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Dahlby, Bev

Professor of Economics
Fellow, Institute for Public Economics

PhD, London School of Economics, 1979
MA, Queen's University, 1974
BA (High Honors), University of Saskatchewan, 1973

Email: bev.dahlby@ualberta.ca
Office 9-13B Tory
Phone (780) 492-5437
Fax (780) 492-3300 

Research Interests

Public Finance


Teaching Winter 2010

  • Econ 213: Introductory Economics of Developing Countries
  • Econ 481: Advanced Microeconomic Theory
  • Econ 553: Economics of Taxation

 

Short Biography

Bev Dahlby joined the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta in 1978, after completing his graduate studies at the London School of Economics. His main area of research is tax policy and fiscal federalism. He has served as a policy advisor to the Canadian federal government on the reform of business taxation (the Mintz Committee), on the reform of fiscal equalization, and on the evaluation of tax credits for television and film industry.  His international experience includes advisory work on tax reform in Malawi for the IMF and in Thailand for the Thailand Development Research Institute in Bangkok.  In 2007, he served as the research director of the Financial Investment and Planning Advisory Commission appointed by the Alberta government and in 2008 as an advisor to the World Bank on the reform of the fiscal transfer system in Brazil. He was an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Tax Journal. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association and the National Statistics Council. In 1998-99, he held a McCalla Research Professorship at the University of Alberta.  He was a visiting professor at the Australian Taxation Studies Program, University of New South Wales in August 2002 and at the University of Innsbruck in May 2007.  In 2004 and 2008, Bev Dahlby was on sabbatical at the Graduate School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  He is currently a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto.

Selected Publications (Last Five Years)

Books:

Articles in Refereed Journals:

  • “The Marginal Cost of Public Funds for Excise Taxes in Thailand” eJournal of Tax Research Vol. 5 No. 1, (2006): 135-167. (with Worawan Chandoevwit). http://www.atax.unsw.edu.au/ejtr/
  • "The Marginal Cost of Funds from Public Sector Borrowing”, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 6: No. 1, (2006) Article 1 http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol6/iss1/art1
  • “A Framework for Evaluating Provincial R&D Tax Subsidies” Canadian Public Policy Vol. 31, No. 1(March 2005): 45-58.

 Chapters in Books

  • “Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future” in Seizing Today and Tomorrow: An Investment Strategy for Alberta’s Future, edited by Roger Gibbins and Robert Roach, Canada West Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, 2006, pp.83-93. 
  • “The Chrétien Government's Legacy: A Tax System for the 21st Century? in C.M. Beach and T.A. Wilson (eds.) The 2003 Federal Budget: Conflicting Tensions, John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, (2004). 
  • “Using the Marginal Cost of Public Funds to Evaluate Public Expenditure Programs”  to be published in Handbook of Public Sector Performance Reviews, Volume 4, edited by Anwar Shah, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
  • “What Does the Debt Cost Us?” in C. Ragan and W. Watson (eds.) Is the Debt War Over? Dispatches from Canada's Fiscal Frontline, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal, 2004, pp. 207-234.

Other Publications

Work in Progress

  • “Tax Cuts, Economic Growth, and the Marginal Cost of Public Funds for Canadian Provincial Governments” (with Ergete Ferede). [pdf]
  • "The Marginal Cost of Public Funds and the Flypaper Effect" [pdf]
  • “A Median Voter Model of the Vertical Fiscal Gap” (with J. Rodden and S. Wilson). [pdf]
  • “The Optimal Taxation Approach to Intergovernmental Grants”. [pdf]
  • “Adverse Selection and Risk Aversion in Capital Markets” (with L. Braido and C. da Costa). [pdf]

 

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