Mario Jametti
Associate Professor Università della Svizzera italiana IdEP Via Giuseppe Buffi 13 6904 Lugano Switzerland e-mail: mario.jametti@usi.ch
News Join us in Lugano for the IIPF conference: www.iipf2014.ch Visit our research on: www.fiscalfederalism.ch Career and Studies (CV) Ph.D., University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2000-2004) MA, McMaster University, Canada (1995-1996) Licence en économie politique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (1992-1995) Academic Positions held Associate Professor, IdEP Institute, University of Lugano, Switzerland (2012-). Assistant Professor, MecoP Institute, University of Lugano, Switzerland (2008-2012). Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, York University, Canada (2006-2009). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McMaster University, Canada. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2004-2006) Lecturer, Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua (1999-2000) Lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias Comerciales, Universidad de Santiago, Chile (1998) Publications Pension Benefit Insurance and Pension Plan Portfolio Choice (with Thomas Crossley). Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1): 337-341, 2013. Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials? (with Marius Brülhart and Kurt Schmidheiny). Economic Journal 122(563): 1069-1093, 2012. “Risk Selection in Natural Disaster Insurance” (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 166:344-364, 2010. Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance – An Overview of Theory and Evidence. Canadian Public Policy 34(s1): 39-46, 2008. "Vertical Versus Horizontal Tax Competition: An Empirical Test" (with Marius Brülhart). Journal of Public Economics 90(10-11): 2027-2062, 2006. "Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider - a measurement error approach" (with Thomas von Ungern - Sternberg), The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (formerly Geneva Papers) 30:15-34, 2005 Research (papers available in pdf format) All papers can be downloaded on my Repec/Econpapers page. “Weathering the Global Financial Crisis – Is Direct Democracy of any Help?”. IdEP Economic Papers 2014/05. “Elections and de facto Expenditure Decentralization in Canada” (with Marcelin Joanis, 2014). CESifo Working Paper 4791, IdEP Economic Papers 2014/04. “The Power to Pass on Taxes: a Test for Tax Shifting Based on Observables” (with Agustin Redonda and Anindya Sen), USI Quaderno 13-01. “Highway to Economic Growth? Competition in Public Works Tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo” (with Sergio Galletta and Agustin Redonda). USI Quaderno 12-08. Revise and resubmit South African Journal of Economics. “How to Tame Two Leviathans? Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure” (with Sergio Galletta). CESifo Working Paper 3982. Revise and resubmit European Journal of Political Economy. “Electoral Competition as a Determinant of Fiscal Decentralization” (with Marcelin Joanis). CESifo Working Paper #3574. 2^nd revise and resubmit Fiscal Studies. Hurricane Insurance in Florida (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg). Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan? (with Marius Brülhart). CEPR Discussion Paper 6512. Die Übernahme von Denner durch Migros verstösst gegen das Kartellgesetz (with Thomas von Ungern). Cahiers de Recherche DEEP N°07.02. "Disaster Insurance or a Disastrous Insurance - Natural Disaster Insurance in France" (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg). CESifo Working Paper #1303. "Der Bericht der Expertengruppe: 'Reform der Währungsordnung' - Eine kritische Würdigung" (with Thomas von Ungern - Sternberg), Cahiers de Recherche DEEP N°01.06 Journalism Una leggera pressione fiscale. La Regione, December 2013 In 30 anni diminuite le tasse. Giornale del Popolo, December 2013 Firm in Clustered Industries Are Prepared to Pay Higher Taxes. Economic Journal Media Briefing, September 2012 Wider das Vorhaben von Economiesuisse on a PPP for the Saint Gotthard tunnel, featured in Neue Zürcher Zeitung on August 16, 2012. Tax competition tames big government featured in www.voxeu.org on November 2, 2007. Thomas’ and my piece on the acquisition of the number 3 retailer by the number 1 in Switzerland (in French). It appeared in Le Temps on April 23, 2007. Personal · Interlaken, Switzerland, try Rugenbräu. · Two reasons to like Toronto: Paupers and the Blue Jays.