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John Burbidge

Professor
BA Mathematics & Economics (McGill), Ph.D (McGill)

Office: Hagey Hall 125
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 37204
Email: jburbidg@uwaterloo.ca

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Research Interests:

Publications:

 

  • J.B. Burbidge and K. Cuff (2009) “Mandatory Retirement and Incentives in University Defined-Benefit Pension Plans”, in M. Abbott, C. Beach, R. Boadway, and J. MacKinnon (eds.), Retirement Policy Issues in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press: Kingston), pp. 353-374.
  • J.B. Burbidge, K. Cuff and J. Leach (2006) “Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms,” Journal of Public Economics, 90, pp. 533-549. Special issue published in cooperation with the National Bureau of Economic Research: Proceedings of the Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar on Fiscal Federalism 20–22 May 2004.
  • J.B. Burbidge and K. Cuff (2005) “Capital Tax Competition and Returns to Scale,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35, pp. 353-373.
  • J.B. Burbidge (2004) “Tax Deferred Savings Plans and Interest Deductibility,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 37, pp. 757-767.
  • J.B. Burbidge and G.M. Myers (2004) “Tariff Wars and Trade Deals with Costly Government,” Review of International Economics, 12, pp. 543-549.
  • J.B. Burbidge, L. Magee and A.L. Robb (2002) “The Education Premium in Canada and the United States,” Canadian Public Policy, 28, pp. 203-214.
  • J.B. Burbidge and R. Finnie (2001) “The Inter-Provincial Mobility of Baccalaureate Graduates: Who Moves and When,” Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 23, pp. 377-401.

Work in Progress:

  • J.B. Burbidge, K.A. Collins, J.B. Davies and L. Magee, "Effective Tax and Subsidy Rates on Human Capital in Canada", submitted.
  • J.B. Burbidge and L. Magee (2007) “Earnings Profiles for Computing Effective Tax Rates,” working paper produced for the Department of Finance, Ottawa.
 

Other (workshops):

2007

2004

  • Discussed “Recent Changes in Effective Tax Rates on First-Degree University Level Human Capital in Canada” by Kirk Collins and Jim Davies and “Who Uses RESPs and Why” by Kevin Milligan at a JDI Conference held at Queen’s

  • Discussed “Can Regional Policy in a Federation Improve Economic Efficiency?” by Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber at an NBER-CESifo Conference held in Munich, Germany.

  • Discussed “Savings Incentives and OAS/GIS Costs”, by Keith Horner, in “Tax Policy Research Symposium: Perspectives from Law & Accounting”, Sponsored by the Deloitte Centre for Tax Education and Research, University of Waterloo, Organized by Tim Edgar and Alan Macnaughton; conference held in Toronto.

 

2003

  • Discussed “Innovation, Venture Capital Financing and Tax Policy” at the CEA Meetings, Ottawa.

  • Presented “Capital Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms and Agglomeration Effects” at the University of Waterloo.