CESifo Area Conferences

Public Sector Economics

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich

04-05 May 2001

Programme
Friday, 4 May 2001
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome & Introduction
	Session 1: Public Good Provision. Chair: Peter Birch Sørensen
09:15 - 09:45	JEREMY EDWARDS, University of Cambridge: "Cost-Benefit Rules for Public Good Provision with Distortionary Taxation". Discussant: Vidar Christiansen, University of Oslo.
09:45 - 10:15	SÖREN BLOMQUIST, University of Uppsala: "The Role of Prices on Excludable Public Goods" (with Vidar Christiansen). Discussant: Efraim Sadka, Tel-Aviv University.
10:15 - 10:45	MICHAEL S. MICHAEL, University of Cyprus: "Tax Competition, Capital Mobility and Public Good Provision within a Trading Block." (with Panos Hatzipanayotou and Costas Hadjiyiannis). Discussant: Clemens Fuest, University of Munich.
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Tax Competition. Chair: Vidar Christiansen
11:15 - 11:45	APOSTOLIS PHILIPPOPOULOS, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Are Nash Tax Rates Too Low or Too High?" (with George Economides). Discussant: Alfons Weichenrieder, University of Munich.
11:45 - 12:15	ECKHARD JANEBA, University of Colorado: "Is Targeted Tax Competition Less Harmful than its Remedies?" (with Michael Smart). Discussant: Jeremy Edwards, University of Cambridge.
12:15 - 12:45	WOLFGANG EGGERT, University of Konstanz: "Information Sharing, Multiple Nash Equilibria and Asymmetric Capital-Tax Competition" (with Martin Kolmar). Discussant: Michael S. Michael, University Cyprus.
12.45 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 3: The Political Economy of Federations. Chair: Dieter Bös
14:00 - 14:30	MARK GRADSTEIN, Ben Gurion University: "The Political Economy of Sustainable Federations". Discussant: Berthold Wigger, University of Mannheim.
14:30 - 15:00	CHRISTOPH SCHALTEGGER, University of St. Gallen: "On Government Centralization and Budget Referendums: Evidence from Switzerland" (with Lars Feld). Discussant: Wolfgang Eggert, University of Konstanz.
15:00 - 15.30	MATTHIAS WREDE, Aachen University of Technology: "Fiscal Equalisation: Principles and an Application to the European Union" (with Bernd Hayo). Discussant: Johann Brunner, University of Linz.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4: The Political Economy of Redistribution and Stabilisation. Chair: Vesa Kanniainen
16:00 - 16:30	DIETER BÖS, University of Bonn: "Anarchy, Efficiency, and Redistribution" (with Martin Kolmar). Discussant: Mark Gradstein, Ben Gurion University.
16:30 - 17:00	EFRAIM SADKA, Tel-Aviv University: "The Aging Population and the Size of the Welfare State" (with Assaf Razin and Phillip Schwagel). Discussant: Hans-Werner Sinn, University of Munich.
17:00 - 17:30	GREGORY HESS, Oberlin College: " Is the Political Business Cycle for Real?" (with S. Brock Blomberg). Discussant: Jakob von Weizsäcker, University of Munich.
19:30	Dinner - Seehaus
Saturday, 5 May 2001
	Session 5: Tax Incidence, Tax Design and Regulation. Chair: Jeremy Edwards
09:00 - 09:30	BERTHOLD WIGGER, University of Mannheim: "On the Intergenerational Incidence of Wage and Consumption Taxes". Discussant: Dieter Bös, University of Bonn.
09:30 - 10:00	ANNA PETTINI, University of Florence: "Endogenous Fertility and the Design of Family Taxation" (with Alessandro Cigno and Alessandro Balestrino). Discussant: Dan Anderberg, University of Stirling.
10:00 - 10:30	PETER J. LAMBERT, University of York: "Progressivity Comparisons" (with Valentino Dardanoni). Discussant: Alessandro Cigno, University of Florence.
10:30 - 11:00	PAOLO PANTEGHINI, University of Brescia: "Incentives to Irreversible Investments under Different Regulatory Regimes" (with Carlo Scarpa). Discussant: Vesa Kanniainen, University of Helsinki.
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
	Session 6: Commodity Taxation. Chair: Anna Pettini
11:30 - 12:00	PASCALIS RAIMONDOS-MØLLER, Copenhagen Business School: "Tax Principles and Tax Harmonization Under Imperfect Competition: A Cautionary Example" (with Michael Keen and Sajal Lahiri). Discussant: Eckhard Janeba, University of Colorado.
12:00 - 12:30	STEPHEN SMITH, University College London: "The Economics of Duty-Free Shopping" (with Vidar Christiansen). Discussant: Marko Köthenbürger, University of Munich.
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 7: Tax Policy in an Uncertain World. Chair: Peter Lambert
14:00 - 14:30	SYED AHSAN, Concordia University: "Taxation and Risky Human Capital Accumulation" (with Peter Tsigaris). Discussant: Ruud de Mooij, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
14:30 - 15:00	VESA KANNIAINEN, University of Helsinki: "Taxation of Venture Capital Industry: The Problems of Imperfect Loss Offset and Unobservable Effort" (with Christian Keuschnigg). Discussant: Syed Ahsan, Concordia University.
15:00 - 15:30	CLEMENS FUEST, University of Munich: "Why is the Corporate Tax Rate Lower than the Personal Tax Rate? The Role of New Firms" (with Bernd Huber and Søren Bo Nielsen). Discussant: Paolo Panteghini, University of Brescia.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00	Panel Discussion: Directions for Future Research in Public Economics
	Panellists: SÖREN BLOMQUIST, DIETER BÖS, ECKHARD JANEBA, EFRAIM SADKA. Chair: Peter Birch Sørensen.
17:00	Close of conference

Public Sector Economics

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