Katherine Cuff - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), Faculty of Health Sciences
Professor, Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences
Canada Research Chair in Public Economic Theory, McMaster University,

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books
- Tax Policy 2022
chapters
- The Recent Evolution of Redistribution in Canad 2014
- The Recent Evolution of Tax-Transfer Policies. 335-358. 2013
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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