The tenth edition of the Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet will take place in Marseille on June 20-21-22, 2011.
Launched in 2002, this yearly conference aims at encouraging production and diffusion of high quality research in public economics, with a special emphasis toward results that clearly contribute to shed light on various aspects of "real world " public decision making. In this sense, this conference is in the spirit of the project of developing the Institut d'Economie Publique (IDEP) to which Louis-André Gérard -Varet devoted the last years of his life.
The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics:
For its 10th edition, the conference will hold a special memorial day devoted to Louis-André Gérard-Varet. The program will as usual consist in both contributed papers and keynote lectures.
Two of the keynote lectures will be given this year by:
- Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate,
- Emmanuel Saez, University of Berkeley.
Launched in 2002, this yearly conference aims at encouraging production and diffusion of high quality research in public economics, with a special emphasis toward results that clearly contribute to shed light on various aspects of "real world " public decision making. In this sense, this conference is in the spirit of the project of developing the Institut d'Economie Publique (IDEP) to which Louis-André Gérard -Varet devoted the last years of his life.
The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics:
- Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.)
- Local Public Economics and Geographical Economics
- Fiscal Federalism
- Provision of public goods
- Externalities
- Political Economy
- Auctions and public markets
- Regulation of firms
- Law and economics
- Environment
- Health Economics
- Education
- Normative foundation of public intervention and Social Choice
- Economic Inequalities
- Macroeconomic policy and growth
For its 10th edition, the conference will hold a special memorial day devoted to Louis-André Gérard-Varet. The program will as usual consist in both contributed papers and keynote lectures.
Two of the keynote lectures will be given this year by:
- Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate,
- Emmanuel Saez, University of Berkeley.