8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Chair: Robin Boadway, Queen's University

9:00 - 10:15 am

James Amegashie, University of Guelph, Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with Application to Foreign Aid

10:15 - 10:30 am COFFEE

10:30 - 11:45 am

Jay Wilson, Michigan State University (with Dhammika Dharmapala and Joel Slemrod), Optimal Tax Remittance with Firm-Level Administrative Costs

11:45 - 1:00 pm

Pierre Pestieau, University of Liège (with Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder and Dario Moldanado), Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing

1:00 - 2:15 pm LUNCH

AFTERNOON

Chair: Nicolas Marceau, Université du Québec à Montréal

2:15 - 3:30 pm

Arianna Degan, Université du Québec à Montréal (with Antonio Merlo), Do Voters Vote Sincerely?

3:30 - 3:45 pm COFFEE

3:45 - 5:00 pm

Michael Smart, University of Toronto (with Peter Egger and Marko Köthenbürger), Disproportionate influence? Special-interest politics under proportional and majoritarian electoral systems