2019: University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University

Program

CPEG 2019 Conference

October 25-26, 2019
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Balsillie School of International Affairs
67 Erb St. W. (room 1-42)


Day 1: Friday October 25

8h30-9h00 Breakfast and Registration
9h00-10h30 Session 1: Institutions and government
(Chair Maria Gallego)
Raphael Godefroy (Montreal) “National institutions and economic insecurity” (with J. Lewis)
Discussant Nils-Petter Lagerl of (York)

Erik Snowberg (UBC), “An organisational theory of state capacity” (with M. Ting)
Discussant Arthur Blouin (Toronto)

10h30-10h45 Break(coffee)
10h45-12h15 Session 2: Incentives and information
(Chair Jean Guillaume Forand)
John Weymark (Vanderbilt). “Strategy-proof provision of multiple public goods without range restrictions” (with S. Serizawa)
Discussant: Sean Horan (Montreal)

Ming Li (Concordia), “Persuasion bias in science: an experiment on strategic sample selection” (with A. Degan and H. Xie)
Discussant: Christopher Cotton (Queen’s)

12h15-13h15 Lunch
13h15-14h45 Session 3: Politics and growth
(Chair Maria Gallego)
Kurt Annen (Guelph), “Better policies from policy-selective aid?” (with S. Knack)
Discussant: Francisco Gonzalez (Waterloo)

Dodge Cahan (Alberta), “The Democratic-Republican growth gap and the partisan balance of the state governments” (with N. Potrafke)
Discussant: Taylor Wright (Ottawa)

14h45-15h00 Break(coffee)
15h00-16h30 Session 4: Mediation and conflict
(Chair Jean Guillaume Forand)
Kristy Buzard (Syracuse), “Inefficient concessions and mediation” (with B. Home)
Discussant Arnaud Dellis (UQAM)

Ali Kamranzadeh (Western), “Fairness versus favoritism in conflict mediation” (with C. Zheng)
Discussant Johanna Goertz (Guelph)

16h30-16h45 Break(coffee and cookies)
16h45-17h45 John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy (JDI) Distinguished lecture
Steven Callander, Stanford GSB “The power of referential advice” (with N. Lambert and N. Matousheck)
(ChairMaria Gallego)
18h30 Drinks and dinner (19h3o): Nick and Nat’s Uptown 21,
21 King Street N.

 


Day 2: Saturday October 26

8h30-9h00 Breakfast
9h00-10h30 Session 5: Tax competition
(Chair Jean Guillaume Forand)
Till Gross (Carleton), “Residence- and source-based capital taxation in open economies with infinitely-lived consumers” (with P. Klein and M. Makris)
Discussant: Adam Lavecchia (McMaster)

John Wilson (Michigan State), “Tax competition with mobile labor, residents and capital” (with D.R. Agrawal and W.H Hoyt)
Discussant: John Burbidge (Waterloo)

10h30-10h45 Break(coffee)
10h45-12h15 Session 6: Bargaining and tax compliance
(Chair Maria Gallego)
Duk Gyoo Kim (Mannheim), “Multilateral bargaining over the division of losses” (with W. Lim)
Discussant: Huan Xie (Concordia)

Peter Morrow (Toronto), “Value added tax compliance” (with M. Smart and A. Swistak)
Discussant: Christian Cox (Michigan State)

12h15-13h15 Lunch
13h15-14h15 Invited lecture: Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia Economics and SIPA) “Intergenerational wealth formation over the life -cycle: evidence from Danish wealth records 1984-2013”
(Chair Jean Guillaume Forand)
14h15-14h30 Break(coffee)
14h30-16h00 Session 7: Effectiveness of government taxation and spending
(Chair Maria Gallego)
Pier-Andre Bouchard St-Amant (ENAP),”Efficient university funding formulas”
Discussant: Mike Hoy (Guelph)

Davin Raiha (Indiana-Kelley), “Does the foreign buyers’ tax reduce foreign demand? Evidence from superstitious beliefs in real estate pricing” (with L. Han)
Discussant: Andrea Craig (Windsor)

Evidence from superstitious beliefs in real estate pricing” (with L. Han)
Discussant: Andrea Craig (Windsor)

Attendees

List of attendees for this year's annual conference

Last Name
First Name
Organisation

J. Atsu

Amegashie

University of Guelph

Arcila-Vasquez

Andres

University of Waterloo

Kurt

Annen

University of Guelph

Pier-André

Bouchard St-Amant

École nationale d'administration publique

John

Burbidge

University of Waterloo

Kristy

Buzard

Syracuse University

Dodge

Cahan

University of California, San Diego

Steven

Callander

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Christopher

Corron

Queen's University

Christian

Cox

Michigan State University

Andrea

Craig

University of Windsor

Katherine

Cuff

McMaster University, Economics

Arnaud

Dellis

UQAM

Jean Guillaume

Forand

University of Waterloo

Maria

Gallego

Wilfrid Laurier University

Raphael

Godefroy

Universty of Montreal

Johanna

Goertz

University of Guelph

Francisco

Gonzales

University of Waterloo

Till

Gross

Carleton University

Sean

Horan

University of Montreal

Michael

Hoy

University of Guelph

Nesterova

Iuliia

University of Waterloo

Blit

Joel

University of Wateroo

Ali

Kamranzadeh

University of Western Ontario

Marc

Kilgour

Wilfrid Laurier University

Duk Gyoo

Kim

University of Mannheim

Wojciech

Kopczuk

Columbia University

Nils-Petter

Lagerlöf

York University

Adam

Lavecchia

McMaster University

Ming

Li

Concordia University

Peter

Morrow

University of Toronto

Christine

Neill

Wilfrid Laurier University

Davin

Raiha

Indiana University

David

Rosé

Wilfrid Laurier University

Kathleen

Rybczynski

University of Waterloo

Al

Slivinski

Wetern University

Erik

Snowberg

The University of British Columbia

Nguyen

Trien

University of Waterloo

John

Weymark

Vanderbilt University

John

Wilson

Michigan State University

Taylor

Wright

University of Ottawa

Huan

Xie

Concordia University

Aidi

Yu

University of Waterloo

Arezou

Zaresani

University of Melbourne