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2025 Annual Congress of the IIPF in Nairobi, Kenya
The 81st Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) will be held at the United States International University - Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, from August 20-22, 2025.
The theme of the keynote speeches - to be delivered by Rema Hanna, Niels Johannesen, Ravi Kanbur and Oyebola Okunogbe - is "Public Sector Capacities".
Prospective contributors, both practitioners and academics, are invited to submit papers on any topic within the field of public economics.
Selected papers from the 2025 IIPF Congress will be published in a special issue of International Tax and Public Finance.
The Scientific Committee is chaired by Prof. François Gerard (University College London, UK) and Dr. Shafik Hebous (International Monetary Fund, USA).
The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Prof. Amos Njuguna (United States International University, Kenya) and Prof. Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich, Switzerland).
The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2025 (midnight, EAT).
Find the Call for Papers and further links here.
Call for Papers: 2025 Public Finance Conference, ZEW Mannheim
The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, on 22-23 May 2025.
The annual conference invites submissions from all fields of public economics.
The 2025 keynote lectures will be given by Alfons Balmann (IAMO) and Riccardo Crescenzi (LSE). The focus topic of the conference will be "The Future of the EU Budget".
Submissions related to this focus topic of the conference are particularly encouraged.
The best paper written by an author under the age of 35 will be awarded the Heinz König Young Scholar Award at a ceremony during the conference.
The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2025.
Further information about the conference can be found in the Call for Papers and on the website: www.zew.de/publicfinance2025.
✝ IIPF Honorary President Victor Halberstadt
Message from the IIPF President James Hines to IIPF members, September 2024:
"It is my somber duty to report the passing of Victor Halberstadt (1939-2024), an honorary president of IIPF who served as IIPF president from 1987-1990.
At the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus of Public Sector Economics at Leiden University in the Netherlands, having taught there since 1974; he taught previously at the University of Amsterdam from 1965-1974.
Professor Halberstadt was a distinguished scholar, a cherished colleague, and a leading contributor to the world of affairs.
He was widely considered a master in bridging the gap between the theoretical and practical aspects of public finance, a skill he deployed in his many advisory roles for the Dutch government, including its Social and Economics Council and Defense Affairs Advisory Council. Notably, he is credited with helping to resolve the 1981 Dutch cabinet crisis over the budget deficit (for younger IIPF members, that was a truly grim era for government budgets).
Professor Halberstadt served in leading roles on the boards of several nonprofit organizations and private corporations, and the Dutch government honored him as a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and with its Cross of Honor of the Order of the House of Orange.
Professor Halberstadt was a friend and inspiration to IIPF members, and he will be greatly missed."
Obituary posted by Leiden University: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/09/in-memoriam-professor-emeritus-victor-halberstadt-1939---2024
IIPF Annual Congress in Prague, August 2024
The 80th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance will be held at the Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic from August 21-23, 2024.
The theme is 'International Tax Sheltering and Inequality'.
The Scientific Committee is chaired by Professors Dominika Langenmayr (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany) and Daniel Reck (University of Maryland, USA).
The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Dr. Lubomir Cingl (Prague University of Economics and Business, VSE) and Dr. Miroslav Palanský (Charles University).
Submissions are now closed and presenting authors have been notified of the acceptance decision.
The IIPF welcomes presenters and non-presenters, both practitioners and academics, to attend this congress.
Registrations are possible through until August 1, 2024 (for presenters: June 1).
Further information on IIPF website here and on the Congress website.
FinanzArchiv celebrates 140 years (in 2024)
On the occasion of its 140th birthday, FinanzArchiv published a special issue (FinanzArchiv / European Journal of Public Finance vol. 80 no. 1) and announced its new official name.
Cited from the editorial note:
"To celebrate the 140th birthday of the Journal, a special issue brings together a selection of public finance papers authored and co-authored by eminent scholars in the field, including Rick van der Ploeg, Robin Boadway, Katherine Cuff, Thomas Aronsson, Katarzyna Bilicka and Ottmar Edenhofer.
From 2024, the official name will be FinanzArchiv - European Journal of Public Finance. We believe that the new subtitle better reflects the Journal's long history, which is rooted in a European tradition of public finance, but also better reflects the high ambition of the Journal."
Read more on the website of the journal.
IIPF members are entitled to a substantially reduced subscription rate for FinanzArchiv - see IIPF membership.
16th IIPF and CESifo Richard Musgrave Lecture on 21 March 2024
In 2008, the CESifo Group and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) established the Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship, to honour the memory of one of Public Finance's greatest scholars. The award winner is chosen through a formal selection process by the President and Vice Presidents of IIPF together with the President of the CESifo Group.
The committee selected Prof. Henrik Kleven (Princeton University) as the 2024 award winner.
On March 21, 2024 he delivered the 16th CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Lecture on "The Child Penalty Atlas" at CESifo / ifo Institute in Munich, Germany.
Further information on the Musgrave Professorship can be found here, and the video of the event is available on the CESifo website.
Vito Tanzi writes about IIPF annual congresses
Professor Vito Tanzi, Honorary President of IIPF, published three books in which he reports on previous IIPF annual congresses.
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2017) examines how the growth of the government's involvement in the economy has been accompanied by growing complexity which has facilitated, for some well connected or just lucky individuals, the getting of rents leading to growing inequality in the distribution of income. This book includes the most detailed "anatomy" of a public sector available in the literature.
In Russian Bears and Somali Sharks: Transition and Other Passages (New York, Jorge Pinot Books Inc., 2010) he examines seven economies that have undergone some kind of transition. The book comprises proceedings of the IIPF congresses in Italy (Taormina) 1979, Portugal 1995, and Russia 1999.
Peoples, Places and Policies: China, Japan and Southeast Asia (New York, Jorge Pinot Books Inc., 2008) describes two IIPF annual congresses, Korea 1992 and Kyoto 1997, as well as some events connected with them.
These books may contribute to the history of the IIPF and encourage IIPF members to relate similar experiences in future books.
Other titles recently published:
Monitoring the State or the Market: From Laissez Faire to Market Fundamentalism (Cambridge University Press, 2023),
The Economics of Government (Oxford University Press, 2020),
Advanced Introduction to Public Finance (Edward Elgar, 2020),
The Ecology of Tax Systems Factors that Shape the Demand and Supply of Taxes (Edward Elgar, 2018),
Government Versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2011),
Dollar, Euros and Debt. How we got into the Fiscal Crisis and how we get out of it (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Dal Miracolo Economico al Declino?
Vito Tanzi's books can be purchased via Amazon.
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