Past Conferences

	6th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 13 - 14 November 2009 Programme

	Friday, 13 November 2009
08:45 - 09:00	Welcome Address MARKO KÖTHENBÜRGER and GUTTORM SCHJELDERUP
	Session 1: Optimal Taxation Chair: Søren Bo Nielsen
09:00 - 09:30	The Marginal Cost of Public Funds and Optimal Second-Best Policy Rules BAS JACOBS Discussant: Laurence Jacquet
09:30 - 10:00	The Optimal Marginal Tax Rates with both Extensive and Intensive Responses LAURENCE JACQUET, Etienne Lehmann and Bruno van der Linden Discussant: Ray Rees
10:00 - 10:30	On the Desirability of Taxing Capital Income to Reduce Moral Hazard in Social Insurance Bas Jacobs and DIRK SCHINDLER Discussant: Wolfgang Eggert
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Firm Taxation Chair: Marko Köthenbürger
11:00 - 11:30	Profit Taxation and Finance Constraints Christian Keuschnigg and EVELYN RIBI Discussant: Johannes Becker
11:30 - 12:00	Taxation of Foreign Profits with Heterogeneous Multinational Firms JOHANNES BECKER Discussant: Frank Stähler
12:00 - 12:30	Tax Competition in a Simple Model with Heterogenous Firms: How Larger Markets Reduce Profit Taxes Andreas Haufler and FRANK STÄHLER Discussant: Evelyn Ribi
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 3: Insurance and Public Policy Chair: Ray Rees
14:00 - 14:30	Exploring Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway KARL OVE AARBU Discussant Friedrich Breyer
14:30 - 15:00	Marital Risk, Family Insurance, and Public Policy HANS FEHR, Manuel Kallweit and Fabian Kindermann Discussant: Karl Ove Aarbu
15:00 - 15:30	Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditures: A New Test for Germany FRIEDRICH BREYER, Normann Lorenz and Thomas Niebel Discussant: Hans Fehr
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4: Migration and Federalism Chair: Bas Jacobs
16:00 - 16:30	Voting on Labour-Market Integration and Education Policy when Citizens Differ in Mobility and Ability Alexander Haupt and SILKE ÜBELMESSER Discussant: Bas Jacobs
16:30 - 17:00	Education, Unemployment and Migration WOLFGANG EGGERT, Tim Krieger and Volker Meier Discussant: Silke Übelmesser
17:00 - 17:30	Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices SEBASTIAN KESSING Discussant: Marco Runkel
	Saturday, 14 November 2009
	Session 5: Political Economy Chair: Friedrich Breyer
09:00 - 09:30	The Political Economy of Regulatory Risk ROLAND STRAUSZ Discussant: Geir H. Bjertnaes
09:30 - 10:00	Decentralization, Transfers and Economic Performance - Evidence from a Germany Lars P. Feld, Thushyantan Baskaran and SARAH NECKER Discussant: Christina Gathmann
10:00 - 10:30	How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005 Patricia Funk and CHRISTINA GATHMANN Discussant: Sarah Necker
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 6: Fiscal Competition Chair: Guttorm Schjelderup
11:00 - 11:30	Reduced Border-Zone Commodity Tax? SØREN BO NIELSEN Discussant: Sebastian Kessing
11:30 - 12:00	Multinationals and Tax Evasion: Estimating a Direct Channel for Income Shifting SISSEL JENSEN and Guttorm Schjelderup Discussant: Søren Bo Nielsen
12:00 - 12:30	Firms´ Financial Choices and Thin Capitalization Rules under Corporate Tax Competition Andreas Haufler and MARCO RUNKEL Discussant: Guttorm Schjelderup
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Parallel Session 7a: Macroeconomic Issues in Public Finance Chair: Marko Köthenbürger
14:00 - 14:30	Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and ANDREAS PEICHL Discussant: Torfinn Harding
14:30 - 15:00	Is Norway´s Bird-in-Hand Stabilization Fund Prudent Enough? Fiscal Reactions to Hydrocarbon Windfalls and Graying Populations TORFINN HARDING and Frederick van der Ploeg Discussant: Andreas Peichl
	Parallel Session 7b: Empirical Public Economics Chair: Nadine Riedel
14:00 - 14:30	Income Mobility of Owners of Small Businesses when Boundaries between Occupations are Vague THOR O. THORESEN Discussant: Hans Bonesrønning
14:30 - 15:00	Are College Grades Affected by Quantity of Study? HANS BONESRØNNING and Leiv Opstad Discussant: Thor O. Thoresen
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
	Session 8: Empirical Analysis of Taxation Chair: Sebastian Kessing
15:30 - 16:00	Taxing Agglomeration Rents: The Importance of Being Different NADINE RIEDEL and Hyun-Ju Koh Discussant: Lars-Erik Borge
16:00 - 16:30	Capitalization of Local Taxation and Services in Norway LARS-ERIK BORGE and Jørn Rattsø Discussant: Johannes Voget
16:30 - 17:00	The Determinants of Cross-Border Tax Information Sharing: A Panel Data Analysis Jenny E. Ligthart and JOHANNES VOGET Discussant: Nadine Riedel
19:00	Conference Dinner at the Eisbach Restaurant

6th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 13 - 14 November 2009

Programme

Friday, 13 November 2009

Session 1: Optimal Taxation Chair: Søren Bo Nielsen

Session 2: Firm Taxation Chair: Marko Köthenbürger

Session 3: Insurance and Public Policy Chair: Ray Rees

Session 4: Migration and Federalism Chair: Bas Jacobs

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Session 5: Political Economy Chair: Friedrich Breyer

Session 6: Fiscal Competition Chair: Guttorm Schjelderup

Parallel Session 7a: Macroeconomic Issues in Public Finance Chair: Marko Köthenbürger

Parallel Session 7b: Empirical Public Economics Chair: Nadine Riedel

Session 8: Empirical Analysis of Taxation Chair: Sebastian Kessing

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
13 - 14 November 2009

Session 1: Optimal Taxation
Chair: Søren Bo Nielsen

Session 2: Firm Taxation
Chair: Marko Köthenbürger

Session 3: Insurance and Public Policy
Chair: Ray Rees

Session 4: Migration and Federalism
Chair: Bas Jacobs

Session 5: Political Economy
Chair: Friedrich Breyer

Session 6: Fiscal Competition
Chair: Guttorm Schjelderup

Parallel Session 7a: Macroeconomic Issues in Public Finance
Chair: Marko Köthenbürger

Parallel Session 7b: Empirical Public Economics
Chair: Nadine Riedel

Session 8: Empirical Analysis of Taxation
Chair: Sebastian Kessing