PET EVENTS

Announcements:

PET 10 will be held at Istanbul, June 25th -275th, 2010. As previous PET conferences, papers in all aspects of public economics and related areas will be presented. Please visit the following link for more information. http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/PET10/

The organizing committee will be chaired by Unal Zenginobuz, University of the Bosphorus (Bogazici University).

Call for papers: Managing Climate Change

A conference on the subject of “Managing Climate Change” will take place at Collège de France, Paris, on June 7, 8, 2010. The conference is being organized by Nicholas Stern, LSE, visiting Collège de France) and Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France and Paris School of Economics).

The first day of the conference will be devoted to “The economics of the long run”. The second day will be devoted to “Fostering innovation and change”. Risk, uncertainty and international collaboration will be major issues throughout.

Papers on the subject of the first day “The economics of the long run” are solicited. Selected papers will be presented at one of the sessions and invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Public Economic Theory on this topic, Roger Guesnerie and Nicholas Stern will be guest editors for the special issue.

Submissions to the conference, accompanied by a full paper or an extended abstract, should be made before January 31st, 2010 to :

Jean Philippe Nicolai, (jean-philippe.nicolai@college-de-france.fr)
Collège de France,
3, rue d’Ulm
75005, Paris,
France.

Submissions the special issue should be made using the submission link at www.jpet.net

Recent prior events:

APET Workshop on Public Economics: Behavioral and Experimental Approaches was held June 22-24 in Lyon. Keynote speakers were John List (University of Chicago) and Charles Plott (California Institute of Technology). The organizing committee was chaired by Jean Luis Rulliere and Marie Claire Villavel, University of Lyon . Both contributed and invited papers will be presented. Further information will be posted as it becomes available. Click here to see some pictures of Lyon.

For more information, please go to:
http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/PETLyon09

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.

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