John Deutsch Institute
October 2-3, 2008
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| 17:30 - 18:30 Registration and
Reception
18:30 Welcome and Dinner
Opening Remarks
"Overview of the Issues in the
Determination of the Economic Discount Rate"
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| 08:00 - 08:30 Registration -- Continental
Breakfast
08:30 - 10:00 Session I: Discount Rates for
PPP: Overview of Theory and Practice
"PPPs, the Public Sector Comparator, and Discount Rates: Key Issues"
"Time
Preference, the Cost of Capital and PPPs" 10:00 - 10:30 Health Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session II: Theoretical
Approaches to the Discounting of Benefits and Costs
"Removing Some Dissonance from the Social Discount Rate Debate"
"The
New (but Old) Approach to the
Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital"
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:45 Session III: Estimation of
Discount Rates in Canada
"Social
Discount Rates for Canada"
"Risk-Adjusted Discount Rates for
Public Sector Investments"
"The
Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital
for Canada -- An Empirical Update" 14:45 - 15:00 Health Break
15:00 - 16:30 Session IV: Roundtable Discussion:
The Path to Best Practice
Arnold Harberger (University of California, Los Angeles) Glenn Jenkins (Queen's University and Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus) Christopher Shugart (Private Consultant, United Kingdom)
Michael Spackman (NERA Economic Consulting,
London, United Kingdom)
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Conference Information
Conference to be held in Dunning Hall, Hand-Purvis
Conference Room, Second Floor, Queen's University (which is at the
corner of University and Union Streets).
Conference registration fee is $200.00*, plus GST, payable to the John Deutsch Institute (GST Registration #R107868705). Registration is limited so please register early.
*A special rate will apply for academics.
Please make cheque payable to the John Deutsch Institute and mail to: Sharon Sullivan, John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University, Dunning Hall, Room 216, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6. Payment by cheque only, please.
Accommodation
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Kingston
Waterfront, 2 Princess Street, for the night of Thursday, October 2 at
a special conference rate of $155.00 per night,
plus taxes. A few rooms are block booked for Friday, October 3 at a
rate of $175.00 per night, plus taxes. Reservations can be made directly
by calling the
Holiday Inn
at 1-800-465-4329 or 1-613-549-8400, ext. 2660 and say that you are
booking under
the Block of Rooms "John Deutsch Institute Conference".
The block of rooms will be available until September 12th, so
please
book your room as soon as possible.
Conference
Organizers
Glenn Jenkins, Department of Economics, Queen's University
e-mail: gpjenkins@usa.net
Phone: (519) 661-3500
e-mail: dburgess@uwo.ca
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Registration
*** Click HERE to
register online. ***
For further information please contact Sharon
Sullivan.
Phone: (613) 533-2294;
Fax: (613) 533-6025
E-mail: sullivas@econ.queensu.ca