Department of Economics
Faculty of Arts.
Vari Hall
York University
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
CANADA

Phone: (416) 736-5083 ext 77026
Fax: (416) 736-5987
email : sam@dept.econ.yorku.ca
web page : http://dept.econ.yorku.ca/~sam

Education

B.Sc. University of Toronto, 1973
M.Sc. London School of Economics, 1974
Ph.D. Yale University, 1979

Current Position

Professor
2005-­
Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts
York University

Previous Positions

Associate Professor
1990 ­- 2005
Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts
York University

Associate Professor
1984 -­ 1990
Department of Economics
University of Western Ontario

Visiting Associate Professor
1984 -­ 1985
Department of Economics
Columbia University

Asssistant Professor
1979 ­- 1984
Department of Economics
University of Western Ontario

Lecturer
1978 ­-1979
Department of Economics
University of Western Ontario

Teaching
Undergraduate : Principles of Economics (micro) ; Intermediate Microeconomics ; Urban Economics ;
Public Economics ; Cost­Benefit Analysis ; Industrial Organization ; Income Distribution ; Advanced
Microeconomics
Graduate : Public Economics ; Advanced Microeconomics ( Ph D ) ; Microeconomic Theory I (Ph D);
Applied Microeconomics ( M.A. )

Administration

Graduate Director
1986 ­- 1988
Economics
University of Western Ontario

Chair
1997 ­- 2000
Economics, Faculty of Arts
York University

Publications : Refereed Journals

"Optimal Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Mobility", Journal of Public Economics 16 ( 1981 ),
October, 171­191
"Inequality in the Local Public Sector", Journal of Political Economy 90 (1982), February, 128­145
"Price Dispersion and Stockpiling by Consumers", Review of Economic Studies 50 ( 1983 ), July,
443­466 [ correction, January 1985 ]
"On the Use of Distributional Waits", Canadian Journal of Economics 17 ( 1984 ), November,
699­717
( with John Chilton )"Concurrent Renting and Selling in a Durable­Goods Monopoly under Threat
of Entry", Rand Journal of Economics 17 ( 1986 ), Summer, 261­275
"Majority Rule in Multi­Dimensional Spatial Models", Social Choice and Welfare 7 ( 1990 ), 353­368
"Asymmetric Tax Competition", [abstract]Journal of Urban Economics 30 ( 1991 ), 167­181
( with J. Wilson ) "Tax Competition with Two Tax Instruments", Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 21 ( 1991 ), 333­350
"Choosing Tax Rates and Expenditure Levels using Majority Rule", Journal of Public Economics,
46 ( 1991 ), 113­131
"Factor Ownership, Taxes and Specialization", Canadian Journal of Economics, 26 ( 1993 ), May,
317­336
"Rent Seeking and Tax Competition", Journal of Public Economics, 58 ( 1995 ), July, 337­363
"Insurance and Incentive Effects of Transfers between Regions : Equity and Efficiency", International
Tax and Public Finance, 4 ( 1997 ), December, 463­483
"Federalism, Equalization and Risk Aversion", Journal of Public Economics, 67 ( 1998 ), March,
301­328
( with M. Marchand and P. Pestieau ) "Tax Competition and Revelation of Preferences for Public
Expenditure", Journal of Urban Economics, 44 ( 1998 ), November, 367­390 [ correction, March
1999 ]
"Efficient Migration and Income Tax Competition", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 5 ( 2003 ),
April, 249­278
"The Optimal Majority with an Endogenous Status Quo", Social Choice and Welfare, 21 ( 2003 ),
August, 131­148
"Efficient Migration and Redistribution", Journal of Public Economics, 87 ( 2003 ), November,
2459­2474
"Public Input Competition", Journal of Public Economics, 89, ( 2005 ), September, 1763 ­ 1788
( with Michael Smart ) "The Efficiency Consequences of Local Revenue Equalization : Tax Compe-
tition and Tax Distortions", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8 (2006), January, 119­144
(with Andreas Haufler) "Tax Competition when Firms Choose their Organizational Form : Should
Tax Loopholes for Multinationals be Closed?", Journal of International Economics, forthcoming
(with Andreas Haufler) "Preferential Tax Regimes with Asymmetric Countries", National Tax Jour-
nal, forthcoming

Publications : Other

"Jurisdictional Fragmentation Equalizes Housing Consumption", Economics Letters 5 ( 1980 ), 285­
288
"On the Existence of Local Nash Equilibrium with Price and Quality Competition", Economics
Letters 14 ( 1984 ), 131­136
"On the Effects of Minimum Lot­Size Zoning", Economics Letters 15 ( 1984 ), 189­193
"Housing Tenure Status and Public Policy in a Metropolitan Area", in J. Quigley (editor) : Per-
spectives in Local Public Finance and Public Policy, volume 3, ( 1985 ), JAI Press, 151­180
"Simple Normative Rules Imply Simple Positive Rules", Economics Letters, 38 ( 1992 ), 345­349

Unpublished Papers

"Federal Transfers to Correct for Regional Market Power"
"On Costless Mobility, Identical Agents, and Calculus"
"The Advantages of Regional Disparities"
"Existence of Nash Equilibrium for Tax Competition among a Large Number of Jurisdictions"
"The Politics of Distributive Spending with Increasing Returns ( or The Welfare Economics of Fanne
Foxe )"
( with Amihai Glazer ) "How Rent Seeking Can Promote Efficiency"
"Preventing Public Input Competition"
"A Concentration Index for Capital Tax Competition"
"Honor among Tax Havens"

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