Annual Conference
Program
CPEG 2017 Conference
2-4 November 2017,
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario
Thursday, November 2, 2017
| 3:30-4:00 pm | Registration and Cookies |
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| 4:00-5:30 pm | Session 1 – Chair: Chris Cotton (Queen’s)
Tilman Klumpp (Alberta) “Majoritarian Sequential Blotto Games”; Ming Li (Concordia) “On the Paradox of Mediocracy”; |
| 5:45-7:30 pm | Kickoff Reception, Location: Grizzly Grill (you are on your own for dinner) |
Friday, November 3, 2017
| 8:30-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast and Coffee |
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| 9:00-10:30 am | Session 2 – Chair: Maria Gallego (Wilfrid Laurier)
Arianna Degan (UQAM) “Accountability and Political Competition”; Jean Guillaume Forand (Waterloo) “Civil Service and the Growth of Government”; |
| 10:30-10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 pm | Session 3 – Chair: Arnaud Dellis (UQAM)
Al Slivinski (Western) “Informational Industrial Blackmail” (co-authored with David Raiha); Dan Bernhardt (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Reelection and Renegotiation: The Political Economy of International Agreements” (co-authored with Peter Buisseret); |
| 12:15-1:15 pm | Lunch on site |
| 1:15-2:15 pm | Session 4 – Chair: Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Glendon College, York)
Kunyu Wang (Ottawa) “Subnational Politics and Foreign Direct Investment: First Causal Evidence” (student presentation, no discussant) Maggie Jones (Queen’s) “Student Aid and the Distribution of Educational Attainment” (student presentation, no discussant) |
| 2:15-2:30 pm | Break |
| 2:30-4:00 pm | Session 5 – Chair: Brant Abbott (Queen’s)
Ross Hickey (UBC Okanagan) “Taxes and Charitable Giving in Canada”; Ray Rees (Munich) “How do Entrepreneurial Portfolios Respond to Income Taxation?” (co-authored with Frank Rossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar and Viktor Steiner); |
| 4:00-4:15 pm | Break |
| 4:15-5:15 pm | Invited Lecture
Stephen Coate (Cornell) “On the Dynamics of Community Development (co-authored with Levon Barseghyan)” |
| 6:00-9:00 pm | Reception and Dinner at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston Waterfront |
Saturday, November 4, 2017
| 8:30-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast and Coffee |
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| 9:00-10:30 am | Session 6 – Chair: Stefan Dodds (Winnipeg)
Steeve Mongrain (Simon Fraser) “The Price May Actually be Right; Potential Benefits of Profit Shifting” (co-authored with David Oh and Tanguy van Ypersele); Philippe De Donder (UQAM) “How is the Trade-off between Adverse Selection and Discrimination Risk Affected by Genetic Testing? Theory and Experiment” |
| 10:30-10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 pm | Session 7 – Chair: Katherine Cuff (McMaster)
Donna Feir (Victoria) “The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains” (co-authored with Rob Gillezeau and Maggie Jones); Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM) “Demand for Long-term Care Insurance in Canada”; |
| 12:15-1:15 pm | Lunch on site |
| 1:15-2:15 pm | Invited Lecture Erik Snowberg (UBC) “Willingness-To-Pay and Willingness-To-Accept are Probably Less Correlated than you Think” |
| 2:30-4:00 pm | Session 8 – Chair: Chris Cotton (Queen’s)
Arnaud Dellis (UQAM) “Overlobbying and Pareto-improving Agenda Constraint”; Arthur Silve (Laval) “Democratic Spillovers – Rent-seeking Elites, Mobile Capital, and the Coevolution of Political Institutions”; |
| 4:00 pm | End of Conference |
