Jim Davies

Professor

Research Interests

Distribution of Wealth, Tax Policy

Teaching Fields

Public Economics

Selected Publications

Davies, James B., Jinli Zeng, and Jie Zhang. "Time-Consistent Taxation in a Dynastic Family Model with Human and Physical Capital and a Balanced Budget Constraint," Canadian Journal of Economics 42, 3 (2009): 1023-49.

James B. Davies, "Combining Microsimulation with CGE and Macro Modelling for Distributional Analysis in Developing and Transition Countries", International Journal of Microsimulation 2 (1), 2009: 49-65.

James B. Davies (ed.) Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2008. http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Perspective-Studies-Development-Economics/dp/0199548897

Zhang, Jie, James B. Davies, Jinli Zeng, and Stuart McDonald. "Optimal Taxation in a Growth Model with Public Consumption and Home Production," Journal of Public Economics 92, 3-4 (2008): 885-896.

James B. Davies, Martin G. Kocher and Matthias Sutter, "Economics Research in Canada: A Long-Run Assessment of Journal Publications", Canadian Journal of Economics 41 (1), February 2008: 22-45.

Davies, James B., Jinli Zeng and Zie Zhang, "Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Under Private vs. Public Education," Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107(3) (2005): 399-418.

Collins, Kirk A., and James B. Davies, "Measuring Effective Tax Rates on Human Capital: Methodology and an Application to Canada," in Peter Birch Sorensen (ed.), Measuring the Tax Burden on Capital and Labor, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004: 171-212.

Davies, James B. and Michael Hoy, "Flat Rates Taxes and Inequality Measurement," Journal of Public Economics 84(1): 33-46 (2002).

Davies, James B., Jinli Zeng and Jie Zhang, "Consumption vs. Income Taxes When Private Human Capital Investments are Imperfectly Observable", Journal of Public Economics 77 (2000): 1-28.

Davies, James B. and Anthony F. Shorrocks, "The Distribution of Wealth", in A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.) Handbook of Income Distribution, North-Holland Elsevier (2000): 605-75.

Working Papers

Closing the 49th Parallel: An Unexplored Episode in Canadian Economic and Political History (with Stan Winer)

Recent Changes in Effective Tax Rates on PSE Level Human Capital in Canada (with Kirk A. Collins)

The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth (with Susanna Sandström, Anthony B. Shorrocks and Edward N. Wolff)
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Courses

  • 9629B - Public Finance II
    Section - 001