List of accepted papers (June 3rd) 1 European Integration and Employment, The Need for Fiscal Policies Coordination Auteurs GATTI MARETTE 2 dgatti@u-paris10,fr marette@inapg.inra.fr Christoph du University of Goettingen csauer@gwdg,de Tax Evasion and Social Interactions-Experimental Evidence Auteurs VILLEVAL 4 du MODEM du INRA-INAPG Strategies on international fiscal competition for foreign direct investment in a model with impure public inputs Auteurs SAUER 3 Donatella Stephan Marie-Claire du GATE villeval@gate,cnrs,fr Are you a doctor or a quack ? Provision of quality and self-regulation in a market for professional services Auteurs SESTINI 5 Roberta du University of Rome "La sestini@dis,uniroma1,it Many-to-one matching when the colleagues do matter Auteurs REVILLA APARICIO 6 Pablo du Universidad Pablo de prevapa@dee,upo,es Testable implications of asymmetric information models of insurance Auteurs SALANIE 7 Bernard du CREST salanie@ensae.fr Tax optimization under tax evasion : the role of penalty constraints Game Theory Auteurs VASIN VASINA Alexander Polina du Moscow State University vasin@cs,msu,su du Moscow State University 9 Economies allowing large clubs and multiple club memberships ; some preliminary results Auteurs ALLOUCH WOODERS Nizar Myrna du University of Warwick du University of Warwick ecsfn@csv.warwick.ac.uk M.Wooders@warwick.ac.uk 10 Technology adoption with production externalities Auteurs COLOMBO 12 Luca du Istituto di Economia e lcolombo@mi.unicatt.it Privatisations as price reforms : an analysis of consumers' welfare change in the UK Auteurs BRAU FLORIO 13 Rinaldo du University of Cagliari brau@unica.it Massimo du Dipartimento di du Universidad de Alicante Media, Society and Politics Auteurs ANDINA DIAZ 14 Ascension aandina@merlin,fae,ua,es Age Related Optimal Income Taxation Auteurs BLOMQUIST MICHELETTO Sören du Uppsala University soren.blomquist@nek.uu.se Luca du Università Bocconi luca.micheletto@uni-bocconi.it 15 Environmental taxation, tax competition and harmonization Auteurs CREMER Helmut GAHVARI 16 du IDEI - GREMAQ helmut@cict.fr Firouz du University of Illinois fgahvari@uiuc.edu Nuri du MEDEE - Université de nuri.senemek@univ- Philippe du CERAS jehiel@mail.enpc.fr Lobbying pour la politique commerciale : le cas de l'UE Political Economy Auteurs SENEMEK lille1,fr 17 How to win a decision in a federation Auteurs JEHIEL 18 Increasing Longetivity and Funding of Education Auteurs GRADSTEIN Mark KAGANOVICH 19 du Ben Gurion University grade@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Michael du Indiana University Mario du University of Using the Supply Schedule to Enhance Auteurs GILLI mario.gilli@unimib.it 20 Is fiscal co-operation always sustainable when regions di er in size ? Auteurs TAUGOURDEAU 21 Emmanuelle du EUREQUA taugour@univ-paris1,fr du University of Catania The experimental approach to the voluntary provision of public goods Auteurs FINOCCHIARO CASTRO 22 Massimo cmfino@unict.it Does majoritarian approval matter in selecting a social choice rule ? : an exploratory panel study Auteurs KARA SERTEL 23 Ayça E.G. Murat R, du Turkish Academy of du aycakara@ixir.com Turkish Academy of Risk aversion and risk perception under asymmetric information : a measuring based on data of car insurance contracts. Auteurs LEPINE 24 Nathalie du GRAPE nathlepine@aol,com Are Reallocation Models Right ? Auteurs KALLAI Ella du Alpha Bank Romania research @alphabank.ro E. Unal du Boiaziçi University zenginob@boun.edu.tr 25 Using revenue contests in yardstick regulation Auteurs ZENG_NOBUZ 26 Money, power and thye nucleolus Game Theory Auteurs MONTERO 27 Maria du University of Dortmund maria,montero@wiso,uni-dortmund,de Comparison of three collective choice procedures by two complexities Auteurs JOHNSON 28 Mark R. du M,J, Neeley School of M.Johnson3@tcu,edu Rational expectation can preclude tradeable emission permits Auteurs MATSUHISA 29 Takashi du Ibararaki mathisa@ge.ibaraki-ct.ac.jp Optimal taxation and factor mobility in an overlapping generations economy Auteurs CEBREIRO-GOMEZ 30 Ana du University of Essex acebr@essex.ac.uk Size difference as an obtacle to horizontal tax cooperation between localgovernments Auteurs MORER 32 Myriam du L.I.B.R.E. myr.mor@netcourrier.com Partisan monetary policy delegation in a supra-national federal state under a majority vote system Auteurs FRANCK GENNEQUIN 33 Raphaël Audrey du Université Paris II du LAEP audrey.gennequin@libertysurf.fr Federalism, devolution, and optimal regional grants : an asymmetric information approach Auteurs GRECO 34 Luciano du Università degli Studi di Luciano.Greco@decon.unipd.it Rattrapage technologique , recherche de rente et convergence économique Auteurs SOUISSI-KACHOURI 35 Najah du L.I.E.I. najah.souissi@fsegt.rnu.tn International environmental agreements - The role of foresight Auteurs DIAMANTOUDI 36 Effrosyni du University of Rochester Decentralization, yardstick competition, and the quality of public goods faye@econ.au.dk Auteurs BARANKAY 37 Iwan du University of Warwick i.barankay@warwick.ac.uk Product choice, taxation and switching costs : an application to car production Auteurs MYLES 38 Gareth D. du University of Exeter G.D.Myles@exeter.ac.uk How bad is bad taxation ? Disintermediation and illiquidity in a bank account debits tax model Auteurs ALBUQUERQUE 39 Pedro H. du University of Wisconsin - pedrohalbuquerque@yahoo.com Optimal assignment of liabilities Auteurs GONZALEZ 40 Patrick du CIRANO - GREEN - pgon@ecn.ulaval.ca Social security, retirement age and optimal income taxation Auteurs CREMER LOZACHMEUR PESTIAU 41 Helmut Jean-Marie Pierre du IDEI - GREMAQ du CREPP du CREPP helmut@cict.fr The theory of the distributive branch of public economics Auteurs KOLM 42 Serge-Christophe du E.H.E.S.S. Political formations under alternative decision rules Political Economy Auteurs HAFER 43 Catherine du New York University catherine.hafer@nyu.edu du GREQAM thoron@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr Which acceptable agreements are equilibria ? Game Theory Auteurs THORON Sylvie 44 On a generalized Spence-Mirrlees condition and a reallocation principle Auteurs CARLIER 45 Guillaume du Université Montesquieu - carlier@montesquieu.u-bordeaux. Tax relief mechanisms and the least taxed path for circulating income within a multinational Auteurs GERARD 46 Marcel du ARPEGE/FUCAM gerard(viz.gillard)@fucam.ac.be du University of Rochester igoz@troi.cc.rochester.edu &-Maxmin expected utility Auteurs KOPYLOV 47 Igor Transboundary pollution, asymmetric information and social welfare Auteurs BEN YOUSSEL 48 Slim du Université de Tunis El slim.benyoussef@gnet Privatization and investments : crowding-out effect vs financial diversification Auteurs GIRMENS GUILLARD 49 Guillaume Michel du EPEE du EPEE ggirmens@univ-evry.fr du York University onto.ca du STICERD msmart@groucho.economic.utor Tax competition and revenue equalization Auteurs 50 BUCOVETSKY Sam SMART Michael msmart@chass.utoronto.ca Prize dissipation in large contests with small entry costs Auteurs CORNES HARTLEY 51 Richard Roger du University of Nottingham Richard.Cornes@nottingham.ac.u du Keele University r.hartley@keele.ac.uk Drèze's criterion in a multi-periods economy with stock markets Auteurs BONNISSEAU LACHIRI Jean-Marc Oussama du CERMSEM du CERMSEM Jean-Marc.bonnisseau lachiri@univ-paris1,fr 52 Bureaucratic bias and inefficiencies of local public expenditures : a theoretical and empirical inquiry in a democratic context Auteurs LEPRINCE 53 Mathieu du CREREG matthieu.leprince@univ-rennes1,f du IRES lucas@ires.ucl.ac.be Fiscal federalism and bargaining over transfers Auteurs LUCAS 54 Vander Price and quality regulation with multi-dimensional heterogeneity Auteurs de VILLEMEUR 55 Etienne B. du IDEI - GREMAQ etienne.deVillemeur@univ-tlse1.f du CNAM du CREST-LSM laffond@cnam.fr jlaine@ensai.fr du STICERD B.Veronese@lse.ac.uk Majority voting on budgets Political Economy Auteurs LAFFOND LAINE 56 Gilbert Jean Should prime ministers be elected ? Political Economy Auteurs VERONESE 57 Barbara On the effects of regulating price discrimination by a price capped firm Auteurs IOZZI 59 Alberto du University of Roma "To Alberto.Iozzi@UniRoma2.it Industry concentration and the financing of product quality regulations Auteurs CRESPI John M. du Kansas State University 60 A model of energy supply according to consumers'demands Auteurs POSPELOVA 61 Irina du Computing Center of irina@ccas.ru On the efficiency of employment subsidies in limiting the effects of labour market rigidities Auteurs REMY 62 Véronique du LAEP remy@univ-paris1,fr Decomposable poverty measures when households differ in size Auteurs EBERT 63 Udo du University of Oldenburg ebert@uni-oldenburg.de Aggregate games and public economics Auteurs CORNES HARTLEY 65 Richard Roger du University of Nottingham Richard.Cornes@nottingham.ac.u du Keele University r.hartley@keele.ac.uk Coalitions, agreements and efficiency Auteurs XUE 66 Licun du University of Aarhus lxue@econ.dk du SUNY ALBANY m.jerison@albany.edu Taxation and the Drafting of Public Employees Auteurs JERISON 67 Michael Jeux Sans Frontières revisited : a new study of tax comptetition when transportation cost is Tax Competition Tax competition Auteurs KHOSHYARAN 68 Megan Dynamic club formation with coordination Auteurs du Catholic University of ac.be megan.lebacque@econ.kuleuven. ARNOLD WOODERS 69 Tone Myrna du University of Hohenheim tone@uni-hohenheim.de du University of Warwick M.Wooders@warwick.ac.uk Evolution & Voting : how nature makes us public spirited Political Economy Auteurs CONLEY WOODERS 70 John Myrna du University of Illinois du University of Warwick jpconley@uiuc.edu M.Wooders@warwick.ac.uk Boundary behaviour of equilibria for linear exchange economies Auteurs BONNISSEAU FLORIG 71 Jean-Marc Michael du CERMSEM du CERMSEM Jean-Marc.bonnisseau florig@univ-paris1,fr On the inverse problem for semivalues of TU games Game Theory Auteurs DRAGAN 72 Irinel du University of Texas dragan@uta.edu Strong equilibrium outcomes of voting games are the generalized condorcet winners Political Economy Auteurs SERTEL Murat R, du Turkish Academy of 73 Liability rules versus regulation for environmentally risky ventures Auteurs MARTIMORT 74 David du IDEI - GREMAQ Ping du Vanderbit University Crime and Poverty Auteurs WANG 75 Electoral Goals and Centre-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India Political Economy Auteurs ping.wang@vanderbilt.edu DHILLON 77 Amrita du University of Warwick A.Dhillon@warwick.ac.uk du Tilburg University trannoy@paris.u-cergy.fr Internet, Literacy and Earnigs Inequality Auteurs TRANNOY 78 Tax incentives for private life annuities and the social security reform : effects on consumption and on adverse selection Auteurs PECH 79 Alain Suzanne du University of Linz susanne.pech@jku.at Income distribution and the public-private mix in health care provision : the latin american case Auteurs MACEIRA 80 Daniel du University of Buenos daniel_maceira@arnet.com.ar Do elections always motivate incumbents ? Experimentation vs. Career concerns Political Economy Auteurs LE BORGNE LOCKWOOD 81 Eric Ben du University of Warwick du University of Warwick eleborgne@imf.org b,lockwood@warwick.ac.uk Phantom bidding versus shill bidding : incentives to manipulate the auction outcome Auteurs KOSMOPOULOU 83 Georgia du University of Oklahoma georgiak@ou.edu Decentralization of Asset ownership in transition economies Auteurs LE 84 Hong Nhat du CIEM nhatlh@fetp.vnn.vn On-the-job-training effects on working time and wage responses to changes in the social security payroll tax Auteurs ALVAREZ-ALBELO Carmen du Universidad de la Laguna calbelo@ull.es 86 Star-shapedness of Richter-Aumann integral on a measure space with atoms : Theory and economic applications Game Theory Auteurs d'AGATA 87 Antonio du University of Catania adagata@lex.unict.it du University of Delhi rdg@bol.net.in Decentralisation and poverty alleviation in Asia Auteurs GAIHA 88 Raghav Appropriate redistributions and the second welfare theorem when equilibrium is not unique Auteurs BRYANT 90 Tony du Macquarie University tbryant@efs.mq.edu.au A tax design from the principle of the maximum guaranteed happiness Auteurs MULLAT 91 J.E. du Byvej 269 joseph_mullat@datalaudering.co Tax competition and spatial competition : easing cross-border trading under different tax rules Auteurs HAMILTON 92 Jonathan du University of Florida hamilton@ufl.edu Detecting abnormal pricing in international trade : the RUSSIA-USA case Auteurs de BOYRIE 93 Maria E, du Florida International deboyrie@fiu.edu Three principles of competitive nonlinear pricing Auteurs PAGE 94 Franck du University of Alabama fpage@cba.ua.edu In search of the uncovered set Auteurs SENED 95 Itai du Washington University in sened@artsci.wustl.edu Provision point mechanisms and over provision of public goods Auteurs MORELLI 96 Massimo du Ohio State University morelli@ias.edu Sustainable transportation system : a system dynamics approach Auteurs YEVDOKIMOV 97 Yuri V. du University of New yuri@unb.ca Will the public sector be loo large in an economy with club goods ? Public Goods Auteurs FRASER 99 Clive D du University of Leicester cdf2@le.ac.uk du GREQAM Jean.MERCIER-YTHIER@wanadoo.fr Regular distributive social systems Auteurs MERCIER-YTHIER Jean 100 Fifty years after samuelson's "the pure theory of public expenditure" : what are we left with ? Public Goods Auteurs PICKHARDT Michael du Bergische University pic@wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de 101 The role of the WTO in the transfer of policy knowledge on trade and competition Auteurs MORRISSEY NELSON Oliver Douglas R. du University of Nottingham oliver.morrissey@nottingham.ac. du Tulane University dnelson@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu 102 Externality policy reform : a general-equilibrium analysis Auteurs RUSSEL Robert du University of California, rcubed@mail.ucr.edu 103 Tax evasion and the source of income : an experimental study in Albania and the Netherlands Auteurs GERXHANI SCHRAM Klarita Arthur du Tinbergen Institute du CREED klarita@fee.uva.nl 105 Evolution of social behavior : individual and group selection models Auteurs BERGSTROM Theodore C. du University of California, tedb@econ.ucsb.edu 106 Institutional device and welfare in a monetary union : a partisan analysis Auteurs AARON-CUREAU Corinne du LAEP aaron@univ-paris1,fr du Concordia University awpopp@hotmail.com 108 Systemic game theory : westerian approach Auteurs POPP Alexandru 109 A managed service economy with an equilibrium for marketable services Auteurs RUYS Pieter H.M. du University of Maastricht P.H.M.Ruys@kub.nl 110 Population aging and retirement age Auteurs LACOMBA Juan Antonio du University of Granada jlacomba@ugr.es du University of Warwick A.Dhillon@warwick.ac.uk 111 Learning in elections and voter turnout Auteurs DHILLON Amrita DMICHELIS Stefano du University of Warwick stefano@core.ucl.ac.be 112 Exhaustible resources and secondary materials a macroeconomic analysis Auteurs Di VITA 113 Giuseppe du University of Catania gdivita @lex.unict.it Tax Spillovers under separate accounting and formula apportionment Auteurs BO NIELSEN Soren du Copenhagen Business sbn.eco@cbs.dk du University of Michigan reback@umich.edu 114 The existence of strategic voting Political Economy Auteurs REBACK Randall 115 Stat-ups, Venture capitalists and the capital gains tax Auteurs KEUSCHNIGG Christian du University of St Gallen christian.keuschnigg@unisg.ch 116 Debt policy in a competitive two-sector overlapping generations model Auteurs SEN Partha du Delhi School of senp@isid.ac.in 117 Price competition with information disparities in a vertically Auteurs CAVALIERE Alberto du Università degli Studi di cavalier@unipv,it 118 Consumer Activitism and the Regulation of Socially Responsible Goods Auteurs USUREL Catalin du Oxford University catalin.usurel@merton.ox.ac.uk 119 Are spanish governments really averse to inequlity ? A normative analysis using the 1999 reform of the spanish tax-benefit system as a natural experiment Auteurs SPADARO Amedeo du Universitat de les Iles amedeo.spadaro@uib.es 120 Bidding among friends and enemies Auteurs ETTINGER David du CERAS david.ettinger@enpc.fr 122 Optimal unemployment benefits and non-linear income taxation in a matching model with wage bargaining Auteurs LEHMANN VAN DER LINDEN Etienne Bruno du EUREQUA du IRES lehmann@univ-paris1,fr vanderlinden@ires.ucl.ac.be 123 Arbitrage with incomplete markets and asymmetric information Auteurs CORNET de BOISDEFFRE Bernard Lionel du CERMSEM cornet@univ-paris1,fr du University of Cambridge lionel,de,boisdeffre@wanadou.fr 124 Endogenous population and environmental quality Auteurs NGUYEN Van Phu du BETA-THEME nvphu@cournot.u-strasbg.fr 125 Efficicency , equilibrium, and core of an exchange economy with bads and infinitely many Auteurs HARA Chiaki du University of Cambridge ch201@econ.cam.ac.uk 127 Strategic power revisited Auteurs WIDGREN Mika du Turku School of mika.widgren@tukkk.fi 128 Lobbying and rent-seeking for public goods in a fiscally centralized system Political Economy Auteurs CHEIKBOSSIAN Guillaume du GREMAQ 1.fr guillaume.cheikbossian@univ-tlse 129 An ascending vickrey auction for heterogeneous objects Auteurs SCHUMMER James du Kellogg School of schummer@nwu.edu 130 Voluntary matching grands Auteurs HINDRIKS Jean du CORE hindriks@pops1.core.ucl.ac.be 131 Income maintenance programs and multidimensional screening Auteurs SHAPIRO Joel du Universitat Pompeu joel.shapiro@econ.upf.es du Universität Passau beckmann@public-economics.co du University of Durham reinhorn@hotmail.com 132 Two cheers for the EITC Auteurs BECKMANN Klaus 133 On optimal redistributive capital taxation Auteurs REINHORN Leslie 134 Efficiency management of product durability and recyclability under utilitarian and chichilnisky preferences Auteurs RUNKEL Marco du University of Munich de marco.runkel@lrz.uni-muenchen. 135 Does centralization affect the number and size of lobbies ? Political Economy Auteurs REDOANO Michaela du University of Warwick ecrfu@dredd.csv.warwick.ac.uk 136 Matching, search and intermediation with two-sided heterogeneity Matching Auteurs BURANI Nadia du Universitad Carlos III de nburani@eco.uc3m.es 137 On the effects of dynamic horizontal mergers Auteurs BENCHEKROUN Hassan du University of Florida benchekr@fau.edu 138 Bargaining power in stationaly parallelogram games Game Theory Auteurs KIBRIS TAUB Ozgür Bart du University of Illinois du University of Illinois ozgur@sabanciuniv.edu 139 Non-Welfarist Approaches to Inequality Measurement Auteurs CHATEAUNEUF MOYES Alain Patrick du CERMSEM chateaun@univ-paris1,fr du Université Montesquieu - moyes@montesquieu.u-bordeaux 141 Evolutionary rent seeking Auteurs POSSAJENNIKOV Alex du Universität Mannheim possajen@sfb504.uni-mannheim. 142 Optimal taxation to form altruistic preferences in an economy with public goods Auteurs PEREZ-MARTI Felipe du I.E.S.A. felipe.perez@iesa.edu.ve du TEAM lhoir@univ-paris1.fr 143 Human capital and competition effect Matching Auteurs L'HOIR Mathieu 144 Stricter enforcement may increase tax evasion Auteurs BORCK Rainald du kpmg Rborck@kpmg.com 145 On the optimal timing of implicit social security taxes over the life cycle Auteurs WERDING Martin du CESifo werding@ifo.de 146 Coordination of capital taxation among asymmetric countries Tax Competition Auteurs van YPERSELE Tanguy du CORE-UCL tanguy@fundp.ac.be 147 A dynamic model of endogenous interest group sizes and policymaking Auteurs SADIRAJ Vjollca du CREED vjollca@fee.uva.nl 148 Contests over public goods : evolutionary stability and the free-rider problem Auteurs LEININGER Wolfgang du University of Dortmund mik-wole@wiso.uni-dortmund.de 149 Quantifying the impact of immigration on the spanish welfare state Auteurs COLLADO Dolores du Universidad de Alicante VALERA BLANES Quadalupe du Universidad Pablo de collado@merlin.fae.ua.es gvalbla@dee.upo.es 150 Independant authorities : the reasons for their existence within a political economy context Auteurs RIZZO Ilde du Università di Catania rizzor@mbox.unict.it 151 Taxation policy in a duopoly vertically differentiated in environnmental quality Auteurs LOMBARDINI-RIIPINE Chiara du FPPE ki.fi chiara.lombardini-riipinen@helsin 152 Network formation and coordination : bargaining the division of link costs Auteurs MELENDEZ-JIMENEZ Miguel A. du Universidad de Alicante melendez@merlin.fae.ua.es 153 Stategic choice of financing systems in regulated and interconnected industries Auteurs POUYET Jérôme du CERAS pouyet@enpc.fr 156 Why joining a common market ? The politicial economy of international factor mobility in a multi-country setting Auteurs FACCHINI Giovanni du University of Illinois facchini@uiuc.edu 157 Partial privatization and firm performance : Evidence from India Auteurs GUPTA Nandini du University of Michigan nandinig@umich.edu 159 Tax competition in a European-Style fiscal union with decentralized leadership Tax Competition Auteurs KOTHENBURGER Marko du University of Munich n.de mkoethen@ces.vwl.uni-muenche 160 Achievement vs. Aptitude : the incentive-screening tradeoff in Colle admissions Auteurs HARBAUGH Rick du Claremont McKenna a.edu rick.harbaugh@claremontmckenn 162 Technological path dependence of institutions : the case of property rights as a unique solution in supergames with payoffs shocks Game Theory Auteurs NIEVA Ricardo du University of Minnesota rnieva@binghamton.edu 163 Optimality of a welfare system with heterogeneous preferences and endogenous stigma Auteurs JACQUET Laurence du IRES jacquet@ires.ucl.ac.be 164 Monitoring and privacy : when private information is a public good Publics Goods Auteurs DODDS Stefan du Queen's University doddss@qed.econ.queensu.ca 165 Poverty, inequality and private sector participation in developing infrastructure Auteurs KHITARISHVILI Tamar du University of Minnesota khit0001@tc.umn.edu 166 Determinants of public spending in developing countries. Evidence from countries of the M.E.N.A. region Auteurs BASSI Sonia du LAEP bassi@univ-paris1.fr 167 Short-term vs. Long term delegation contracts in repeated trust games Game Theory Auteurs MERZONI Guido du ISEIS merzoni@mi.unicatt.it 168 The organisation of organ transplants : a spatial approach Auteurs ZANOLA Roberto du University of Easter zanola@al.unipmn.it 169 Does more health care lead to more social security ? Auteurs GALASSO Vincenzo du Università Bocconi vincenzo.galasso@uni-bocconi.it 170 On the optimality of joint taxation with household production Auteurs JACOBSEN KLEVEN Henrik du University of Heinrik.Kleven@econ.ku.dk 172 Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment Auteurs EGGERT Wolfgang du University of Wolfgang.Eggert@uni-konstanz.d 173 Auction design without commitment Auteurs VARTIAINEN Hannu du Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation hannu.vartiainen@yjs.fi Nauro F. du University of Newcastle n.f. campos@ncl.ac.uk 174 The Looting Auteurs CAMPOS 175 Election on retirement age Auteurs LACOMBA Juan Antonio du University of Granada jlacomba@ugr.es 176 Efficiency in the degree of compromise : a new axiom for social choice Auteurs OZKAL-SANVER Ipek du Istanbul Bilgi University isanver@bilgi.edu.tr 177 Electoral Goals and Centre-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India Auteurs BUENROSTRO Lucia du University of Warwick L.Buenrostro@warwick.ac.uk 178 Yardstick competition and political agency problems Auteurs HINDRIKS Jean du CORE hindriks@pops1.core.ucl.ac.be 179 Financial wealth of households and activities of the european financial intermediairies Auteurs BOUTILLIER Michel du MODEM mic.bou@wanadoo.fr 180 Social insurance and redistribution with moral hazard and adverse selection Auteurs MARCHAND Maurice du University of Warwick mmarchand@core.ucl.ac.be 181 The one object optimal auction and the desirability of exclusion Auteurs KLINGER MONTEIRO Paulo du EPGE/FGV PKLM@fgv.br du Mendoza College of spapai@nd.edu du Mc Master University cuffk@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca 182 Unique cores in general matching Matching Auteurs PAPAI Szilvia 183 Capital tax competition and strategic firms Auteurs CUFF Katherine 184 An analysis of the effects of technology licensing on trade policy Auteurs SAHA Souresh du National University of ecsss@nus.edu.sg du University of Karsruhe hme@vwl3.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de 185 A dynamic resource management problem Auteurs MEINHARDT Holger 186 Gradualism in tax treaties with irreversible foreign direct investment Auteurs DAVIES Ron du University of Oregon rdavies@oregon.uoregon.edu 187 Globalization and tax policy Auteurs NEUMANN Rebecca du University of Wisconsin - rneumann@csd.uwm.edu 188 Hidden information problems in the design off amily allowances Auteurs LUPORINI Annalisa du Università di Trieste annalisa.luporini@econ.trieste.it 190 Exclusion and cooperation in social network experiments Auteurs RIEDL Arno du CREED riedl@fee.uva.nl 191 Is targeted tax competition less harmful than its remedies ? Auteurs JANEBA Eckhard du University of Colorado Eckhard.Janeba@Colorado.EDU 192 Tax enforcement for heterogeneous firms Auteurs VASIN VASINA Alexander Polina du Moscow State University vasin@cs,msu,su du Moscow State University 193 Could do better : the effectiveness of incentives for schools Auteurs DE FRAJA Gianni du York University gd4@york.ac.uk du Boiaziçi University oerdem@bilgi.edu.tr 195 Minimal monotonic extensions of scoring rules Auteurs ERDEM Orhan 198 Forming stable coalitions : the process matters Auteurs KILGOUR Marc du Wilfrid Laurier mkilgour@wlu.ca 199 Small states, large unitary states, and federations Auteurs WREDE Matthias du Aachen University of rg.de matthias.wrede@sowi.uni-bambe 200 The majority rule is the maximally decisive member of the family of anonymous, neutral, pareto optimal and weakly monotonic aggregation rules Auteurs ASAN Göksel du Istanbul Bilgi University gasan@bilgi.edu.tr 201 Comparison of urban equilibria : the conflict between efficiency and equity in the choice of the central city's majority Auteurs DE BARTOLOME Charles A.M. du University of Colorado debartol@spot.colorado.edu 202 Local provision of education with opting-out the role of housing markets Auteurs MARTINEZ MORA Francisco du University of Granada fmmora@ugr.es 203 Existence and characterization of Markovian equilibrium in infinite horizon models with many agents and public policy Auteurs DATTA REFFETT Manjira Kevin du Arizona State University du Arizona State University kevin.reffett@asu.edu 204 Efficiency of policy choice and political auction Auteurs UENG Shyh-Fang du Academia Sinica 205 Equalization and tax competition : theory and evidence us21@gate.sinica.edu.tw Auteurs RIZZO Leonzio du STICERD l.rizzo@lse.ac.uk 206 Informational neighborhood effects and the organization of the city Auteurs MOIZEAU Fabien du EUREQUA fmoizeau@univ-paris1,fr 207 Search and taxation in a model of underground economic Auteurs BALESTRINO Alessandro du University of Pisa and 208 Can private giving promote economic segregation Auteurs SLIVINSKI Al du University of Western 209 Formation of buyer-seller trade networks in a quality-differentiated product market Auteurs WANG WATTS Ping Alison du Vanderbit University du Southern Illinois ping.wang@vanderbilt.edu wattsa@siu.edu 210 Monk business : an example of the dynamics of organizations Auteurs CORCHON Luis C. du Universitad Carlos III de lcorchon@eco.uc3m.es 211 Strongly stable networks Auteurs van den NOUWELAND Anne du University of Oregon annev@oregon.uoregon.edu du Universität Bonn Axel.Gautier@wiwi.uni-bonn.de 212 Regulation under financial constraints Auteurs GAUTIER Axel 214 "Regional constitution" and environmental risks Auteurs CALLENS Stéphane du Université de Brest Callens@univ-brest.fr 215 The inefficiency of firm-augmenting public input vs. The inapplicability of provision rules Auteurs COLOMBIER Carsten du Federal Department of carstenco@web.de 216 Privately contributing to public goods over time - an experimental study Auteurs LEVATI Maria Vittoria du Max-Planck Institute levati@mpiew-jena.mpg.de 217 In search for yardstick competition : property tax rates and electoral behavior in italian cities Public Goods Floriana Cerniglia, Federico Revelli Auteurs BORDIGNON Massimo du CESifo mbordig@mi.unicatt.it 218 The optimal supply of public goods and distortionary taxes Public Goods Auteurs JONES Chris du The Australian National chrismjones@ozemail.com.au 219 Rivalry, Exclusion and Coalitions Auteurs SANCHEZ-PAGES Santiago du Universitat Autonoma de ssanchez@idea.uab.es Jonathan du University of Warwick 220 Net public goods Auteurs CAVE cave@rand.org 221 Substitulability of capital, investment costs, and foreign aid Auteurs TURNOVSKY Stephen J. du University of Washington sturn@u.washington.edu 222 Privatization in a regulated market, open to foreign competition Auteurs SEPAHVAND Mehrdad du University of Nottingham lexms2@nottingham.ac.uk 223 On the influence of extreme parties in electoral competion with policy-motivated candidates Auteurs CASAMATTA 224 Georges du GREMAQ georges.casamatta@univ-tlse1.fr Auditing and competitive bidding in the public sector Auteurs FEARON Gervan du York University 225 A positive theory of the convergence to low inflation rates Auteurs d'ARTIGUES VIGNOLO Agnès Thierry du CREDEN du LAMETA ada@sceco.univ-montp1.fr vignolo@lameta.univ-montp1.fr du Purdue University Gcamera@mgmt.purdue.edu du GREMAQ du CORE-UCL gwenael.piaser@online.fr 226 Productive education or a marketable degree ? Auteurs CAMERA Gabriele 227 Optimal taxation and imperfect labor market Auteurs HARITON PIASER Cyril Gwenaël 228 Voluntary contribution to a public good : strategic learning of boundedly rational agents Auteurs CLEMENS Christiane du University of Hannover clemens@vwl.uni-hannover.de 229 Anarchy, State, Paretopia : demand for the Nozickian minimal state Auteurs RUBINCIK-PESSACH Anna du University of Colorado Anna.Rubincik@colorado.edu 230 A principal-agent building block for the study of decentralization and integration Auteurs WEINSCHELBAUM Federico 231 Optimal audit policy and heterogenous agents du CEDI fweinsch@udesa.edu.ar Auteurs RATTO VERGE Marisa Thibaud du University of Bristol du University of Bristol M.L.Ratto@bristol.ac.uk 232 Substitutes? Complements and equilibrium in two-sided market models Matching Auteurs KOSHEVOY Gleb du Universitaet zu Koeln Gleb.koshevoy@uni-koeln.de 234 Why public plans have taken on more risk than private plans ? Or The mischief of the exclusive benefit rule Auteurs ARONSON DEARDEN Richard James A. du Lehig University du Lehig University jad8@lehigh.edu 236 Legislative bargaining under weighted voting Auteurs SNYDER James M du Massachusetts Institute of millett@MIT.EDU 237 Optimization of investment decision processes Auteurs PICKL Stefan du Z.A.I.K. pickl@zpr.uni-koeln.de 238 Threshold incomes public goods and pareto improving free riding conditions Public Goods Auteurs RYAN M.J. du hullM.J.Ryan@hull.ac.uk 239 The avoidable excess burden of broad-based U.S. taxes Auteurs TIDEMAN Nicolaus du Virginia Tech 240 Private International Debt with Risk of Repudiation ntideman@vt.edu Auteurs JESKE Karsten du Federal Reserve Bank of karsten.jeske@atl.frb.org 241 Campaign contribution with swing voters Auteurs DIX Manfred du Tulane University mdix@tulane.edu 243 Intra-national labour market adjustment in the CEE : some stylised facts Auteurs HUBER Peter du Austrian Institute for huber@wifo.ac.at 244 Optimum Currency area theory and correlation of shocks between the accession-candidate countries and the EMU Auteurs HORVATH Julius du Central European 245 On the way of EMU enlargement towards CEECs : what is the appropriate exchange rate regime ? Auteurs MAUREL Mathilde du ROSES maurelm@univ-paris1.fr 246 Does EU enlarged towards Eastern countries constitute and OCA (Optimal Currency Area) ? Auteurs MAUREL Mathilde du ROSES maurelm@univ-paris1.fr 247 EU enlargement and industrial relocation within the CEECs Auteurs CROZET KOENIG-SOUBEYRAN Mathieu Pamina du TEAM du CREST crozet@univ-paris1.fr pks@ensae.fr 248 How different is Eastern Europe ? Structure adn determinants of location choices by French firms in Eastern and Western Europe Auteurs DISDIER MAYER Anne-Célia Thierry du TEAM du TEAM adisdier@univ-paris1,fr tmayer@univ-paris1,fr 250 The puzzle of rising regional disparities and falling migration rates during transition Auteurs HUBER Peter du Austrian Institute for huber@wifo.ac.at 251 Optimal taxation in a Growth model <ith public capital stock and adjustment costs Auteurs CHEN Ben-Lon du Academia Sinica bchen@ieas.econ.sinica.edu.yw 252 Management competition as an incentive mechanism in supply relations Auteurs SUZUKI Yukata du Stanford University yusuzuki@stanford.edu du IRES vannetelbosch@ires.ucl.ac.be 254 Rationalizability for social environments Game Theory Auteurs VANNETELBOSCH Vincent 255 Ensuring quality provision in deregulated industries Auteurs WAUTHY X.Y. du CEREC - CORE xwauthy@fusl.ac.be 256 Corruption and the size of the public sector with renegotiation-proof delegation of public output Auteurs DHAMI Sanjit du University of Newcastle Sanjit.Dhami@ncl.ac.uk 257 Political uncertainty and policy innovation Auteurs SCHWAGER Robert du Universität Mannheim schwager@zew.de 259 Welfare transfers and Intra-Household Trickle-Down : a model with evidence from the US Food Stamp Program Auteurs BREUNIG Robert du The Australian National Robert.Breunig@anu.edu.au 260 The distributional impact of subsidies to higher education - empirical evidence from Germany Auteurs BARBARO Salvatore du University of Goettingen sbarbar@uni-goettingen.de 261 Does altruism affect the optimal fiscal policy ? Auteurs SANCHEZ-LOSADA Fernando du CREB fersan@eco.ub.es du STICERD l.rizzo@lse.ac.uk 262 The impact of grants on electoral outcome Auteurs RIZZO Leonzio 266 Quality of knowledge technology, returns to production technology and economic development Auteurs LE VAN Cuong du CERMSEM levan@univ-paris1,fr 267 Existence of a competitive equilibrium in one sector growth model with heterogeneous agents and irreversible investment Auteurs LE VAN VAILAKIS Cuong Yiannis du CERMSEM du IRES levan@univ-paris1,fr vailakis@ires.ucl.ac.be 268 Analyzing the take-up of means-tested benefits in France Auteurs TERRACOL Antoine du TEAM Terracol@univ-paris1,fr 269 An application of "post-welfarist" theories of justice : an empirical comparison between theoretical rights to compensaion and actual policy measures against poverty Auteurs SOFER Catherine du TEAM catherine.sofer@univ-paris1.fr du CESifo fenge@ifo.de 270 Why cities should not be subsidized Auteurs FENGE Robert 272 Reciprocation and reinforcement learning model in the investment game Auteurs MEIDINGER Claude du TEAM Claude.Meidinger@univ-paris1,fr 273 Optimal selling mechanisms with costly information acquisition Auteurs CREMER Jacques du IDEI - GREMAQ jacques@cremeronline.com Heather du St Louis University bednarhl@slu.edu 275 Fat and Happy Auteurs BEDNAREK 276 Polish households between transition and informal markets Auteurs GARDES François du CREST-LSM gardes@ensai.fr du University of St Gallen Jean-Robert.Tyran@unisg.ch 278 Why people obey the law Auteurs TYRAN Jean-Robert 279 Fair procedures. Evidence from games involving lotteries Auteurs BRANDTS Jordi du CSIC brandts@cc.uab.es 281 Competion in taxes and performance requirements for foreign direct investment Auteurs DAVIES ELLIS Ron Christopher du University of Oregon du University of Oregon rdavies@oregon.uoregon.edu 282 Equilibrium comparisons and welfare theorems when goods are normal Auteurs QUAH John K-H du St Hugh's College john.quah@economics.ox.ac.uk 285 Can a cleaner environment be good for business Auteurs FUNG K.C. du University of California, kcfunf@cats.ucsc.edu 287 Endogenously Excludable Goods Auteurs KOLMAR Martin du University of Konstanz Martin.kolmar@uni-konstanz.de du CESifo meier@ifo.de 288 Workfare in an efficiency wage model Auteurs MEIER Volker 289 Price Dynamics and Shake-Outs in Electronic Markets Auteurs PEREIRA Pedro du Universitad Carlos III de ppereira@eco.uc3m.es 290 Unbundling the local loop time dependent rental path Auteurs DOGAN Paul du GREMAQ pinar.dogan@univ-tlse.fr 291 National Emergency, security Spending, and Growth Auteurs IHORI Toshihiro du University of Tokyo 292 Incomplete interregional risk-sharing with complete makets Auteurs ihori@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp CONDE-RUIZ J. Ignacio du Università Bocconi iconderuiz@pop.uni-bocconi.it du Brown University ipalacios@brown.edu 293 Rejecting small gambles under expected utility Auteurs PALACIOS-HUERTA Ignacio 296 Influence costs in the provision of local public goods Auteurs BESHAROV Gregory du Duke University besharov@econ.duke.edu du GREMAQ georges.casamatta@univ-tlse1.fr 297 Citizen candidacy with asymmetric information Auteurs CASAMATTA Georges 298 Commodity taxation with non-linear pricing oligopoly Auteurs BOLDRON François du CORE-UCL boldron@core.ucl.ac.be du EPGE/FGV flavio.menezes@fgv.br 299 Corruption and auctions Auteurs MENEZES Flavio M. 300 Optimal mechanisms for siting noxious facilities Auteurs LESCOP Denis du CRESE 301 Tax competition revisited Auteurs BEN ZISSIMOS du University of Warwick 302 PAPER2 NOT YET RECEIVED Auteurs BEN CARTWRIGHT 303 paper not yet received du University of Warwick dnlescop@aol.com Auteurs GAUMONT Damien du University of California, 304 Training, Health cares and Economic Growth : Liem Hoang-Ngoc (MATISSE, U. Paris1), Pascal Gourdel(CERMSEM, U. Paris 1),Cuong Le Van (CERMSEM, U. Paris 1), Tédié Mazamba (U. Paris 2). 305 Demography, Retirement and Social Security Auteurs PROFETA Paola du Università Bocconi pprofeta@pop.uni-bocconi.it 306 Pollution abatement investment when environmental regulation is uncertain Auteurs FARZIN Y.H. du University of California, farzin@primal.ucdavis.edu 307 Existence of Social Ordering Functions which Embody Procedural Values and Consequential Auteurs YOSHIHARA Naoki du Hitotsubashi University yosihara@ier.hit-u.ac.jp 308 Intergenerational conflicts and the minimum wage WIGNIOLLES Bertrand DECREUSE Bruno EUREQua EUREQua wignioll@univ-paris1.fr decreuse@univ-paris1.fr 309 Occupational Choice, Incentives and Wealth Distribution with an Endogenous Rate of Interest CHAKRABORTY Archishman CITANNA Alessandro Baruch College HEC Paris-Jouy-en-Josas acf3320@baruch.cuny.edu citanna@hec.fr 310 Price bid and capacity choice in Electricity markets CRETI Anna IDEI-CEA creti@aurore.cict.fr CRAMPES Claude GREMAQ-IDEI crampes@cict.fr 311 Energy and Environnmental policy : strategic issues for the tax system CRETI Anna VILLENEUVE Bertrand CEA-IDEI-LEERNA 312 How to hire civil servants ? a Trade-off between wages and employment BACACHE Maya ENS-Ulm-EUREQuq maya.bacache@ens.fr 313 The core in the presence of externalities KOCZY Laszlo A. laszlo.koczy@econ.kuleuven.ac.be Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 314 Market structure, scale economies and industry performance AMIR Rabah University of Manchester rabah.amir@man.ac.uk 315 Overlapping generations with incomplete market: The numeraire case Seghir Abdelkrim CERMSEM Paris 1 seghir@univ-paris1.fr 316 Intergenerational conflicts and the minimum wage WIGNIOLLES Bertrand DECREUSE Bruno EUREQua EUREQua wignioll@univ-paris1.fr decreuse@univ-paris1.fr 317 Occupational Choice, Incentives and Wealth Distribution with an Endogenous Rate of Interest CHAKRABORTY Archishman CITANNA Alessandro Baruch College HEC Paris-Jouy-en-Josas acf3320@baruch.cuny.edu citanna@hec.fr 318 Price bid and capacity choice in Electricity markets CRETI Anna IDEI-CEA creti@aurore.cict.fr CRAMPES Claude GREMAQ-IDEI crampes@cict.fr 319 Energy and Environnmental policy : strategic issues for the tax system CRETI Anna VILLENEUVE Bertrand CEA-IDEI-LEERNA 320 How to hire civil servants ? a Trade-off between wages and employment BACACHE Maya ENS-Ulm-EUREQuq maya.bacache@ens.fr 321 The core in the presence of externalities KOCZY Laszlo A. laszlo.koczy@econ.kuleuven.ac.be Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 322 Intergenerational conflicts and the minimum wage WIGNIOLLES Bertrand DECREUSE Bruno EUREQua EUREQua wignioll@univ-paris1.fr decreuse@univ-paris1.fr 323 Occupational Choice, Incentives and Wealth Distribution with an Endogenous Rate of Interest CHAKRABORTY Archishman CITANNA Alessandro Baruch College HEC Paris-Jouy-en-Josas acf3320@baruch.cuny.edu citanna@hec.fr 324 Price bid and capacity choice in Electricity markets CRETI Anna IDEI-CEA creti@aurore.cict.fr CRAMPES Claude GREMAQ-IDEI crampes@cict.fr 325 Energy and Environnmental policy : strategic issues for the tax system CRETI Anna VILLENEUVE Bertrand CEA-IDEI-LEERNA 326 How to hire civil servants ? a Trade-off between wages and employment BACACHE Maya ENS-Ulm-EUREQuq maya.bacache@ens.fr 327 The core in the presence of externalities KOCZY Laszlo A. laszlo.koczy@econ.kuleuven.ac.be Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 328 Market Structure, scale economies and industry performance AMIR Rabah University of Manchester rabah.amir@man.ac.uk 329 Overlapping generations with incomplete market: The numeraire case Seghir Abdelkrim CERMSEM Paris 1 seghir@univ-paris1.fr 330 Storable Votes; Initial Experimental Results CASSEL Alessandra, PALFREY Tom, GELMAN Andrew, Columbia University Calfornia Institute of Techology Dept of Statistics, Columbia) ac186@columbia.edu 331 The wealth effect in the new growth regime PLIHON Dominique TALEB Nacéra Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord (CEPN) Université Paris Nord 332 Firm investment and monetary policy transmission in the Euro Area Jean-Bernard Chatelain (Banque de France), Andrea Generale (Bank of Italy) Ignacio Hernando (Bank of Spain), Ulf von Kalckreuth (Bank of Germany) Philip Vermuelen (European Central Bank) 333 Job market with commitment HAERINGER Guillaume WOODERS Myrna Warwick University Warwick University