Announcements:

PET 13 Announcement

The Association for Public Economic Theory (APET) is pleased to announce that it will hold its thirteenth international meeting at Católica Lisbon, Portugal from July 5 through July 7, 2013. As with previous PET conferences, papers in all aspects of public economics and related areas will be presented.

You can visit the conference website for updates at:

www.PET13.apet.org

A welcome reception will be held on the evening of July 4th. Social events will also include a Gala Dinner and a Reception in downtown Lisbon. You will also be able to enroll separately in a tour of the city and surrounding area.

We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon!

SPECIAL ISSUE OF JPET ON PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

There will be a special issue of JPET, guest-edited by David Martimort and Flavio Menezes, on Public –Private Partnerships. The special issue will consist primarily of invited papers but contributed papers are also welcome. Your contribution can be submitted at www.jpet.net/ .All papers will go through the standard review process. If you would like to contribute a paper to the special issue and the guest editors find that the paper is not a good fit for the special issue, your paper could then be considered as a regular submission to JPET. The deadline for submission of papers to the special issue is August 31, 2012.

The special issue arises from an APET workshop hosted by the University of Queensland; see http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/PETQL12/ for information about the workshop.
Thank you for being part of the APET community.

Call for papers
JPET workshop on
Governance and Political Economy
December 17-18, 2012
Mysore, Karnataka
(known as Mysuru on Google Earth)

MyRA School of Business will host a workshop titled, “Governance and Political Economy” in Mysore on December 17th and 18th. The Workshop is sponsored by the Department of Economics at University of Warwick and the Association for Public Economic Theory, and is organized by Professor Amrita Dhillon, University of Warwick and MyRA School of Business. The inter-disciplinary workshop will bring economists, political scientists, and policymakers from around the world together to address some of the most intriguing and pressing questions on governance including:

How can laws be changed in the best way to discourage bribes? Do higher wages lead to less corruption, or does status make more of a difference? What is the link between the natural resource curse and bad governance? How can fragile states, unable to enforce taxation, implement public policy in a cost-effective way? What are the dynamic incentives facing policymakers today?

By bringing together scholars of various disciplines from the world’s leading institutions, such issues of political governance can be examined from various angles and diverse perspectives.

Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkeley
Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University
Debraj Ray, New York University
Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics
Clare Leaver, University of Oxford
Ajit Mishra, Bath University
Gareth Myles, University of Exeter
Dr. Marco Pani, IMF
Adam Zeigfeld, University of Chicago
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University

The Journal of Public Economic Theory has sponsored a number of highly successful international workshops in the past. The Mysore workshop on “Governance and Political Economy” will contribute to a special issue of the Journal, which will be edited by Professor Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, New Delhi and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA.

The deadline for paper submission is 1 October 2012 and decisions will be made by 30 October 2012. Papers can be submitted at http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/PETMysore.
There are no registration fees. For further information contact: a.dhillon@warwick.ac.uk.

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.

Recent prior events:

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 were 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). For more about the conference, click here.

APET 13th annual conference was held in Taipei, Taiwan, June 12-14, 2012.

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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