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Area Conference on
Public Sector Economics
Programme
Friday, 24 April 2009
09:00 - 09:10
Welcome and Introduction
RICK VAN DER PLOEG (University of Oxford)
09:10 - 10:40
Keynote Lecture: Using Field Experiments to Learn About the Economics of Charity
JOHN LIST (University of Chicago)
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1a:
Redistribution
Chair: MICHAEL DEVEREUX
11:00 - 11:40
Decentralized Redistribution when Governments Care about Relative Performance
Ana B. Ania and ANDREAS WAGENER (University of Hanover)
Discussant: Erkki Koskela
11:40 - 12:20
Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment
Thomas Aronsson and ERKKI KOSKELA (University of Helsinki)
Discussant: Michael Devereux
12:20 - 13:00
Taxing Risky Investment
MICHAEL P. DEVEREUX (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Andreas Wagener
Parallel Session 1b:
Migration
Chair: ASSAF RAZIN
11:00 - 11:40
The Skill Compostition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State
Efraim Sadka, Alon Cohen and ASSAF RAZIN (Tel-Aviv University)
Discussant: Pierre Pestieau
11:40 - 12:20
How do Migrants Choose their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants
Wido Geis, SILKE UEBELMESSER (University of Munich) and Marting Werding
Discussant: Assaf Razin
12:20 - 13:00
Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State
PANU POUTVAARA (University of Helsinki), Martin D. Munk and Martin Junge
Discussant: Silke Uebelmesser
13:00 - 14:10
Lunch
Plenary Session:
Presentation by Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
Chair: RICK VAN DER PLOEG
14:10 - 14:50
The Political Economy of Sin Taxes
Markus Haavio and KAISA KOTAKORPI (University of Tampere)
Discussant: Tomer Blumkin
14:50 - 15:30
Testing the Tax Competition Theory: Evidence for OECD Countries
Aleksandra Riedl and SILVIA ROCHA-AKIS (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
Discussant: Jean-Marie Lozachmeur (Université des Sciences Sociales)
15:30 - 16:10
Do Re-Election Probabilities Influence Public Investment?
JON H. FIVA (University of Oslo) and Gisle James Natvik
Discussant: Rick van der Ploeg
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 2a:
Mobility and Corporate Taxation 1
Chair: PAOLO M. PANTEGHINI
16:30 - 17:10
The Role of Mobility in Tax and Subsidy Competition
ALEXANDER HAUPT (University of Plymouth) and Tim Krieger
Discussant: Paolo Pantheghini
17:10 - 17:50
Corporate Taxation and Corporate Governance
Marko Koethenbuerger and MICHAEL STIMMELMAYR (University of Munich)
Discussant: Alexander Haupt
17:50 - 18:30
Retrospective Capital Gains Taxation in the Real World
Francesco Menoncin and PAOLO M. PANTEGHINI (University of Brescia)
Discussant: Michael Stimmelmayr
Parallel Session 2b:
Income Taxation
Chair: HELMUTH CREMER
16:30 - 17:10
The Contest Winner: Gifted or Venturesome?
MARCO SAHM (Technical University of Munich) and Marco Runkel
Discussant: Kaisa Kotakorpi
17:10 - 17:50
Marginal tax rates and tax-favoured pension savings of the self-employed Evidence from Sweden
HÅKAN SELIN (University of Uppsala)
Discussant: Helmuth Cremer
17:50 - 18:30
Are Income and Consumption Taxes ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods
TOMER BLUMKIN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Bradley J. Ruffle and Yosef Ganun
Discussant: Marco Sahm
18:30 - 19:10
Education and Social Mobility
HELMUTH CREMER (University of Tolouse), Philippe De Donder and Pierre Pestieau
Discussant: Håkan Selin
19:10
End Day 1
Saturday, 25 April 2009
Parallel Session 3a:
Mobility and Corporate Taxation 2
Chair: MARCO RUNKEL
09:00 - 09:40
How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
Saacha O. Becker; PETER EGGER (University of Munich) and Valeria Merlo
Discussant: Christian Keuschnigg
09:40 - 10:20
Corporate Taxation and the Impact Governance, Political and Economic Factors
MARCEL GÉRARD (Catholik University of Mons) and Fernando M. M. Ruiz
Discussant: Marco Runkel
10:20 - 11:00
Incorporation and Taxation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Peter Egger, CHRISTIAN KEUSCHNIGG (University of St. Gallen) and Hannes Winner
Discussant: Marcel Gérard
11:00 - 11:40
Firms' financial choices and thin capitalization rules under corporate tax competition
Andreas Haufler and MARCO RUNKEL (University of Magdeburg)
Discussant: Peter Egger
Parallel Session 3b:
Public Policy
Chair: MARKO KOETHENBUERGER
09:00 - 09:40
The Optimal Tax on Products with Pirates is Low
VESA KANNIAINEN (University of Helsinki)
Discussant: Marko Koethenbuerger
09:40 - 10:20
A Non-Linear Analysis on the Sustainability of the Government's Intertemporal Budget Constraint
GABRIELLA LEGRENZI (Keele University) and Costas Milas
Discussant: Vesa Kanniainen
10:20 - 11:00
HARNESSING WINDFALL REVENUES: Optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies
RICK VAN DER PLOEG (University of Oxford) and Anthony J. Venables
Discussant: Gabriella Legrenzi
11:00 - 11:40
How do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization
MARKO KOETHENBUERGER (University of Copenhagen)
Discussant: Silvia Rocha-Akis
11:40 - 12:00
Coffee Break
Plenary Session:
Presentation by Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidate
Chair: ASSAF RAZIN
12:00 - 12:40
Optimal Education Subsidies: Comparing the Second Best with a Time-Consistent Redistribution Policy
JOANA PEREIRA (Erasmus School of Economics)
Discussant: Panu Poutvaara
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch
Plenary Session:
Presentation by Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
Chair: PANU POUTVAARA
14:00 - 14:40
Political Accountability and Real Authority of Government Bureaucracy
MARINA DODLOVA (University Paris Ouest)
Discussant: Giorgio Bellettini
14:40 - 15:20
Take It or Leave It: Optimal Transfer Programs, Monitoring and Takeup
LAURENCE JACQUET (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Discussant: Timothy J. Goodspeed (Hunter College of the City University of New York)
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 4a:
Population Economics
Chair: RAINALD BORCK
15:40 - 16:20
Population, Pensions, and the Direction of Technical Change
ANDREAS IRMEN (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Doina Maria Radulescu
16:20 - 17:00
Family Income Splitting and the Number of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Peter Egger and DOINA MARIA RADULESCU (University of Munich)
Discussant: Rainald Borck
17:00 - 17:40
Preferences for childcare policies: Theory and evidence
RAINALD BORCK (University of Passau) and Katharina Wrohlich
Discussant: Andreas Irmen
Parallel Session 4b:
International Taxation of Corporations
Chair: GAËTAN NICODÈME
15:40 - 16:20
Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction
WOLFGANG EGGERT (University of Paderborn) and Jun-ichi Itaya
Discussant: Gaëtan Nicodème
16:20 - 17:00
Source versus Residence Based Taxation with International Mergers and Acquistions
CLEMENS FUEST (University of Oxford) and Johannes Becker
Discussant: Wolfgang Eggert
17:00 - 17:40
A simple model of tax competition for heterogeneous firms
ANDREAS HAUFLER (University of Munich) and Frank Stähler
Discussant: Clemens Fuest
17:40 - 18:20
International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven and GAËTAN NICODÈME (European Commission)
Discussant Andreas Haufler
19:30
Conference Dinner at the Seehaus Restaurant and Award Presentation of the Young CESifo Affiliate Prize
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Parallel Session 5a:
Indirect Taxation and Multinationals
Chair: NADINE RIEDEL
09:00 - 09:40
When is Replacing Trade Taxes by VATs Good for Developing Countries?
Panos Hatzipanayotou, Sajal Lahiri and MICHAEL S. MICHAEL (University of Cyprus)
Discussant: Markus Reisinger
09:40 - 10:20
Indirect Taxation in Vertical Oligopoly
Martin Peitz and MARKUS REISINGER (University of Munich)
Discussant: Nadine Riedel
10:20 - 11:00
Headquarters versus Subsidiary Profitability: Evidence for a Parent Bias and Implications
Matthias Dischinger and NADINE RIEDEL (Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation)
Discussant: Michael S. Michael
Parallel Session 5b:
Political Economics
Chair: PANOS HATZIPANAYOTOU
09:00 - 09:40
Voting on pensions: sex and marriage.
MARIE-LOUISE LEROUX (University of Louvain), Pierre Pestieau and M. Racionero
Discussant: Aleksandra Riedl (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
09:40 - 10:20
Three-Win Strategies of Trade and Domestic Tax Reforms in the Presence of Pollution
Michael S. Michael and PANOS HATZIPANAYOTOU (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Discussant: Volker Meier
10:20 - 11:00
Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork: Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation and Family Tax Splitting
VOLKER MEIER (Ifo Institute for Economic Research) and Matthias Wrede
Discussant: Marie-Louise Leroux
11:00 - 11:40
Political persistence, connections and economic growth
GIORGIO BELLETTINI (University of Bologna), Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Giovanni Pararolo
Discussant: Panos Hatzipanayotou
11:40 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00
End of Conference
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