MORNING

8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Chair:  Robin Boadway, Queen's

9:00 - 10:00 am
Firouz Gahvari, Illinois (with Enlinson de Mattos), Conditional Cash Transfer, Public Provision of Private Goods, and Income Redistribution

10:00 - 10:15 am COFFEE

10:15 - 12:15 am
Craig Brett, Mount Allison (with John Weymark), Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings in a Two Class Econimy

Michel Strawczynski, Bank of Israel (Momi Dahan), The Optimal Asymptotic Income Tax Rate

12:15 - 1:30 pm LUNCH

AFTERNOON

Chair: Nicolas Marceau, UQAM

1:30 - 3:30 pm
Ray Rees, Munich, Some Extensions to the Theory of Optimal Income Taxation

Frances Woolley, Carleton (with Linda Welling), Bigots or Bayesians? A Model of Profiling in Law Enforcement

3:30 - 3:45 pm COFFEE

3:45 - 4:45 pm
Jack Leach, McMaster (with Seungjin Han), A Bargaining Model of Tax Competition