Annual Conference
Program
CPEG 2018 Conference
2-3 November 2018,
York University, Toronto, Ontario,
Glendon College
Glendon Hall, Ballroom
Thursday, 1 November 2018:
| 20:00-23:00 | Welcome drinks and pre-conference social at Granite Brewery (245 Eglinton Ave. East, at Mount Pleasant Rd.) |
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Friday, 2 November 2018:
| 8:30-8:55 | Registration, continental breakfast and coffee (Glendon Hall, Ballroom) |
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| 8:55-9:00 | Welcome address – Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau, Chair of the 2018 Organizing Committee |
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 1 – Collective Action and Information Provision Chair: Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Glendon College, York) Davin Raiha (Ivey, Western) – Political Economy of Mobilizing Stakeholders (co-authored with Guy Holburn) Discussant: Jean-Denis Garon (UQAM) Arnaud Dellis (UQAM) – Subpoena Power and Informal Lobbying (co-authored with Mandar Oak) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 2 – Migration Chair: Ricardo Piqué (Ryerson) Andrea Craig (Windsor) – Commute Mode and Residential Choice Location Discussant: Stefan Staubli (Calgary) Wenshuang Yu (Calgary) – Child Care Subsidy and Chain Migration (co-authored with Sasha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan) |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch on site |
| 13:15-14:45 | Session 3 – Electoral Politics Chair: Arianna Degan (UQAM) Christian Dippel (UCLA) – Public Sector Pensions as Pork: Evidence from U.S. Cities Discussant: (No discussion) Leyla Karakas (Syracuse) – The Power of Identity Politics: A Behavioral Political-Economy Analysis of Policy-Making (co-authored with Devashish Mitra) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00-16:30 | Session 4 – Labour and Health Chair: Jeffrey Hicks (UBC) Brent Hickman (Queen’s) – Pre-College Human Capital Investment and Affirmative Action: A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions (co-authored with Aaron Bodoh-Creed) Discussant: Yu Wang (Ryerson) Kevin Devereux (University College Dublin) – Re-evaluating the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: Correcting for Procrastination (co-authored with Mona Balesh Abadi and Farah Oman) |
| 16:30-16:45 | Break |
| 16:45-17:45 | Invited Lecture Philippe de Donder (UQAM) –The Long-Term Care Insurance Puzzle: Evidence from Quebec and Ontario |
| 19:00-21:30 | Dinner at Coquine Restaurant, 2075 Yonge St. (at Manor Rd., a few blocks south of Eglinton Ave.) |
Saturday, 3 November 2018
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 5 – Lobbying Chair: Ming Li (Concordia) Christian Cox (Michigan State) – Lobbying for Government Appropriations Discussant: Christopher Cotton (Queen’s) Thomas Groll (Columbia) – Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interests and Hired Guns (co-authored with Christopher Ellis) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 6 – Taxation Chair: Oana Secrieru (RMC) Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM) – Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness (co-authored with Marc Fleurbaey, Pierre Pestieau, Grégory Ponthière, and Stéphane Zuber) Discussant: Katherine Cuff (McMaster) Louis Perrault (Georgia State) – Optimal Taxation of Families with Endogenous Fertility (co-authored with John Gibson) |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch on site |
| 13:15-14:15 | Invited Lecture Adnan Khan (LSE) – Experimental Evidence on Agency Problems and Reforming Public Sector Organisations |
| 14:15-14:30 | Break |
| 14:30-16:00 | Session 7 – Electoral Accountability Chair: Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Glendon College, York) Peter Bils (Princeton) – Disproportionate Policy Responses and Executive Expertise Discussant: Jean Guillaume Forand (Waterloo) Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC-Montréal) – Electoral Incentives: The Interaction Between Candidate Selection and Electoral Rules (co-authored with Benoît Crutzen) |
| 16:00 | Closing remarks and end of conference |
Attendees
List of attendees for this year's annual conference
Last Name
First Name
Organisation
Peter
Bils
Princeton
Christopher
Cotton
Queen's
Christian
Cox
Michigan State
Andrea
Craig
Windsor
Katherine
Cuff
McMaster
Philippe
De Donder
UQAM
Arnaud
Dellis
UQAM
Kevin
Devereux
University College Dublin
Christian
Dippel
UCLA
Jean Fuillaume
Forand
Waterloo
Maria
Gallego
Wilfrid Laurier
Jean-Denis
Garon
UQAM
Johanna
Goertz
Guelph
Thomas
Groll
Columbia
Brent
Hickman
Queen's
Jeffrey
Hicks
UBC
Vincent
Hildebrand
Glendon College, York
Shania
John
Glendon College, York
Leyla
Karakas
Syracuse
Adnan
Khan
LSE
Marie-Louise
Leroux
UQAM
Ming
Li
Concordia
Nicolas-Guillaume
Martineau
Glendon College, York
Boriana
Miloucheva
Toronto
Louis
Perrault
Georgia State
Ricardo
Piqué
Ryerson
Davin
Raiha
Ivey, Western
Nicolas
Sahuguet
HEC-Montreal
Oana
Secrieru
RMC
Al
Slivinski
Western
Stefan
Staubli
Calgary
David
Walker-Jones
Toronto
Yu
Wang
Ryeson
Wenshuang
Yu
Calgary
