Fairness, equality of opportunity and public economics

PAI, EST event

Friday, 9 April 2010

09.30 :            Welcome

Chair : Erik Schokkaert

09.30 - 10.30 : Marc FLEURBAEY, Université Paris Descartes, CERSES
                      Ex-ante and ex post equality of opportunity

Coffee

10.55 - 11.40 : Paolo PIACQUADIO, UCL CORE
                      Efficiency and no-envy in dynamic resource allocation

11.45  -12.30 : Juan MORENO-TERNERO, Universidad de Malaga
                      A common ground for resource and welfare egalitarianism

Lunch

Chair : François Maniquet

14.00 - 14.45 :  Vito PERAGINE, University of Bari
                      Long term income and opportunity inequality

14.50 - 15.35 : Erwin OOGHE, KUL CES
                      Optimal taxation with partial control: theory and evidence

Coffee

16.00 - 16.45 :  Dirk VAN DE GAER, University of Ghent, SHERPA
                      A comparision of optimal tax policies when compensation and responsibility matter

16.50 - 17.35 : André DECOSTER, KUL CES
                      Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply

 Saturday, 10 April 2010

Chair : Jean Hindriks

09.30 - 10.15 : Francisco FERREIRA, The World Bank
                      Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: The case of Turkey 

10.20 - 11.05 : Valentino DARDANONI, University of Palermo
                      Intergenerational education mobility

Coffee

11.30 - 12.15 : Alain TRANNOY, GREQAM-IDEP, EHESS
                      Dworkin is right

12.20 - 13.05 : Frank COWELL, London School of Economics
                      The tyranny of aggregation versus the tyranny of non-aggregation: an empirical investigation

Lunch

Chair : Claude d'Aspremont

14.15 - 15.00 : Christelle SAPATA, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona
                      Comparing frameworks in measuring inequality of opportunity

15.05 - 15.50 : John ROEMER, University of Yale                      
                     On the representation of responsibility-egalitarian rules

15.55 - 16.40 : Herve MOULIN, Rice University
                      Impartial award of a prize

Organizing committee
Erik Schokkaert (KUL CES and UCL CORE)
Marc Fleurbaey (Université Paris Descartes, CERSES)
François Maniquet (UCL CORE)
Dirk van de Gaer (University Ghent)

Sponsors
Communauté Française de Belgique
EST Programme, European Commission
Politique Scientifique Fédérale
Université catholique de Louvain, CORE

Registration
REGISTRATION FREE BUT MANDATORY WITH Catherine Germain (catherine.germain@uclouvain.be) 
BEFORE APRIL 5, 2010

Location of Meeting
CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Room b-135
34, voie du Roman Pays, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
How to reach CORE

Contact & information
Catherine Germain, Executive secretary
Email : catherine.germain@uclouvain.be
Phone : +32 10 474321, fax : +32 10 474301