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Katherine Cuff

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Public Economic Theory

Kenneth Taylor Hall, Rm 411
Office Fax: 905-521-8232
 Work: 905-525-9140 ext. 23827

Education:

  1. Ph.D. Queens University 2000

Biography:

Teaching

ECON 731 - Winter 2012


Research Interests: Optimal Taxation, Fiscal Federalism, Tax Competition

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Forthcoming Papers

Cuff, K., N. Marceau, S. Mongrain, and J. Roberts (2010) "Optimal Policies and the Informal Sector," Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

Cuff, K., J. Hurley, S. Mestelman, A. Muller, and R. Nuscheler (2010) "Public and Private Health Care Financing with Alternate Public Rationing Rules," Health Economics, forthcoming.

Hurley, J., N. Buckley, K. Cuff, M. Giacomini, and D. Cameron (2010) "Judgments Regarding the Fair Division of Goods: The Impact of Verbal versus Quantitative Descriptions of Alternative Divisions," Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming.

Published Papers

Burbidge, J. and K. Cuff, 'Mandatory Retirement and incentives in University Defined - Benefit Pension Plans,' in Michael G. Abbott, Charles M. Beach, Robin W. Boadway, and James G. MacKinnon (eds.) Retirement Policy Issues in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press: Kingston), 2009.

Boadway, R., K. Cuff, and N. Marceau (2008), "Design of Assistance programs to Address Real income Volatility,' in Dean Jolliffe and James Ziliak (eds.) Income Volatility and Food Assistance in the United States (W.E. Upjohn Institute: Michigan).

Burbidge, J., K. Cuff, and J. Leach (2006), "Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms," Journal of Public Economics, 90, 533-549.

Burbidge, J. and K. Cuff (2005), "Capital Tax Competition and Returns to Scale," Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35, 353-373.

Boadway, R., K. Cuff and N. Marceau (2004), "Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms," International Tax and Public Finance, 11, 623-645.

Boadway, R., K. Cuff, and N. Marceau (2003), "Redistribution and Employment Policies with Endogenous Unemployment," Journal of Public Economics, 87, 2407-2430.

Boadway, R., K. Cuff, and M. Marchand (2003), "Equalization and the Decentralization of Revenue-Raising in a Federation," Journal of Public Economic Theory, 5, 201-228. 

Working Papers

Cuff, K. and N. Marceau, (2008) "Tenancy Default, Excess Demand, and the Rental Market," McMaster University, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2007-08 (revised May 2008).

Buckley, N., K. Cuff, J. Hurley, L. McLeod, R. Nuscheler, and D. Cameron, (2009) 'Willingness-to-Pay for Parallel Private Health Insurance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment,' mimeo.

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