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Area Conference on Public Sector Economics
Programme
Saturday, 26 April 2008

08:45 - 09:00	Welcome and Introduction
Parallel Session 1a: Indirect Taxation Chair: Sören Blomquist
09:00 - 09:30	VAT Coordination in the EUR: It’s the break in the audit trail, stupid! SIJBREN CNOSSEN (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)
09:30 - 10:00	Discriminatory Indirect Taxation in International Tax Competition SEBASTIAN KESSING (European Commission and Free University Berlin)
10:00 - 10:30	Habit formation and Labor Supply DARIO MALDONADO (El Rosario University Bogota)
Parallel Session 1b: Tax Competition I Chair: Paolo M. Panteghini
09:00 - 09:30	Tax Competition Among US States: Racing to the Bottom or Riding on a Seesaw? ROBERT CHIRINKO (University of Illinois at Chicago)
09:30 - 10:00	Tax Competition in Europe 1980 – 2007 – Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data Estimation JOHANNES RINCKE (University of Munich)
10:00 - 10:30	Tax rate and Tax base Competition for Foreign Direct Investment PETER EGGER (University of Munich/Ifo Institute)
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
Plenary Session: Prize Nominees I Chair: Sijbren Cnossen
10:50 - 11:35	The Option to Wait in Collective Decisions MATTHIAS MESSNER (Bocconi University, Milano)
11:35 - 12:20	Moral Hazard vs Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance RAJ CHETTY (University of California, Berkeley)
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch
Parallel Session 2a: Capital and Dividend Taxation Chair: Peter Egger
13:20 - 13:50	The Efficiency Loss of Capital Income Taxation under Imperfect Loss Offset Provisions SYED AHSAN (Concordia University)
13:50 - 14:20	Corporate Income Taxation of Multinationals in a General Equilibrium MARCO RUNKEL (University of Munich)
14:20 - 14:50	Non-Neutral Effects of the Cash Flow Tax, the Dividend Tax, the Johansson-Samuelson Tax and the ACE Tax PAOLO M. PANTEGHINI (University of Brescia)
14:50 - 15:20	The Old vs the New View of Divident Taxation: An Empirical Test Based on a Natural Experiment JUKKA PIRTTILÄ (Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki)
Parallel Session 2b: Education and Public Sector Chair: Efraim Sadka
13:20 - 13:50	Educational and Wage Risk: Public Insurance and Incentives DIRK SCHINDLER (University of Konstanz)
13:50 - 14:20	Optimal Taxation of Human Capital and the Earnings Function BAS JACOBS (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
14:20 - 14:50	Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates SÖREN BLOMQUIST (Uppsala University)
14:50 - 15:20	Managerial Talent, Motivation and Self-selection into Public Management ROBERT DUR (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
15:20 - 15:40	Coffee Break
Plenary Session: Prize Nominees II Chair: Robert Dur
15:40 - 16:25	Life Expectancy and Effort: An Optimal Taxation Problem MARIE-LOUISE LEROUX (University of Louvain)
16:25 - 17:10	Explaining Output Volatility; The Case of Taxation OLAF POSCH (University of Aarhus)
Parallel Session 3a: Pensions and Annuities I Chair: Bas Jacobs
17:10 - 17:40	The Political-Economy Positive Role of the Social Security System in Sustaining Immigration (But Not Vice Versa) ASSAF RAZIN (Tel Aviv University)
17:40 - 18:10	The Role of Stigma in the Design of Welfare Programmes EFRAIM SADKA (University of Tel-Aviv)
Parallel Session 3b: Pensions and Annuities II Chair: Raj Chetty
17:10 - 17:40	A Static Model for Voting on Social Security HENNING BOHN (University of California Santa Barbara)
17:40 - 18:10	Differentiated Annuities in a Pooling Equlibrium EYTAN SHESHINSKI (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
19:30	Conference Dinner at Seehaus Restaurant and Prize Ceremony
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Area Conference on Public Sector Economics

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