Mario Jametti
Assistant Professor Università della Svizzera italiana Istituto MecoP Via Giuseppe Buffi 13 6904 Lugano Switzerland e-mail: mario.jametti@lu.unisi.ch
Teaching PhD Microeconomics Career and Studies (CV) Ph.D., University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2000-2004) MA, McMaster University, Canada (1995-1996) Licence en économie politique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (1992-1995) Academic Positions held Assistant Professor, MecoP Institute, University of Lugano, Switzerland (2008-). Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, York University, Canada (2006-). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McMaster University, Canada. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2004-2006) Lecturer, Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua (1999-2000) Lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias Comerciales, Universidad de Santiago, Chile (1998) Publications Risk Selection in Natural Disaster Insurance - the Case of France (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg). Accepted for publication at Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance – An Overview of Theory and Evidence. Canadian Public Policy 34(s1): 39-46, 2008. "Vertical Versus Horizontal Tax Competition: An Empirical Test" (with Marius Brülhart). Journal of Public Economics 90(10-11): 2027-2062, 2006. "Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider - a measurement error approach" (with Thomas von Ungern - Sternberg), The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (formerly Geneva Papers) 30:15-34, 2005 Research (papers available in pdf format) Hurricane Insurance in Florida (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg). Revise and resubmit to Journal of Insurance Regulation. Pension Benefit Insurance and Pension Plan Portfolio Choice (with Thomas Crossley). CESifo Working Paper #2498, York University Economics Working Paper #2008-05. Revise and resubmit to Review of Economics and Statistics. Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials? (with Marius Brülhart and Kurt Schmidheiny). York University Economics Working Paper 2007-09, Cahiers de Recherche DEEP N°07.13, CEPR Discussion Paper 6606. Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan? (with Marius Brülhart). Revise and resubmit to Journal of Political Economy. Die Übernahme von Denner durch Migros verstösst gegen das Kartellgesetz (with Thomas von Ungern). Cahiers de Recherche DEEP N°07.02. "Disaster Insurance or a Disastrous Insurance - Natural Disaster Insurance in France" (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg). CESifo Working Paper #1303, Cahiers de Recherche DEEP N°04.12, McMaster Economics Working Paper 2004-13 "Der Bericht der Expertengruppe: 'Reform der Währungsordnung' - Eine kritische Würdigung" (with Thomas von Ungern - Sternberg), Cahiers de Recherche DEEP N°01.06 Journalism Tax competition tames big government featured in www.voxeu.org on November 2, 2007. Thomas’ and my piece on the acquisition of the number 3 retailer by the number 1 in Switzerland (in French). It appeared in Le Temps on April 23, 2007. Unfortunately to no avail. The Swiss competition authority approved the merger under some very lax and unenforceable conditions. Personal · Interlaken, Switzerland, try Rugenbräu at Buddy's and sleep here. · Playa el Coco, Nicaragua, (if you want to get a good Apfelstrudel on a sandy beach). · Two reasons to like Toronto: Paupers and the Blue Jays.