2014: University of Toronto

Annual Conference

Program

CPEG 2014 Conference

Faculty of Social Sciences
Social Sciences Building(FSS),
4th floor
120 University Of Ottawa, Ottawa

Friday, November 7

8:15 am – 9:00 am	Registration (Coffee, juices and muffins will be served)
9:00 am – 9:45 am	Session 1: Tax Evasion (Room: FSS 4004) Chair: Robin Boadway (Queen’s University) Dominika Langenmayr (University of Munich) Voluntary Disclosure of Evaded Taxes: Increasing Revenue, or Increasing Incentives to Evade? Discussant: Christopher Cotton (Queen’s University)
9:45 am – 10:15 am	Break and refreshments
10:15 am – 11:45 pm	Session 2: Experimental Evidence (Room: FSS 4004) Chair: Stefan Dodds (University of Winnipeg) Duk Gyoo Kim (Cornell University) Population Uncertainty in Voluntary Provision of Public Goods Discussant: Frances Woolley (Carleton University) Christopher Cotton (Queen’s University), Brent Hickman (University of Chicago), and Joseph Price (Brigham Young University) Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Discussant: Geoffrey Dunbar (Bank of Canada)
11:45 pm – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Session 3: Empirical Estimates of the Effects of Tax Policy (Room: FSS 4004) Chair: Elisabeth Gugl (University of Victoria) David Agrawal (University of Georgia) The Internet as a Tax Haven? The Effect of the Internet on Tax Competition Discussant: Craig Brett (Mount Allison University)Adam Lavecchia (University of Toronto) Does Raising Contribution Limits Lead to More Saving? Evidence from the ‘Catch-up Limit’ Reform Discussant: Dominika Langenmayr (University of Munich)
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm	Break and refreshments
3:00 pm – 4:15 pm	Joint CPEG Keynote Lecture and Department of Finance Thomas K. Shoyama Public Policy Lecture (Room: FSS 2005) Chair: Jean-Michel Catta (Department of Finance, Government of Canada) Raj Chetty (Harvard University)Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Evidence and Policy Implications
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm	Reception (Room: FSS 4007)
6:30 pm – 10:00 pm	Conference dinner National Arts Center Fountain room

Friday, November 7

8:00 am – 8:30 am	Coffee, juices and muffins
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Session 4: Optimal Taxation (Room: FSS 4004) Chair: Ross Hickey (University of British Columbia Okanagan) Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant (Institute for New Economic Thinking) and Louis Perrault (Queen’s University) Decision-making in Poverty, Savings and Redistribution Discussant: Ray Rees (University of Munich) Elisabeth Gugl (University of Victoria), Sinan Ozel, and Linda Welling (University of Victoria) The Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Individual vs. Joint Taxation in a Dynamic Bargaining Model with Renegotiation Discussant: Louis Perrault (Queen’s University)
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Break and refreshments
10:30 am – 12:00 pm	Session 5: Political Economy in Decentralized States (Room: FSS 4004) Chair: Katherine Cuff (McMaster University) Sergio Galletta (University of Lugano) Direct Democracy, Partial Decentralization and Voter Information Discussant: Arianna Degan (Université du Québec à Montréal) Massimo Bordignon (Catholic University Milan), Matteo Gamlerio (University of Warwick), and Gilberto Turati (University of Turin) Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance and Political Selection Discussant: Philippe de Donder (Toulouse School of Economics)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Session 6: Lobbying (Room: FSS 4004) Chair: Stanley Winer (Carleton University) Ross Hickey (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) The Market for Lobbying Services in Canada Discussant: Jean-Denis Garon (Université du Québec à Montréal) Christopher Cotton (Queen’s University) and Arnaud Dellis (Université Laval) Informational Lobbying and Agenda Distortion Discussant: Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Glendon College)