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HARRY KITCHEN

Professor

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office: GCS 340
Phone 705.748.1011 x.7220
Email: hkitchen@trentu.ca

Office Hours: N/A

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Canadian taxation and public policy issues.
Local government revenues, expenditures and structure.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books:

  1. Financing Education and Training in Canada, Second Edition, co-authored with Douglas Auld, Canadian Tax Foundation, Toronto, 2006.
  2. Municipal Revenue and Expenditure Issues in Canada, Canadian Tax Foundation, Toronto, 2002.
  3. Canadian Tax Policy, Third Edition, co-authored with Robin Boadway, Canadian Tax Foundation, Toronto, 1999.

Articles, Papers, and Chapters in Books

  1. "Tax and Spend: Improving the efficiency and accountability of taxation in HRM," completed for the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (Halifax), February, 2008, 32 pages – available at www.aims.ca
  2. "Financing Public Transit and Transportation in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton: Future Initiatives," completed for the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (Toronto), January 2008, 75 pages - available at www.rccao.com
  3. "Financing Water and Sewer Systems in the GTA: What Should Be Done?" a report prepared for the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario, July 2007, available at www.rccao.com
  4. "Restructuring the Canadian Federation: Lessons for Other Countries," co-authored with Robin Boadway and Jean-Francois Tremblay, a paper prepared for the International Collaboration Projects Conference organized by the Economic and Social Research Institute (Cabinet Office, Japan) and available on their website, Tokyo, Japan, March 12, 2007.
  5. "A State of Disrepair: How to Fix the Financing of Municipal Infrastructure in Canada," Commentary C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, December 2006, 22 pages, available at http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/commentary_241.pdf
  6. "Municipal Infrastructure Financing: A Prescription for the Future," a paper prepared for Infrastructure Canada, Ottawa, February 2006 - available at http://www.trentu.ca/economics/WorkingPaper/Kitchen_060206.pdf
  7. "International Experience with Municipal Reform," in Monitoring of the Implementation of Municipal Reform, Consortium for Economic Policy Research and Advice (Moscow, 2006), ch. 5, pp. 324-374.
  8. "International Experience with Delivering Municipal Services," in Monitoring of the Implementation of Municipal Reform, Consortium for Economic Policy Research and Advice (Moscow, 2006), ch. 6, pp. 375-423.
  9. "Providing Public Services in Remote Areas" (co-authored with Enid Slack), in Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism, edited by Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt, World Bank Institute (Washington, D.C.; 2006), ch. 7, pp. 123-140.
  10. "Local Government Enterprises," in Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism, edited by Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt, World Bank Institute (Washington, D.C.; 2006), ch. 8, pp. 141-174.
  11. "Grants to smaller Urban Areas," in The Theory and Practice of Intergovernmental Grants, edited by Robin Boadway and Anwar Shah, the World Bank Institute, (Washington, D.C., 2006), ch. 17. pp. 483-510.
  12. "Property Taxation: Issues in Implementation," a paper prepared for the Consortium for Economic Policy Research and Advice (CEPRA), Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, March 2005, 37 pages, available at www.iigr.ca/iigr.php/site/publication_detail?publication=361
  13. "Local Taxation in Selected Countries: A Comparative Examination," in Problems of Reforming Local Self-Governance, edited by N. Glavatskaya, K. Mezentseva, and S. Serianova, (Moscow: Consortium for Economic Policy Research and Advice, 2005), ch. 10, pp. 322-364.
  14. "Property Taxation: Issues in Implementation," in Problems of Reforming Local Self-Governance, edited by N. Glavatskaya, K. Mezentseva, and S. Serianova, (Moscow: Consortium for Economic Policy Research and Advice, 2005), ch. 12, pp. 387-420.
  15. "Local and Metropolitan Finance," in Local Public Finance and Governance, edited by Anwar Shah and Chunli Shen, (Washington: D.C., published for the World Bank by CITIC Publishing House, 2005), pp. 134-175.
  16. "Financing Local Government Capital Investment," in Local Public Finance and Governance, edited by Anwar Shah and Chunli Shen, (Washington: D.C., published for the World Bank by CITIC Publishing House, 2005), pp. 296-326.
  17. "Delivering Local/Municipal Services," in Local Public Finance and Governance, edited by Anwar Shah and Chunli Shen, (Washington: D.C., published for the World Bank by CITIC Publishing House, 2005), pp. 338-369.
  18. "Delivering Local/Municipal Services" in Public Services Delivery, edited by Anwar Shah, (Washington: D.C. The World Bank, 2005), chapter 5, pp. 117-152.
  19. "Local Taxation in Selected Countries: A Comparative Examination," a paper prepared for the Consortium for Economic Policy Research and Advice (CEPRA), Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, December, 2004, 45 pages, available at www.iigr.ca/iigr.php/site/publication_detail?publication=347
  20. ."Financing City Services: A Prescription for the Future," a paper in the AIMS 'Urban Future Series,' Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, September 2004, (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 48 pages, available at www.aims.ca
  21. "Financing Canadian Cities in the Future?" a paper prepared for the City Futures Conference, Chicago, May 21, 2004, 18 pages, available at www.uic.edu/cuppa/cityfutures/program.html#papers
  22. "Special Study: New Finance Options for Municipal Governments," Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 51, No. 6, 2003, pp. 2215-2275 (co-authored with Enid Slack).
  23. "Physical Infrastructure and Financing," research paper 44 for the Panel on the Role of government in Ontario, available at http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/investing/index.htm, December 4, 2003, 93 pages.
  24. "Financing Cities and Fiscal Sustainability," in Paying for Cities: The Search for Sustainable Municipal Revenues, edited by Paul Boothe, (Edmonton: Institute for Public Economics, University of Alberta, 2003) pp. 19-36.
  25. "Municipalities: Status and Responsibilities, Budgeting and Accounting," in Analysis of Revenues and Expenses of Local Budgets, edited by N. Glavatskaya, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow, Russia, 2003, at 146-172.
  26. "Canadian Municipalities: Fiscal Trends and Sustainability," Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2002, pp. 156-180.
  27. "Municipal Finance in a New Fiscal Environment," Commentary in the Urban Paper Series, C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, November 2000, 24 pages.
  28. "Provinces and Municipalities, Universities, Schools and Hospitals: Recent Trends and Funding Issues" in Canada: The State of the Federation 1999/2000, edited by Harvey Lazar, McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, 2000, pp. 295-336

Publications Forthcoming

  1. Local Public Economics, a book that will be co-authored with Anwar Shah and Mel McMillan, 2008.