
in Conference Room 202.
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Thursday,
May 14, 2009
8:00-8:30am –
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:30am –
Session 1: Optimal Income Taxation [Chair: Pierre
Pestieau (U de Liège)]
Comparative
Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Taxation in the Presence of a Publicly Provided
Input
Authors: Craig Brett (Mount
Allison U) and John Weymark (Vanderbilt
U)
First Discussant: Richard
Harris (Simon Fraser U)
Second Discussant:
Katherine Cuff (McMaster U)
A Comparison of
Optimal Tax Policies When Compensation and Responsibility Matter
Authors: Laurence Jacquet
(Norwegian School of Economics) and Dirk Van de Gaer
(Ghent U)
First Discussant: Michael
Hoy (U of Guelph)
Second Discussant: Motohiro
Sato (Hitotsubashi U)
10:30-11:00am –
Coffee
11:00am-12:00pm
– Session 2: Local Public Goods and
Mobility [Chair: Nicolas Marceau
(UQAM)]
Incentive
Equivalence with Fixed Migration Costs
Author: Sam Bucovetsky (York
U)
First Discussant: John D.
Wilson (Michigan State U)
Second Discussant: Dan
Usher (Queen’s U)
12:00-1:30pm –
Lunch
1:30-3:30pm – Session 3: Political Economy [Chair: Sumon Majumdar (Queen’s U)]
Opting Out of Publicly Provided Services and Two-Tier
Health and Education
Authors: Christoph Lulfesmann (Simon Fraser U) and Gordon
Myers (Simon Fraser U)
First Discussant: Rose
Anne Devlin (U of Ottawa)
Second Discussant: Steve
Coate (Cornell U)
On the Case for
a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Authors: Marina Azzimonti (U of Texas), Marco Battaglini (Princeton U), and Steve Coate (Cornell
U)
First Discussant: Al
Slivinski (U of Western Ontario)
Second Discussant: David
Wildasin (U of Kentucky)
3:30-4:00pm –
Coffee
4:00-6:00pm –
Session 4: Fiscal Competition [Chair: Frank Flatters (Queen’s U)]
Fiscal Competition for Imperfectly-Mobile Labor and Capital: A Comparative
Dynamic Analysis
Author: David Wildasin (U of Kentucky)
First Discussant: Bev
Dahlby (U of Alberta)
Second Discussant:
Michael Smart (U of Toronto)
Optimal Fiscal Federalism in the Presence of Tax Competition
Authors: Eckhard Janeba (U of Mannheim) and John D. Wilson (Michigan State U)
First Discussant:
Steeve Mongrain (Simon Fraser U)
Second Discussant: Marcel
Gérard (FUCAM)
6:30pm –
Conference Dinner; The River Mill, Kingston,
Ontario
Dinner
Addresses by Michael Keen (IMF), Nicolas
Marceau (UQAM), and Pierre Pestieau (U
de Liège)
Speech by Robin Boadway (Queen’s U)
Friday, May 15, 2009
8:30-9:00am –
Continental Breakfast
9:00-11:00am –
Session 5: Human Capital Accumulation
[Chair: Sam Wilson (U of Alberta)]
Author: Wolfram Richter (U of Dortmund)
First Discussant: Jim
Davies (U of Western Ontario)
Second Discussant: Maria
Racionero (Australian National U)
Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the
Pension System
Authors: Helmuth Cremer (U de Toulouse), Firouz
Gahvari (U of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign), and Pierre Pestieau (U de Liège)
First Discussant: Ray
Rees (U of Munich)
Second Discussant: Jean-François
Wen (U of Calgary)
11:00-11:30am –
Coffee
11:30am-12:30pm
– Session 6: Taxation and Firm
Investment [Chair: Harry Kitchen
(Trent U)]
Taxation
and Skills Investment in Frictional Labour Markets
Author: Jean-François Tremblay (U of Ottawa)
First Discussant: Craig
Brett (Mount Allison U)
Second Discussant: Eckhard
Janeba (U of Mannheim)
12:30-2:00pm –
Lunch
2:00-4:00pm – Session 7: Social Insurance and Redistribution [Chair: Marianne Vigneault (Bishop U)]
Social and Private Long Term Care Insurance with
Variable Altruism
Authors: Pierre Pestieau (U de Liège) and Motohiro Sato (Hitotsubashi
U)
First Discussant: John
Burbidge (U of Waterloo)
Second Discussant: Vicky
Barham (U of Ottawa)
Tagging with Leisure Needs Differences
Authors: Pierre Pestieau (U de Liège) and Maria Racionero (Australian National U)
First Discussant: Stefan
Dodds (Carleton U)
Second Discussant: John
Weymark (Vanderbilt U)
4:00-4:30pm –
Coffee
4:30-5:30pm –
Session 8: Optimal Enforcement
[Chair: Michael Keen (IMF)]
Policies for The Informal Sector with Undocumented
Workers
Authors: Katherine Cuff (McMaster U), Nicolas
Marceau (UQAM), Steeve Mongrain (Simon Fraser U), and Joanne Roberts (U of Calgary)
First Discussant: Patrick
Francois (UBC)
Second Discussant:
Wolfram Richter (U of Dortmund)
5:30-5:45pm –
Concluding Remarks by Pierre Pestieau (U
de Liège)
The workshop
takes place in the first floor of the Policy Studies Building (138 Union
Street), Queen's University, in Conference Room 202. This building is slightly
west of the intersection of Union Street and University Avenue.
We thank the International Society for Public
Economics, the Queen’s Economics Department and Queen’s University for their
generous financial support.
Here
are the directions to Kingston for
travel by air, train, or car. Parking is available in the underground lot 100
metres south of Dunning Hall at the corner of University Avenue and Stuart
Street.
As for accommodation, we leave to you to make
the arrangements. However, for your convenience, we have reserved rooms
at the Hotel Belvedere (141 King St. E) and the Hochelaga Inn (24 Sydenham St.)
for the nights of May 13, May 14 and May 15th. The rooms at the Hotel
Belvedere are $129 per night plus taxes. The rooms at the Hochelaga range
from $130 - $160 per night plus taxes. If you would like to book a room,
please let Sharon Sullivan know at sullivas@econ.queensu.ca
or (613) 533-2294 and she would be happy to book it for you.
Here are the websites for the two hotels: http://www.hotelbelvedere.com/ http://www.hochelagainn.com/
For other options, the tourism Kingston
website provides a comprehensive list of accommodations in (and other
information on) Kingston.
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Conference Organizers
Katherine Cuff, McMaster University e-mail: cuffk@mcmaster.ca
Michael
Keen,
International Monetary Fund e-mail: MKEEN@imf.org
Sumon
Majumdar, Queen’s University e-mail: sumon@econ.queensu.ca
Nicolas Marceau, Université du Québec à Montréal e-mail: marceau.nicolas@uqam.ca
Pierre
Pestieau, University of Liege, Belgium e-mail: p.pestieau@ulg.ac.be
For further information, please contact any of the organizers
or Sharon Sullivan [ Phone: (613) 533-2294;
Fax: (613) 533-6025; e-mail: sullivas@econ.queensu.ca ]