IFIR – CESifo Conference

New Directions in Fiscal Federalism

Lexington, Kentucky, September 14^th-16^th, 2006

	Programme
	Thursday, September 14th
08:30 - 12:00	Morning Session, Chair: William Hoyt
	Opening Remarks: Thiess Buettner, Edward Jennings and David Wildasin
08:30 - 09:15	Keynote Lecture: Jean Hindriks TBA Discussant: Massimo Bordignon
09:15 - 10:00	Christos Kotsogiannis and Robert Schwager “Fiscal Equalization and Yardstick Competition” Discussant: Ernesto Crivelli
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15	Timothy Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout “On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation” Discussant: Matthias Wrede
11:15 - 12:00	Bernd Huber and Marko Runkel “Interregional Redistribution and Budget Institutions under Asymmetric Information” Discussant: Therese McGuire
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 17:00	Afternoon Session, Chair: Matthew Gabel
13:30 - 14:15	Keynote Lecture: Barry Weingast “Second Generation Fiscal Federalism: Implications for Decentralized Democratic Governance and Economic Development” Discussant: Jan K. Brueckner
14:15 - 15:00	Xavier Calsamiglia, Teresa Garcia-Mila and Therese McGuire “Why do Differences in the Degree of Fiscal Decentralization Endure?” Discussant: Matz Dahlberg
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15	Matthias Wrede “Uniformity Requirement and Political Accountability” Discussant: Robert Schwager
16:15 - 17:00	Ernesto Crivelli and Klaas Staal “Size and Soft Budget Constraints” Discussant: Teresa Garcia-Mila
	Friday, September 15th
08:30 - 12:00	Morning Session, Chair: John Garen
08:30 - 09:15	Keynote Lecture: Robert Inman “Why Federalism“ Discussant: William Hoyt
09:15 - 10:00	Matz Dahlberg, Eva Mork, Jorn Rattso and Hanna Ågren “Federal Taxes and Local Spending: Estimating the Flypaper Effect Using Grant Discontinuity” Discussant: Albert Sole-Olle
10:00 - 10:30	Coffe Break
10:30 -11:15	Massimo Bordignon, Luca Colombo and Umberto Galmarini “Fiscal Federalism and Lobbying” Discussant: Brian Roberson
11:15 - 12:00	Albert Sole-Olle and Pilar Sorribas “The Effects of Partisan Alignment on the Allocation of Intergovernmental Transfers: Differences-in-Differences Estimates for Spain” Discussant: Lars-Erik Borge
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 17:00	Afternoon Session, Chair: Dwight Denison
13:30 - 14:15	Keynote Lecture: Peter Birch Sørensen “The Dilemmas of Tax Policy Coordination in the European Union: A Quantitative Analysis” Discussant: Andrew Haughwout
14:15 - 15:00	Kristian Behrens and Pierre Picard “Tax Competition, Location and Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment” Discussant: Christos Kotsogiannis
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15	Marcel Gérard “Reforming the Taxation of Multijurisdictional Enterprises in Europe: Coopetition in a Bottom Up Fiscal Federation” Discussant: Marko Runkel
16:15 - 17:00	Robert Chirinko and Daniel Wilson “State Investment Tax Incentives: A Zero-Sum Game?” Discussant: Hanna Ågren
	Saturday, September 16th
08:30 - 12:00	Morning Session, Chair: James Marton
08:30 - 09:15	Keynote Lecture: George Zodrow “The Property Tax Incidence Debate and the Mix of State and Local Finance of Local Public Expenditures” Discussant: Eugenia Toma
09:15 - 10:00	Jan Brueckner “Fiscal Federalism and Economic Growth” Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15	Rania Karakosta and Christos Kotsogiannis “Principles of Taxation, Size of Jurisdictions and Tax Inefficiencies in Federal Systems” Discussant: Marcel Gérard
11:15 - 12:00	Keynote Lecture: John D. Wilson "Protecting the Welfare State from International Migration" Discussant: Peter Birch Sørensen
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
	End of Conference

IFIR – CESifo Conference

New Directions in Fiscal Federalism

Lexington, Kentucky, September 14th-16th, 2006

Programme

Lexington, Kentucky, September 14^th-16^th, 2006