5th Swiss Workshop on Local Public Finance and Regional Economics
Institute of Economics
Date: 13.10.2023 / 08:50 - 17:00
Room 354 (main building), Università della Svizzera italiana, Campus Ovest Lugano
The workshop brings together leading scholars and young researchers working in the fields of local public finance, political economy, regional and urban economics with a special interest in Switzerland. The conference aims to stimulate the exchange of ideas among researchers and to contribute to the understanding of interactions between public policies and the geography of economic activity.
Registration is compulsory (please contact [email protected]).
Program
Friday, October 13
Morning Session 1 – Chair: Raphaël Parchet (USI, Lugano)
08.50 Welcome Address
09.00 Isabel Micó-Millán (University Carlos III & Bank of Spain)
The Effects of Inheritance and Gift Taxation on Upward Wealth Mobility at the Bottom: Lessons from Spain
09.30 Enrico Rubolino (University of Lausanne)
The Carnegie Elasticity: Behavioral Responses to Sudden Wealth
10.00 Parallel Poster Session
Morning Session 2 – Chair: Mario Jametti
11.00 Thierry Madiès (University of Fribourg)
Disentangling the Effects of Global and Local Heterogeneity on Cooperation in Multi-level Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
11.30 Remo Gurtner (KOF)
Local Fiscal Policy Announcements and Firm Expectations: Evidence from Switzerland
12.00 Lunch & Coffee
Afternoon Session 1 – Chair: Maximilian von Ehrlich (University of Bern)
13.30 Lukas Mair (IWP, Universität Luzern)
Reform into (Un-)Sustainability? Empirical Evidence on Fiscal Equalization Transfers and Fiscal Sustainability of Swiss Cantons
14.00 Philipp Meier (University of Bayreuth)
Multinational Firms and the Urban-Rural Profitability Gap
14.30 Luisa Doerr (ifo Institute)
The Effects of Corporate Taxes on Business Entry and Exit
15.00 Coffee break
Afternoon Session 2 – Chair: Fabrizio Mazzonna (USI, Lugano)
15.30 Tobias Lehmann (USI, Lugano)
Increased Workplace Sorting or Reduced Bargaining Power? Measuring Changes in the Immigrant-Native Wage Gap Following Mass Migration
16.00 David Burgherr (University of Zurich)
Behavioral Responses to a Pension Savings Mandate: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Swiss Tax Data
16.30 Nate Zahnd (ESTV & University of St. Gallen)
Distributional and Savings Effects of Tax Deductibility of Pension Contributions to Pillar 3a Savings Accounts
