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Association for Public Economic Theory PET 02 Third International Conference on Public Economics Paris, July 4th-6th 2002 Conference Program Members of the ADRES’ Administration Council : · Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · L'Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques · La Fondation Banque de France · La Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations · Le CEPREMAP · Le Commissariat Général du Plan · Electricité de France · La Direction de la Prévision (du ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan) Program Committee Bernard Cornet (University of Paris 1), Chair Hubert Kempf (University of Paris 1), co-Chair Cuong Le Van (CNRS, University of Paris 1), co-Chair Myrna Wooders (University of Warwick), co-Chair Committee Members Marcus Berliant (Washington University) Robin Boadway (Queens University) Raouf Boucekkine (IRES Louvain) Bernard Caillaud (CERAS) John Conley (University of Illinois) Luis Corchon (Carlos III University, Madrid) Jacques Cremer (CNRS - GREMAQ) Hossein Farzin (University of California-Davis) Françoise Forges (University of Cergy-Pontoise) Roger Gordon (University of Michigan) Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France) Leonid Hurwicz (University of Minnesota) Philippe Jehiel (CERAS) Jean-Dominique Lafay (LAEP, University of Paris 1) Didier Laussel (University of Aix-Marseille 2) Ben Lockwood (University of Warwick) Maurice Marchand (CORE) Alfredo Medio (University of Venice) Jean-François Mertens (CORE, UCL) Kazuo Nishimura (Kyoto University) Frank Page (University of Alabama) Pierre Pestieau (University of Liège) Thomas Piketty (CEPREMAP, EHESS) Alain Trannoy (University of Cergy-Pontoise) Organizing Committee Nizar Allouch (University of Warwick) Damien Gaumont (University of Paris 2) Pascal Gourdel (University of Paris 1) Hubert Kempf (University of Paris 1) Cuong Le Van (University of Paris 1) Etienne Lehmann (University of St-Etienne) Filipe Martins Da Rocha (U. Paris 1) Flavio Menezes (Australian National Univ.) Fabien Moizeau (Université de Paris 1) Bertrand Wigniolle (University of Paris 1) Conference Administrator Tuyên Ngoc (University of Paris 1) Program Overview Wednesday 3rd 7.30 pm Welcome Reception Thursday 4th 8.00 - 9.00 Registration 9.00 - 9.45 Plenary Lecture 10.00 - 11.15 Session 1 11.15 - 11.45 Coffee Break 11.45 - 1.00 Session 2 1.00 - 3.00 Lunch 3.00 - 3.45 Plenary Lecture 4.00 - 5.15 Session 3 5.15 - 5.45 Coffee Break 5.45 - 7.00 Session 4 7.30 pm Buffet-Reception Friday 5th 9.00 - 9.45 Plenary Lecture 10.00 - 11.15 Session 5 11.15 - 11.45 Coffee Break 11.45 - 1.00 Session 6 1.00 - 3.00 Lunch 3:00 - 4.15 Session 7 4.15 - 4.45 Coffee Break 4.45 - 6.00 Session 8 6.00 pm Cocktail Saturday 6th 9.00 - 9.45 Plenary Lecture 10.00 - 11.15 Session 9 11.15 - 11.45 Coffee Break 11.45 - 1.00 Session 10 8.30 pm Jazz-Night on the Seine LOCATIONS Plenary lectures Thursday 4th morning : Sorbonne, Salle Liard Thursday 4th afternoon : Sorbonne, Salle Liard Friday 5th : Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Richelieu Saturday 6th : Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Richelieu Sessions Panthéon Room 1 : Salle 216 Room 2 : Salle des fêtes Room 3 : Salle 3 Room 8 : Salle 4 Sorbonne Room 5 : Salle 306 Room 6 : Salle 204 Room 7 : Salle 205 Room 4 : Salle 206 Room 9 : Salle 308 Room 10 : Amphithéâtre Liard PROGRAM · Each presentation should last no more than 20 minutes (even for parallel sessions with only two speakers), thus, leaving 5 minutes for discussion and changing sessions. · Unless it is stated, the chairman (chairwoman) is the last speaker. Wednesday 3rd 16.00 - 19.00 Registration: Galerie Soufflot, University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, 12 Place du Panthéon 75005 Paris (Métro Luxembourg) Thursday 4th 8.00 – 9.00 Registration Galerie Soufflot, University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, 12 Place du Panthéon 75005 Paris (Métro Luxembourg) 8.50 - 9.00 Welcome : salle Liard, Sorbonne Bernard Cornet ( University of Paris 1) 9.00 – 9.45 Plenary lecture : salle Liard, Sorbonne Jean-Jacques Laffont (IDEI and U. of Toulouse) Renegotiation of Concession Contracts in Latin America Chair : Frank H. Page, Jr. (U. of Alabama) 10.00 – 11.15 Session 1 Room 1 : Lobbying Room 2 : Tax competition Francesco GIOVANNONI (U. of Newcastle) Christoph SAUER (U. of Goettingen) and Margit SCHRATZENSTALLER (U. of Giessen) Heterogeneous lobbying Strategies on international fiscal competition for Sebastian BAVETTA (U. of Palermo and LSE) and foreign direct investment in a model with impure Giorgio BELLETTINI (U. of Bologna) public inputs Lobbying on local public goods Amrita DHILLON, Myrna WOODERS and Ben ZISSIMOS (U. of Warwick) Guillaume CHEIKBOSSIAN (U. of Perpignan) Tax competition revisited Lobbying and rent-seeking for public goods in a fiscally centralized system Sam BUCOVETSKY (York U.) and Michael SMART (STICERD) Tax competition and revenue equalization Room 3: Public Good Provision Room 4: Experimental Economics 1 Massimo MORELLI (Ohio State U.) and Alessandra CASELLA, Andrew GELMAN Lise VESTERLUND (U. of Pittsburg) (U. of Columbia) and Thomas PALFREY (Caltech) Provision point mechanisms and over provision of Storable votes: initial experimental results public goods Arno RIEDL and Aljaz ULE (CREED) Martin KOLMAR (U. of Konstanz) Exclusion and cooperation in social network Endogenously excludable goods experiments Ali AL-NOWAIHI and Gary BOLTON (Penn State U.), Jordi BRANDTS Clive D FRASER (U. of Leicester) (CSIC) and Axel OCKENFELS (U. of Magdeburg) Will the public sector be too large in an economy Fair procedures. Evidence from games involving with club goods? lotteries Room 5: Social Security Room 6: Regulation Robert FENGE (U. of Munich), Silke ÛBELMESSER and Martin WERDING (CESifo) Axel GAUTIER (U. Bonn) On the optimal timing of implicit social security Regulation under financial constraints taxes over the life cycle N. BOCCARD (U. of Salerno) and Suzanne PECH (U. of Linz) X.Y. WAUTHY (CEREC and CORE) Tax incentives for private life annuities and the Ensuring quality provision in deregulated industries social security reform: effects on consumption and on adverse selection Jérôme POUYET (CERAS) and Anna BASSANINI (U. of Rome) Helmut CREMER (IDEI and GREMAQ), Jean-Marie LOZACHMEUR and Pierre PESTIAU (CREPP) Strategic choice of financing systems in regulated and interconnected industries Social security, retirement age and optimal income taxation Room 7: Social Choice 1 Room 8: Growth 1 Orhan ERDEM (Boiaziçi U. of Turkey) and Remzi Sonia BASSI (LAEP) SANVER (Istanbul Bilgi U.) Determinants of public spending in developing Minimal monotonic extensions of scoring rules countries. Evidence from countries of the M.E.N.A. region Reiko GOTOH, Kotaro SUZUMURA and Naoki YOSHIHARA (Yale U.) Karsten JESKE (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Existence of social ordering functions which embody Private international debt with risk of repudiation procedural values and consequential values Toshihiro IHORI (U. of Tokyo) Jean MERCIER-YTHIER (GREQAM) National emergency, security spending and growth Regular distributive social systems Session 1 Room 9: Matching 1 Room 10: Financial Structures and Currency Areas Guillaume HAERINGER and Jean-Bernard CHATELAIN (Banque de France), Myrna WOODERS (U. of Warwick) Andrea GENERALE (Bank of Italy), Ignacio HERNANDO (Bank of Spain), Job market with commitment Ulf von KALCKREUTH (Bank of Germany) and Philip VERMUELEN (European Central Bank) Pablo REVILLA APARICIO (U. Pablo of Olavide) Firm investment and monetary policy transmission in the Euro Area Many-to-one matching when the colleagues do matter Julius HORVATH (Central European U.) Szilvia PAPAI (U. of Notre-Dame) Optimum currency area theory and correlation of Unique cores in general matching shocks between the accession-candidate countries Michel BOUTILLIER, A. LABYE, C. LAGOUTTE, N. LEVY, A. MPACKO PRISO, V. OHEIX (MODEM), S. JUSTEAU (ESSCA Angers) and B. SEJOURNE (U. of Angers) Financial wealth of households and activities of the European financial intermediaries 11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break 11.45 – 1.00 Session 2 Room 1: Political Economy 1 Room 2: Tax Competition and Coordination Catherine HAFER and Susana PERALTA and Dimitri LANDA (New York U.) Tanguy van YPERSELE (CORE-UCL) Political formations under alternative decision rules Coordination of capital taxation among asymmetric countries Barbara VERONESE (STICERD) Marko KOTHENBURGER (U. of Munich) Should Prime Ministers be elected? Tax competition in a European-Style fiscal union with Philippe JEHIEL (CERAS) and decentralized leadership Jacques-François THISSE (CORE, CERAS, CEPR) Eckhard JANEBA (U. of Colorado) and How to win a decision in a federation Michael SMART (STICERD) Is targeted tax competition less harmful than its remedies ? Session 2 Room 3 : Free Rider Problems Room 4 M.J.RYAN (U. of Hull) Threshold incomes, public goods and Pareto improving free riding conditions Chris JONES (The Australian National U.) The optimal supply of public goods and distortionary taxes Wolfgang LEININGER (U. of Dortmund) Contests over public goods: evolutionary stability and the free-rider problem Room 5 : Social Security and Health Room 6 : Inequality William JACK (Georgetown U.) Ping WANG (Vanderbilt U.), Chien-Chieh HUANG (National Soo-cho U.) and Optimal redistributive taxation when individuals Derek LAING (Penn State U.) differ on two dimensions: The integration of health expenditure into a linear income tax. Crime and Poverty Vincenzo GALASSO (U. Bocconi) and Udo EBERT (U. of Oldenburg) Carlos BETHENCOURT (U. Carlos III of Madrid) Decomposable poverty measures when households differ in size Does