Robin Boadway
Education
B.Eng. (Royal Military College of Canada), B.A., B.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Queen's); Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
Present Positions
Sir Edward Peacock Professor and former Head, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Canada;
Editor, Journal of Public Economics;
Editorial Board, International Taxation and Public Finance, National Tax Journal, Canadian Tax Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics
Past Positions
Former Editor, Canadian Journal of Economics, German Economic Review;
Past-President, Canadian Economics Association
Selected Publications
Public Sector Economics (Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop Publishers, 1979); Revised Edition, with David E. Wildasin, (Boston: Little-Brown, 1984);
Welfare Economics, with Neil Bruce, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984);
'The Welfare Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis,' Economic Journal 84, (December 1974), 926-39;
'Integrating Equity and Efficiency in Applied Welfare Economic', Quarterly Journal of Economics 90 (Nov. 1976), 541-56;
'On the Method of Taxation and the Provision of Local Public Goods,' American Economic Review 72 (Sept. 1982), 846-51;
'Efficiency and Equalization Payments in a Federal System of Government: A Synthesis and Extension of Recent Results,' with Frank R. Flatters, Canadian Journal of Economics 15 (November 1982), 613-33;
'A General Proposition on the Design of a Neutral Business Tax,' with Neil Bruce, Journal of Public Economics 24 (July 1984), 231-39;
'Public Goods, Self-Selection and Optimal Income Taxation,' with Michael Keen, International Economic Review 34 (August, 1993), 463-78;
'The Use of Public Expenditures for Redistributive Purposes,' with Maurice Marchand, Oxford Economic Papers 47 (1995), 45-59;
'Redistribution,' with Michael Keen, in Anthony B. Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon (eds.), Handbook of Income Distribution Volume 1 (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2000), 677-789.
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