ZEW PUBLIC FINANCE 2016: ZEW PUBLIC FINANCE 2016
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, April 25th Tuesday, April 26th

Monday, April 25th

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09:00-10:30 Session 1A: Local Public Economics
Location: Room 1
09:00
Municipal Mergers and Economic Activity: Evidence from Germany ( abstract )
09:30
Local labor market effects of public employment ( abstract )
10:00
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state ( abstract )
09:00-10:30 Session 1B: European Unemployment Insurance
Location: Heinz-König-Hall
09:00
Drowned by Numbers? Designing an EU-wide Unemployment Insurance ( abstract )
09:30
A European Unemployment Insurance System: Redistributive and stabilizing effects ( abstract )
10:00
An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives Using Micro Data ( abstract )
12:00-13:00 Session : Lunch
Location: Meeting Hall
13:00-14:30 Session 2A: Corporate Taxation I
Location: Room 1
13:00
Corporate Flat Tax Reforms and Businesses’ Location Choices. Evidence from Switzerland ( abstract )
13:30
CORPORATE INCOME TAX REFORM IN THE EU ( abstract )
14:00
Taxing Away M&A: The Effect of Corporate Capital Gains Taxes on Acquisition Activity ( abstract )
13:00-14:30 Session 2B: Political Economy
Location: Room 2
13:00
Helping the Neighbor out: Financial Solidarity in Germany and the European Union ( abstract )
13:30
If you want me to stay, pay: a model of asymmetric federalism in centralised countries ( abstract )
14:00
Candidate self- and voter selection: Evidence from a free market for executive political candidates ( abstract )
13:00-14:30 Session 2C: Fiscal Transfers
Location: Heinz-König-Hall
13:00
Fiscal transfers and risk sharing in monetary union ( abstract )
13:30
Absorbing Shocks: The Role of Rainy Day Funds and Transfers in a Fiscal Union ( abstract )
14:00
Remittances and Public Finances: Evidence from Oil-Price Shocks ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 3A: Taxation and Employment
Location: Room 1
15:00
Learning Dynamics in Tax Bunching at the Kink: Evidence from Ecuador ( abstract )
15:30
Income taxation with frictional labor supply ( abstract )
16:00
Employment Effects of Local Business Taxes ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 3B: Fiscal Stabilization in the Great Recession
Location: Heinz-König-Hall
15:00
Determinants of sub-sovereign bond yield spreads – The role of fiscal fundamentals and federal bailout expectations ( abstract )
15:30
Who's Coming to the Rescue? Revenue-Sharing Slumps and Implicit Bailouts during the Great Recession ( abstract )
16:00
Crisis, Austerity and Automatic Stabilization ( abstract )
17:00-18:30 Session 4A: EU Budget
Location: Room 1
17:00
Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners' Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union ( abstract )
17:30
EU Taxes as Genuine Own Resource to Finance the EU Budget – Pros, Cons and Sustainability-oriented Criteria to Evaluate Potential Tax Candidates ( abstract )
18:00
The political economy of EU-funds in Poland 2009 - 2011 ( abstract )
17:00-18:30 Session 4B: Behavioural Responses to Taxation
Location: Heinz-König-Hall
17:00
How do small firms respond do tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers ( abstract )
17:30
Responses of Firms to Tax and Administrative Rules: Evidence from Armenia ( abstract )
18:00
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Transfer Taxation: Bunching Evidence from Germany ( abstract )
Tuesday, April 26th

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09:00-10:30 Session 5A: Fiscal Competition
Location: Room 1
09:00
International tax competition and the deficit bias ( abstract )
09:30
Commercial Land Use and Interjurisdictional Competition ( abstract )
10:00
Can revenue equalisation mitigate tax competition? Ad valorem, residence-based taxation in a federation ( abstract )
09:00-10:30 Session 5B: Public Budgets
Location: Heinz-König-Hall
09:00
Housing Boom-Busts, Temporary Windfalls, and Local Government Budgets ( abstract )
09:30
Revenue scarcity and government outsourcing: Causal evidence from Norwegian local governments ( abstract )
10:00
The Flypaper Effect in Municipal Finance: A Regression Kink Design ( abstract )
12:00-13:00 Session : Lunch
Location: Meeting Hall
13:00-15:00 Session S: Special Session - OECD Fiscal Federalism Network
Location: Brussels
13:00
Regional GDP in OECD countries: how has inequality developed over time? ( abstract )
13:25
Fiscal decentralisation and regional disparities ( abstract )
13:50
Fiscal decentralisation and income inequality ( abstract )
14:15
Intergovernmental grants, pro- or counter-cyclical? ( abstract )
14:40
Fiscal equalisation in OECD countries: main policy issues ( abstract )
15:30-17:00 Session 6A: Corporate Taxation II
Location: Room 1
15:30
Lowering Corporate Tax Rates to Compete over Profits: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight? ( abstract )
16:00
On the interdependency of profit-shifting channels and the effectiveness of anti-avoidance legislation ( abstract )
16:30
Corporate Taxes and the Location of U.S. Trademarks ( abstract )
15:30-17:00 Session 6B: Preferences and Compliance in Taxation
Location: Heinz-König-Hall
15:30
Taking Culture Into Account(ing): Cross-Country Differences in Preferences and Taxation ( abstract )
16:00
The Effects of Compliance Reminders on Tax Payments; Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Greece ( abstract )
16:30
Well-Being Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the US ( abstract )