8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Chair: Robin Boadway

9:00 - 10:00 am

Francisco Gonzalez, Unversity of Calgary (with Jean-François Wen), Social Spending as the Choice of the Governing Elite.

10:00 - 10:15 am COFFEE

10:15 - 12:15 am

Al Slivinski, Unversity of Western Ontario (with Jim Davies), The Public Economics of Forecasting and Insurance.

Toshihiro Ihori, Tokyo University (with Takero Doi), Soft-Budget Constraints and Local Expenditures.

12:15 - 1:30 pm LUNCH

AFTERNOON

Chair: Jean-François Tremblay

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Nicolas Marceau, UQAM (with Steeve Mongrain and Jay Wilson), Why Do Most Countries Set High Tax Rates on Capital?

Mario Jametti, York University (with Marius Brülhart), Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan?

3:30 - 3:45 pm COFFEE

3:45 - 4:45 pm

Stan Winer, Carleton University (with George Tridimas and Walter Hettich), Social Welfare and Coercion in Public Economics.