Wednesday 7th June
Thursday 8th June
Friday 9th June
19.00 - 21.00 Opening reception and registration, Statistics Norway, Kongens gate 6
08.45 - 09.30 Coffee and registration
09.30 - 09.45 Opening
Welcome address:
Øystein Olsen, Director General, Statistics Norway
09.45 - 10.45 Invited lecture 1
Guyonne Kalb, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research:
Evaluation of Policy Options to Encourage to Work
Chair: Thor O. Thoresen
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.40 Redistribution
Chair: Thor O. Thoresen
Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Thilo Schaefer, University of Cologne:
Does Tax Simplification yield more Equity and Efficiency? An empirical
analysis for Germany
Bart Capéau, André
Decoster, Kris De Swerdt and Kristian
Orsini, Centre for
Economic Studies - KU Leuven: Distributional Impact of Shifting the Base of
Financing Social Security from Personal Contributions to Indirect Taxes
Amadeo Fuenmayor Fernández ,Rafael Granell Pérez and Francisco Higón
Tamarit,
Universidad de Valencia: The Spanish Income Tax: Micro-simulation of
Regional Government Policies
Heikki Viitamäki, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT): The
Flat Tax: A Case Finland
12.40 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 . 14.30 Invited lecture 2
John Dagsvik, Statistics Norway: Labour Supply Analysis: Practical
Modelling and Prediction Performance.
Chair: Ingeborg Foldøy Solli
14.30 - 14.45 Coffee break
14.45 - 16.00 Taxes, benefits and labour supply 1
Chair: Ingeborg Foldøy Solli
Frederik Hansen, Ministry of Finance, Denmark: Making Work Pay Policies:
Case Study Denmark
Stéphane Jetté, Ministry of Finance, Canada: Old Age Security Program and
Options.
Melanie Arntz, Stefan Boeters, Nicole Gürtzgen and Stefanie
Schubert, Centre
for European Economic Research, Mannheim and CPB, Netherlands Bureau for
Economic Policy Analysis, Den Haag: Analysing Welfare Reform in a
Microsimulation-Age Model: The Value of Disaggregation.
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee break with refreshments
16.15 - 17.30 Taxes, benefits and labour supply 2
Chair: Heikki Viitamäki
Kristian Orsini, KU Leuven: Tax-Benefits Reforms and the Labour Market:
Evidence from Belgium and other EU Countries
Anita Haataja, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT): Parental
Live Benefit
Thor O. Thoresen, Jørgen Aasness, Zhiyang Jia, Statistics Norway: The
Short-term Ratio of Self-financing: More Realistic Estimates of Revenue
Changes from Tax Cuts
19.30 - 23.00 Dinner at Holmenkollen Restaurant, Holmenkollveien 119
09.00 - 10.00 Invited lecture 3
Steven Caldwell, Cornell University: Dynamic Microsimulation: Directions for
Improvement
Chair: Nils Martin Stølen
10.00 - 10.15 Coffee break
10.15 - 12.00 Dynamic microsimulation, pensions and welfare 1
Chair: Nils Martin Stølen
Rick Morrison, Dynacan Team, Canada: Make it so: Event Alignment in Dynamic
Microsimulation
Simon Gault, Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom: A Generic
Approach to Dynamic Microsimulation Modelling.
Roberto Leumbruni and Matteo Richiardi, LABORatorio R. Revelli centre for
Employment Studies, Torino: The Long term Impact of a Decade of pension
Reforms in Italy: A Microsimulation Study.
Einar Holm, Urban Lindgren, Erling Häggström
Lundevaller and Magnus
Strömgren, Umeå University: The SVERIGE
Models.
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.15 Dynamic microsimulation, pensions and welfare 2
Chair: Olle Sundberg
Thomas Pettersson, Tomas Pettersson and Anna Westerberg,
Ministry of Finance
and National Board of Health Insurance, Sweden: Intergenerational
Redistribution through Public Sector Measures
Nils Martin
Stølen, Statistics Norway: How to Prevent Increased Pension
Expenditures in a Defined Benefit System when Life Expectancy Improves
Ingeborg Foldøy
Solli and Magne Mogstad, Statistics Norway: Does it Pay to
Work in a Welfare State?
14.15 - 14.30 Coffee break
14.30 - 15.45 Health and spatial microsimulation
Chair: Anil Gupta
Silja
Jenssen, Informetrica Limited, Ottawa: The Relationship between
Self-perceived Health Status and Utilization of Physicians.
Laurie
Brown, Sharyn Lymer, Alicia Payne and Ann
Harding, National Centre for
Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra: Modelling the Use and
Costs of Medical and Related Services in Australia.
John E. Cullinan, Stephen Hynes and Cathal O.Donoghue,
Rural Economic
Research Centre (RERC), Teagasc and Department of economics, National
University of Ireland, Galway: The Use of Spatial Microsimulation and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Benefit Function Transfer . An
Application to Modelling the Demand for Recreational Activities in
Ireland.
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