TI Fellow Bas Jacobs and TI PhD candidates Aart Gerritsen and Floris Zoutman are organizing the first Tinbergen Institute Workshop on Public Economics. The topic of the workshop is the optimal design of government policy. The workshop brings together a set of high quality papers by Robin Boadway (Queen’s University), Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford University), Laurence Jacquet (THEMA, Paris), and Bas Jacobs (EUR).

The workshop will take place on February 20 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, from 15:00 to 18:30, room C2-1.

Please let the organizing committee know if you are interested to attend this conference by sending an email to Aart Gerritsen, or Floris Zoutman.

Please find a preliminary program attached.