We are pleased to announce the seventh edition of the Tinbergen Institute Public Economics Workshop, to be held at Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam, on Wednesday 18 November 2026. This is a twice-yearly event that brings together leading scholars in Public Economics and adjacent fields from around the world.
- Date
- Wednesday 18 Nov 2026, 13:00 - 18:00
- Type
- Workshop
- Room
- C2-1
- Building
- Theil Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Programme
The workshop takes place in the afternoon (13:00-18:00) and consists of four presentations of 50 minutes each, followed by a joint dinner (19:00-21:30). See the detailed programme below:
Workshop schedule
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Room open |
| 13:00 - 13:10 | Welcome |
| 13:10 - 14:00 | Spencer Bastani (IFAU / Uppsala University) Designing redistribution with endogenous transfer take-up |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Break |
| 14:25 - 15:15 | Albert Jan Hummel (University of Groningen) The marginal cost of public funds: A macroeconomic approach |
| 15:15 - 15:55 | Coffee break |
| 15:55 - 16:45 | Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank) The elasticity of corporate taxable income across countries |
| 16:45 - 17:10 | Break |
| 17:10 - 18:00 | Marko Köthenbürger (ETH Zürich) TBA |
| From 19:00 | Dinner at Portugalia Tasca (TBC), 2e Middellandstraat 2B, 3021 BM Rotterdam |
Registration
Please register online to receive further practical details. It is also possible to register and attend a subset of presentations. When registering, please let us know if you are interested to join for dinner. Note that dinner is subject to limited capacity, so registrations for dinner can only be confirmed (by email) in due course.
Organisers
Erasmus School of Economics
Aart Gerritsen, Dirk Schindler, Kevin Spiritus
VU Amsterdam
Bas Jacobs
