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PET 2000

International Conference on Public Economic Theory

University of Warwick

July 20 - July 23, 2000

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General Information.

Most participants were accommodated on campus.

The University of Warwick is located near the city of Coventry and the Birmingham International airport. Coventry is about an hour and a half from London (and London-Heathrow) by train. The University is about a £6 cab ride from Coventry and a £20 cab ride from Birmingham airport.

Abstract and Paper Submission Deadline

Abstracts, with a complete mailing address and e-mail address, Were sent to the conference administrator, Fiona Brown, by March 1, 2000. E-mail submissions were preferred. Papers contributed in PDF form were be posted on the conference web site unless otherwise requested. The conference administrator was:

Fiona Brown,
PET 2000, Department of Economics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL
mailto:f.brown@warwick.ac.uk

Registration

The registration fee for the conference was £50 (£25 for students) if paid by April 15th , 2000 or £80 (£50 for students) thereafter. The registration fee included a one-year subscription to the Journal of Public Economic Theory, membership in APET, all conference receptions and coffee and tea breaks. Current members of APET received a £15 discount.

Accommodation

Rooms (en suite, i.e., with bath) were reserved on the Warwick University campus for conference participants. The rooms were very pleasant, and had only single beds. Rooms were allocated on a first come first serve basis and guaranteed by the payment of the registration fee. The charge for the three night stay (arrival Thursday 20th - departing Sunday 23rd ) was be £225.

This cost included all meals beginning with lunch on Thursday and ending with lunch on Sunday. Alternatively, there were charming bed and breakfast places and hotels in the nearby towns.

Financial assistance.

A limited amount of financial assistance was available on application to APET.

Programme Committee

Norman Ireland, Chair (Department of Economics, University of Warwick)
Ben Lockwood, Co-Chair (Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick)
Claude D'Aspremont (CORE, Louvain La Neuve)
Salvador Barbera (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Charles Blackorby (University of British Columbia)
Michel Le Breton (Aix and CORE, Louvain la Neuve)
Xavier Calsamiglia (University of Pompeu Fabre)
Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)
John Conley (University of Illinois)
Nicholas Gravel (Cergy-Pontoise)
Peter Hammond (Stanford University)
Toshihiro Ihiro (Tokyo University)
Jean-Francois Mertens (CORE, Louvain la Neuve).Herve Moulin (Rice University)
Frank Page (University of Alabama)
Mario Pascoa (New University of Lisbon)
David Wildasin (Vanderbuilt University)

And the Warwick group,

Jonathan Cave,
Michael Devereux,
Amrita Dhillon,
Sayantan Ghosal,
Marcus Miller,
Andrew Oswald,
Carlo Perroni,
Kimberly Scharf,
Philip Trostel,
Ian Walker,
John Whalley,
Myrna Wooders