8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Chair: Robin Boadway, Queen's University

9:00 - 10:0 am

Hideo Konishi, Boston College (with Taiji Furusawa), Contributing or Free-Riding? A Theory of Endogenous Lobby Formation

10:00 - 10:15 am COFFEE

10:15 - 12:15 am

Jean-François Tremblay, University of Ottawa (with Robin Boadway and Zhen Song), The Efficiency of Voluntary Pollution Abatement when Countries can Commit

Jared Carbone, University of Calgary (with Thomas Rutherford and Carsten Helm), The Case for International Emission Trade in the Absence of Cooperative Climate Policy

12:15 - 1:30 pm LUNCH

AFTERNOON

Chair: Nicolas Marceau, Université du Québec à Montréal

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas (with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay), The Interplay between Preemptive and Defensive Counterterrorism Measures: A Two-Stage Game

Rob McMillan, University of Toronto (with Patrick Bayer), Choice and Competition in Local Education Markets

3:30 - 3:45 pm COFFEE

3:45 - 4:45 pm

Stefan Dodds, Carleton University (with Chetan Dave), Nosiness, Loss Aversion and the Stability of Sen's Paradox