Katherine Cuff
Member of the IIPF Board of Management, 2018–2021
Status of CV: for elections, Summer 2018Education
PhD, Economics (Queen's University, Canada)
Master in Arts, Economics (York University, Canada)
Bacholar of Arts, Honours Economics (Queen's University, Canada)
Present Positions
Professor of Economics, McMaster University, Canada
Other Activities
Honours
Canadian Research Chair in Public Economic Theory, Tier II, 2009 – present
University Scholar, McMaster University, 2015 – present
Editorial and Referring Activities
Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Economics, starting July 2018
Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Tax and Public Finance, 2016 – present
Editor, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2014 – 2017
Guest Co-Editor, IIPF Special Issue of the International Tax and Public Finance, 2016 – 2017
Associate Editor, Canadian Public Policy, 2011 – 2015
Professional Service and Activities
Co-organizer, Joint Canadian Public Economics Group/Public Economics United Kingdom Workshop, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, April 2018.
Member, Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance, 2011 – 2014, 2014 – 2017.
Member, Scientific Committee, Canadian Public Economics Group, UQAM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2016.
Co-chair Scientific Committee, International Institute of Public Finance 72nd Annual Congress, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States, 2016.
Member, Scientific Committee, 70th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Lugano, Switzerland, 2014
Organizer, Canadian Public Economics Group Sessions, Canadian Economics Association Meetings, Montreal, Canada, 2013
Member, Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance, 2011 – 2014
President of the Canadian Women Economists Network, 2010 – 2011
Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Canadian Public Economic Group, 2011
Executive Council Member of the Canadian Economics Association, 2007 – 2010
Organizer of the Canadian Public Economics Group 10th Annual Meeting, 2005
Selected Publications
“Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Redistribution,” with Robin Boadway, Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming.
“The Impressive Contribution of Canadian Economists to Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Policy,” with Robin Boadway, Canadian Journal of Economics 50(5) (December 2017), 1348–1380.
“Should I stay or should I go? Exit options within mixed systems of public and private health care finance,” with Neil Buckley, Jeremiah Hurley, Stuart Mestelman, Stephanie Thomas and David Cameron, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 113B (November 2016), 62–77.
“Support for Public Provision of a Private Good with Top-Up and Opt-Out: A Controlled Laboratory Experiment,” with Neil Buckley, Jeremiah Hurley, Stuart Mestelman, Stephanie Thomas and David Cameron, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (March 2015), 177–196.
“Tax Treatment of Bequests when Donor Benefits are Discounted,” with Robin Boadway, International Tax and Public Finance 22 (August 2015), 604–634.
“Monitoring and Optimal Income Taxation with Involuntary Unemployment,” with Robin Boadway, Annals of Economics and Statistics 113/114 (June 2014), 121–157.
“Public and Private Health Care Financing with Alternate Public Rationing,” with Neil Buckley, Jeremiah Hurley, Logan McLeod, Stuart Mestelman, and David Cameron, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84(3) (December 2012), 713–729.
“Dominant Strategy Implementation with a Convex Product Space of Valuations,” with Sunghoon Hong, Jesse A. Schwartz, Quan Wen, and John A. Weymark, Social Choice and Welfare 39(2-3) (July 2012), 567–597.
“Willingness-to-pay for Parallell Private Health Insurance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment,” with Neil Buckley, Jeremiah Hurley, Logan McLeod, Robert Nuscheler, and David Cameron, Canadian Journal of Economics 45(1) (Feburary 2012), 137–166.
“Public and Private Health Care Financing with Alternate Public Rationing,” with Jeremiah Hurley, Stuart Mestelman, Andrew Muller, and Robert Nuscheler, Health Economics 21(2) (January 2012), 83–100.
“Optimal Policies and the Informal Sector,” with Nicolas Marceau, Steeve Mongrain, and Joanne Roberts, Journal of Public Economics, 95(11-12) (December 2011), 1280–1291.
“Judgments Regarding the Fair Division of Goods: The Impact of Verbal versus Quantitative Descriptions of Alternative Divisions,” with Jeremiah Hurley, Neil Buckley, Mita Giacomini and David Cameron, Social Choice and Welfare, 37(2) (July 2011), 341–372.
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