Katherine Cuff - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
Professor, Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences
Canada Research Chair in Public Economic Theory, McMaster University, Center For Health Economics & Policy Analysis (CHEPA)

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Canadian politics and government (RA)

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books
- Tax Policy 2022
chapters
- The Recent Evolution of Redistribution in Canad 2014
community engaged research
- Exploring the Role of the Canadian Personal Income Tax System in Supporting Individual and Family Healthcare Expenses
conferences
- Design of Assistance Programs to Address Real Income Volatility. INCOME VOLATILITY AND FOOD ASSISTANCE IN THE UNITED STATES. 217-258. 2008
- Tax competition with heterogeneous firms. Journal of Public Economics. 533-549. 2006
- Redistribution and employment policies with endogenous unemployment. Journal of Public Economics. 2407-2430. 2003
- Inter‐Jurisdictional Competition for Firms*. International Economic Review. 761-782. 2002
- Monitoring job search as an instrument for targeting transfers. International Tax and Public Finance. 317-337. 1999
journal articles
- A Tax Reform Approach to Commodity Taxation with Families. Finanz - Archiv : Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Finanzwesen. 80:3-3. 2024
- The Case for Uniform Commodity Taxation: A Tax Reform Approach. Hacienda Publica Espanola. 244:79-109. 2023
- A generalization of the Deaton-Hellwig results on uniform commodity taxation. Journal of Public Economics. 214:104731-104731. 2022
- Generalization of the Deaton Theorem: Piecewise Linear Income Taxation and Participation Decisions. CESifo Working Paper. 2021
- The evasion of fiscal and labor regulations: Firm behavior and optimal tax policy. Journal of Public Economic Theory. 22:69-97. 2020
- Can Self-Financing Redeem the Basic Income Guarantee? Disincentives, Efficiency Costs, Tax Burdens, and Attitudes: A Rejoinder. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 44:447-457. 2018
- A Behavioral Economic Study of Tax Rate Selection by the Median Voter: Can the Tax Rate be Influenced by the Name of the Publicly Provided Private Good?. Theoretical Economics Letters. 8:485-501. 2018
- The impressive contribution of Canadian economists to fiscal federalism theory and policy. Canadian Journal of Economics, The. 50:1348-1380. 2017
- Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy. International Tax and Public Finance. 24:547-549. 2017
- Call for Papers Insignificant Results in Public Finance. Finanz - Archiv : Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Finanzwesen. 73:134-134. 2017
- Should I stay or should I go? Exit options within mixed systems of public and private health care finance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 131:62-77. 2016
- Tax treatment of bequests when donor benefits are discounted. International Tax and Public Finance. 22:604-634. 2015
- Support for public provision of a private good with top-up and opt-out: A controlled laboratory experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 111:177-196. 2015
- Editorial Note. Finanz - Archiv : Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Finanzwesen. 70:1-1. 2014
- Monitoring and Optimal Income Taxation with Involuntary Unemployment. Annals of Economics and Statistics. 121-157. 2014
- An experimental investigation of mixed systems of public and private health care finance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 84:713-729. 2012
- Dominant strategy implementation with a convex product space of valuations. Social Choice and Welfare. 39:567-597. 2012
- Public and private health‐care financing with alternate public rationing rules. Health Economics. 21:83-100. 2012
- Public and private health‐care financing with alternate public rationing rules. Health Economics. 21:83-100. 2012
- Willingness‐to‐pay for parallel private health insurance: evidence from a laboratory experiment. Canadian Journal of Economics, The. 45:137-166. 2012
- An experimental investigation of mixed systems of public and private health care finance 2012
- Optimal Policies with an Informal Sector. Journal of Public Economics. 95:1280-1291. 2011
- Judgments regarding the fair division of goods: the impact of verbal versus quantitative descriptions of alternative divisions. Social Choice and Welfare. 37:341-372. 2011
- Optimal Policies with an Informal Sector 2011
- Capital tax competition and returns to scale. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 35:353-373. 2005
- Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms. International Tax and Public Finance. 11:623-645. 2004
- Capital Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms and Agglomeration Effects 2004
- Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 29:525-525. 2003
- Equalization and the Decentralization of Revenue–Raising in a Federation. Journal of Public Economic Theory. 5:201-228. 2003
- A minimum wage can be welfare-improving and employment-enhancing. European Economic Review. 45:553-576. 2001
- Optimality of workfare with heterogeneous preferences. Canadian Journal of Economics, The. 33:149-174. 2000
- Optimal Income Taxation with Quasi-linear Preferences Revisited.. Journal of Public Economic Theory. 2. 2000
preprints
reports
- Willingness-to-Pay for Parallel Private Health Insurance: Evidence from Laboratory Experiment 2010
- Preferences over the Fair Division of Goods: Information, Good, and Sample Effects in a Health Context 2009
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