Katherine Cuff

Associate Professor Ph.D. Queens University 2000 Department of Economics Kenneth Taylor Hall, Rm 411 McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 1S7 905-525-9140 x23827 905-521-8232 (fax) cuffk@mcmaster.ca

Teaching: Econ 727 and Econ 731 - Fall 2009; Econ 4A03 - Winter 2010

Research Interests: Optimal Taxation, Fiscal Federalism, Tax Competition

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Recent Research Papers

"Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms," with John Burbidge and John Leach, 2006 Journal of Public Economics, 90, 533-549.

"Capital Tax Competition and Returns to Scale," with John Burbidge, 2005 Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35, 353-373.

"Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms," with Robin Boadway and Nicolas Marceau, 2004, International Tax and Public Finance, 11, 623-645.

"Redistribution and Employment Policies with Endogenous Unemployment," with Robin Boadway and Nicolas Marceau, 2003, Journal of Public Economics, 87, 2407-2430.

"Equalization and the Decentralization of Revenue-Raising in a Federation," with Robin Boadway and Maurice Marchand, 2003, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 5, 201-228. 

"Optimal Policies and the Informal Sector," with Nicolas Marceau, Steeve Mongrain, and Joanne Roberts, McMaster University, Department of Economics Working Part No. 2009-14.

"Preferences over the Fair Division of Goods: Information, Good, and Sample Effects in a Health Context, " with Jeremiah Hurley, Neil Buckley, Mita Giacomini and David Cameron, McMaster University, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2009-01.

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

" Public and Private Health Care Financing with Alternate Public Rationing," with Jeremiah Hurley, Stuart Mestelman, Andrew Muller, and Robert Nuscheler, McMaster University, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2007-07