2016: UQAM

Friday November 4th

8.30 – 9 am: Registration.

9 – 10.30 am: Spending to Influence Opinions

Chair: Arnaud Dellis (ESG-UQAM)

• • a.     Maria Gallego (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Norman Schofield (Washington University in Saint Louis)
     “Modelling the effect of campaign advertising on US presidential elections when differences across states matter” link to paper
    Discussant: Jean Guillaume Forand (University of Waterloo)
  • b.     Anthony Heyes (University of Ottawa), Thomas P. Lyon (University of Michigan), and Steve Martin (University of Ottawa)
    “Salience games: Keeping environmental issues in and out of the public eye” link to paper
    Discussant: Jean-Denis Garon (ESG-UQAM)

10.30 – 11 am: Coffee break.

11 am – 12.30 pm: Education

Chair: Frances Woolley (Carleton University)

• • a.     Michael Gilraine (University of Toronto)
    “Human capital formation and school accountability” link to paper
    Discussant: Geoffrey Dunbar (Bank of Canada) 
  • b.     Youngmin Park (Bank of Canada)
    “Heterogeneity in parental altruism and optimal higher education subsidies” link to paper
    Discussant: Marcel Gérard (Université catholique de Louvain)

12.30 – 1.30 pm: Lunch.

1.30 – 3 pm: Charities

Chair: Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Glendon College)

• • a.     Alisa Tazhitdinova (McMaster University)
    “Optimal reporting thresholds: Theory and evidence from charitable contributions” link to paper
    Discussant: Martin Farnham (University of Victoria) 
  • b.     Bradley Minaker (McMaster University)
    “How effective are charity managers? Evidence from a panel of charities” link to paper
    Discussant: Nicholas Lawson (ESG-UQAM)

3 – 4 pm: Keynote lecture (sponsored by the Economics Department, ESG-UQAM)

Chair: Marie-Louise Leroux (ESG-UQAM)

Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics)

“Couple bargaining and tax design” link to paper

4 – 4.30 pm: Coffee break.

4.30 – 6 pm: Bargaining

• • Chair: Craig Brett (Mount Allison University) 
  • a.     Christopher Cotton (Queen’s University), Marina Agranov (Cal Tech), and Chloe Tergiman (Penn State)
    “Persistence of power: Repeated multilateral bargaining” link to paper
    Discussant: Justin Leroux (HEC Montréal) 
  • b.     Duk Gyoo Kim (Cal Tech)
    “Legislative bargaining without replacement” link to paper
    Discussant: Elisabeth Gugl (University of Victoria)

7.30 pm: Dinner.

Saturday November 5th

8.30 – 10 am: Fiscal Federalism

Chair: Jean-Denis Garon (ESG-UQAM)

• • a.     Dirk Foremny (IEB, Universitat de Barcelona) and Albert Solé-Ollé (IEB, Universitat de Barcelona)
    “Who’s coming to the rescue? Revenue-sharing slumps and implicit bailouts during the Great Recession” link to paper
    Discussant: Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Glendon College) 
  • b.     Till Gross (Carleton University)
    “Optimal fiscal policy in a transfer union” link to paper
    Discussant: Alex Armstrong (Department of Finance)

10 – 10.30 am: Coffee break.

10.30 am – 12 pm: Optimal Taxes

Chair: Robin Boadway (Queen’s University)

• • a.     Adam Lavecchia (University of Toronto)
    “Minimum wage policy with optimal taxes and involuntary unemployment”  link to paper
    Discussant: Craig Brett (Mount Allison University) 
  • b.     Louis Perrault (Georgia State University)
    “Optimal taxation with work experience as a risky investment” link to paper
    Discussant: Kevin Spiritus (KU Leuven)

12 – 1 pm: Lunch.

1 – 2 pm:

• • Keynote lecture (sponsored by the Industrial Alliance Research Chair on the Economics of Demographic Change)
    Chair: Raquel Fonseca (ESG-UQAM) 
  • Jonathan Gruber (MIT) “Resolving choice inconsistencies in health insurance plans”

2 – 2.30 pm: Coffee break.

2.30 – 4 pm: Measuring the Welfare Effects of Policies

• Chair: Arianna Degan (ESG-UQAM)
• a.     Arezou Zaresani (University of Calgary)
  “Adjustment costs and incentives to work: evidence from a disability insurance program” link to paper
  Discussant: Marie-Louise Leroux (ESG-UQAM) 
• b.     Kory Kroft (University of Toronto, NBER), Jean-William P. Laliberté (University of Toronto), René Leal-Vizcaíno (Northwestern University), and Matthew J. Notowidigdo (Northwestern University, NBER)
  “The welfare effects of commodity taxation with endogenous product variety: Theory and evidence” link to paper
  Discussant: Mark Tremblay (McMaster University)