Public Economics UK Conference 2011
Thursday 26 May - Friday 27 May
Sponsored by HM Revenue and Customs, HM Treasury and the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
The organising committee of Public Economics UK (PEUK) invite you to attend the 2011 Public Economics conference, sponsored by HM Treasury, HMRC and the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.
The conference will take place from 10:45 on Thursday 26 May and will close at 15:30 on Friday 27 May 2011. The Public Economics UK conference will be held at the Oxford Spires Four Pillars Hotel, Abingdon Road, Oxford, OX1 4PS (website). The programme of speakers and conference timings is available to download here. Papers will be available for download once they have been received, however not all sessions have an accompanying paper.
Programme
Thursday, May 26th
10.45am – 11.15am REGISTRATION
11 .15am – 12.45pm SESSION: Import Tariffs and Capital Gains Tax
Chair: Michael Devereux (Oxford)
• Mirco Tonin* (Southampton) “Enforcing import tariffs (and other taxes)”
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• Zhonglan Dai (Dallas), Douglas Shackelford* (North Carolina) and Harold Zhang (Dallas) “Capital Gains Taxes and the Reward-to-Risk Ratio”
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2.45pm - 2.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm - 2.15pm Aliya Saied (HMRC): "The HMRC Data Lab"
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2.15pm – 3.15pm POLICY PANEL: Health Care Reform Chair: Tim Besley (LSE)
• Carol Propper (Imperial), Alan Gerber (Yale), Nick Bosanquet (Imperial)
3.15pm – 3.45pm COFFEE
3.45pm – 5.45pm SESSION: Corporation, Capital and Financial Taxes
Chair: Clemens Fuest (Oxford)
• HMRC “Estimating the effect of corporation tax changes”
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• Wiji Arulampalam (Warwick), Mike Devereux* (Oxford) and Federica Liberini (Warwick) “How do taxes affect cross-border acquisitions?”
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Discussion: Taxing Financial Transactions.
6.00pm DRINKS AT THE BAR
7.30pm DINNER Speaker: Andrew Dilnot (Oxford)
Friday, May 27th
9.00am – 10.45am SESSION: Education Policy
Chair: Hamish Low (Cambridge)
• “The design of the university system” Gianni de Fraja (Leicester)
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• “The impact of fees on participation rates” Lorraine Dearden (Institute of Education)
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• “Financial implications of reforms for higher education institutions”
Haroon Chowdry (IFS)
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10.45am – 11.00am COFFEE
11.00am -12.00pdm SESSION: Labour Supply
Chair: Paul Johnson (IFS)
• Richard Blundell (UCL), Antoine Bozio (IFS) and Guy Laroque* (UCL) “Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: working hours in the US, UK and France”
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12.00pm - 1.00pm POLICY SESSION: Fiscal Consolidation
• Sam Beckett (HMT)
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• Tim Besley (LSE)
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1.00pm – 2.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm - 3.30pm SESSION: Political Economy
Chair: Claire Leaver (Oxford)
• Oliver Denk (LSE) “National swings and political accountability: theory and application to US governors”
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• Pablo Casas-Arce* (Pompeu Fabra) and Albert Saiz (Pennsylvania) “Female politicians in power: unwilling, ineffective or held back”
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3.30pm CONFERENCE CLOSES
* Denotes presenter
If you have any questions about the event please email cbtevents@sbs.ox.ac.uk .