Announcements:
APET is pleased to announce that the latest issue of JPET on Managing Climate, with guest editors Roger Guesnerie and Nicholas Stern, is available on open access at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpet.2012.14.issue-2/issuetoc We encourage everyone interested to take advantage of the issues' availability
APET Workshop on Public-Private Partnerships June 25th and 26th, 2012
The Association for Public Economic Theory and The School of Economics at the University of Queensland are proud to sponsor a special APET workshop on public-private partnerships. Confirmed keynote speakers include Eduardo Engle (Yale University) and David Martimort (Paris School of Economics). Click here for more information.
APET 13th annual conference in Taipei, Taiwan, June 12-14, 2012.
To submit a paper online, click here.
The deadline for submissions to PET12 Taipei has been extended to Friday March 16,2012. This will be the only extension, so if you wish to submit a paper we encourage your to do so by then.

Recent prior events:
Exeter Workshop in honor of Cuong Le Van
Professor Cuong Le Van, organizer of PET 02 Paris and PET 06 Hanoi, Vice-President of APET and a strong supporter of APET, retired from CNRS in September 2011. On this occasion APET collaborated with the University of Exeter in organizing a conference to celebrate Cuong Le Van’s research achievements. The conference took place on September 9, 10 and 11, 2011 at the University of Exeter. Keynote speakers: Professor Roger Guesnerie and Professor Jean-Michel Grandmont.
The organizing committee: Professor Gareth Myles, Professor. Myrna Wooders, Dr. Sushama Murty and Dr. Yiannis Vailakis.
Sponsors: the Association of Public Economic Theory (APET), the ESRC and the University of Exeter.
Workshop on The Political Economy of Development
The Association for Public Economic Theory and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok are proud to have sponsored a special APET workshop on the political economy of development. The workshop was held on June 23 and 24, 2011, at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
A selection of the papers presented will be included in a special issue of the Journal or Public Economic Theory to be edited by Debraj Ray and Rajiv Sethi.
For more information , click here: http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/PED11/
PET 11 was held at Indiana University June 2nd - 4th, 2011
As with previous PET conferences, papers in all aspects of public economics and related areas were presented. Please visit the following link for more information. http://www.indiana.edu/~pet11
The organizing committee was chaired by Gerhard Glomm, Frank Page (Indiana University), and John Conley and Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University).
APET Purpose
The Association for Public Economic Theory (APET) is dedicated to the promotion of theoretical research in all areas of public finance and to the facilitation of communication amongst economists working in these areas.
Membership
Membership is open to any individual with an interest in theoretical public economics and is bundled with a subscription to the Journal of Public Economic Theory. Information about subscribing may be found at the website of Blackwell Publishers.
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