1 Sonia PATY
Faculty of Economics and Management
University of Lyon 2 and GATE-LSE (CNRS UMR 5824) 93 Chemin des mouilles
F-69130 Ecully France
Phone: +33 (0)4 72 86 60 80
e-mail: sonia.paty@univ-lyon2.fr or paty@gate.cnrs.fr Webpage: http://www.gate.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article536
EDUCATION
Habilitation, University of Lille 1 (France), “Strategic interactions and decentralized fiscal choices”, 2006.
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Lille 1, “Essays on tax competition”, 2000, with highest honors.
MSc in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Lille 1 (France), 1996.
BSc in economics, University of Rennes 1 (France) and University College Cork (Ireland), 1994.
CURRENT POSITION
Full Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, University Lumière Lyon 2 (France) since 2011.
Co-head of the research team on “Public policies and spatial economics” (24 permanent researchers and 14 PhD students) in GATE- Lyon St-Etienne (CNRS UMR 5824), since 2012
PAST POSITIONS
Full Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Caen (France), 2008-2011.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Lille 1 (France), 2000- 2008.
Visiting scholar, Social Science Research Division of INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), Dijon (France), 2005-2007.
Teaching assistant, Faculty of Economics and social sciences, University of Lille 1 (France), 1996- 2000.
POSITIONS IN FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS
Visiting professor, Department of Economics, University of Delaware (USA), 2012 (July and August) Visiting scholar, Department of Economics, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), 2008 (April).
Visiting scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal (Canada), 2008 (March).
Visiting scholar, Department of Economics, University of Santiago de Compostella (Spain), 2 short visits in 2007
SCIENTIFIC BOARDS
Member of the scientific board of the Human and Social Sciences Institute in Brittany (MSHB), since 2012
Elected member of the scientific board of research center GATE-LSE, since 2011
Expert for the French agency for research and higher education evaluation (AERES), 2009
Member of the advisory board on Innovation and regional competitiveness, French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE, French Prime Minister), Paris, 2006-2007
2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OR ADVISORY BOARDS
Elected member of the advisory board of education (CEVU), University Lumière Lyon 2, since 2012 Elected member of the administration board of the Faculty of Economics, University of Lyon 2, since 2014
Elected member of the administration board of the Faculty of Economics, University of Lille 1, 2007- 2008
Steering committee member of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Paris, 2005-2008
Member of the recruiting committees at University of Caen (2009-2011), University of Lille 1 (2002- 2006 and 2010), University of Lille 2 (2004-2008), University of Valenciennes (2007-2008).
NETWORK MEMBERSHIP
Canadian federal research program on 'Budget equilibrium and public debt: Regional dimension in North America and international comparisons'. CIRANO, Universities of Montreal and Sherbrooke, 2010-2012.
French/German research project on 'Local budget institutions and fiscal rules effectiveness: a comparative study on European countries', 2008-2011.
Research network of EHESS-CNRS-Universités d’Aix-Marseille II et III (IDEP, Public Economics Institute), since 2007.
CNRS Research network ‘Spatial economics’ (GDR ASPE), 2007-2010.
French research ministry project (Action Concertée Incitative) on 'Economics and Policies of local facilities and multi-governmental structures', University of Paris 1, 2006-2008.
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Public Economics, public finance, political economy, regional economics, applied micro- econometrics, spatial econometrics, local taxation, European integration, new economic geography
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
Member of the Scientific Committee of the annual congress of the French Economic Association, Lyon 2014
Member of the Scientific Committee of the annual SEBA-GATE workshop, Shanghai, 2014
Member of the Scientific Committee of the thematic meeting of the French Economic Association, Saint Etienne, 2012.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Economics and Space workshop, since 2007.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the annual congress of the French Economic Association, Paris, 2007.
Co-organizer of the Workshop Fiscal federalism and New Economic Geography: From theory to Empirics’, Dijon, 2006.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Workshop ‘Regional agglomeration, growth and multilevel governance: The EU in a comparative perspective’, Gent (Belgium), 2005.
Local co-organizer of the European Economic Workshop, Lille, 2005.
Local co-organizer of the Applied Economics annual seminar, Lille, 2004.
Local co-organizer of the French Economic Association seminar, Lille, 2003.
In charge with the Urban and Spatial Economics Seminar, Paris, 1997-2003.
3 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
IEB workshop, Fiscal federalism, Barcelona, 2013
Workshop on "Endogenizing state and government fragmentation", Rennes, 2013 Thematic meeting of the French Economic association, Saint Etienne, 2012.
European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Izmir 2010, Rennes 2011, Miami 2012, Cambridge 2014 Conference ‘Public policies and industrial organization’, Lille 2010
Economics and space workshop, INRA, Rennes 2010
European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Izmir 2010, Rennes 2011, Miami 2012 ANR/DFG seminar, Fribourg (Switzerland) 2009
CREM seminar, Caen 2009
PEARLE seminar, Fribourg (Switzerland) 2006, Rennes (France) 2008, Turino (Italy) 2010 Congress of the European Regional Science Association, Paris, 2007
International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, Rome, 2006 Workshop ‘Local Public Goods, Politics and Economics’, Paris 1, 2006 Annual Congress of Public Economic Theory, Marseille, 2005
Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto 2006, Las Vegas 2005, Chicago 2000.
Workshop ‘Regional agglomeration, growth and multilevel governance: The EU in a comparative perspective’, Gent (Belgium) 2005
Annual congress of International Tax and Public Finance, Milan (Italy) 2004.
Annual seminar of Applied Microeconomics, Fribourg (Switzerland) 2007, Nantes 2006, Hammamet 2005, Lille 2004
French Economic Association congress, Paris 2005 and 2006.
Public Economic Theory conference, Marseille 2005.
Spring School in Economic geography, Paris 2004.
SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS BY INVITATION
Workshop PSE, INRA et ENS « Construire l’Etat à l’échelle locale », Paris, 2014 Workshop Alain Guengant, Rennes, 2013
Seminar RUES (Regional and Urban Economics Seminar), Paris, 2012 GATE-LSE seminar, Lyon 2011 and Saint Etienne 2011
BETA seminar, Nancy (France) 2009
Public Economics Seminar, Ecole normale Cachan, Paris 2010
ANR/DFG seminar, ‘Competitiveness of Nation states’, ZEW, Berlin, 2009 Ecole Normale supérieure (ENS) Lyon (France), 2008
Local fiscal competition workshop, Santiago de Compostella (Spain), 2007 Department of Economics, Santiago de Compostella (Spain), 2007
Public economic seminar, Ecole normale Cachan – Paris 1, 2007 INRA, Seminar, Dijon, 2005
Fiscal federalism workshop, Namur (Belgium), 2004
Fourgeaud seminar, Ministry of Economics and Finance, Paris, 2003 CREW seminar, Namur (Belgium), 2002.
REFEREE
Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Urban Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Public Choice, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Fiscal studies, Urban Public Economics Review, International Regional Science Review, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Spatial economic analysis, Economics of governance, Applied economics, Louvain Economic Review, Regional Studies, Portuguese Economic Journal, Annales d'économie et statistiques, Economie et Prévision, Economie publique, Revue Economique, Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine, Cahiers d’économie et de sociologie rurales, Développement durable et territoires, Région et développement, Travail et emploi.
4 PUBLICATIONS (in refereed journals)
Strategic interactions in public R&D across EU-15 countries : A spatial econometric analysis, with H.
Hammadou and M. Savona, Research Policy, forthcoming, 2014.
Does fiscal cooperation increase local tax rates in urban areas ?, with S. Charlot and V. Piguet, Regional Studies, forthcoming, 2014.
The impact of inter-municipal cooperation on local public spending, avec Q. Frère et M. Leprince, Urban Studies, first published on August 19, 2013 as doi:10.1177/0042098013499080.
Governments under influence: Country interactions in discretionary fiscal policy, with A. Cassette, J.
Creel and E. Farvaque, Economic modelling, 30, 79-89, 2013.
Assessing the impact of local taxation on property prices: A spatial matching contribution, with S.
Charlot and M. Visalli, Applied Economics, 45(9), 1151-1166, 2013.
Range of local public services and population size: Is there a “zoo effect” in French jurisdictions?, with Q. Frère and H. Hammadou, Louvain Economic Review, 77, pp. 87-104, 2011.
Tax interactions among Belgian municipalities: Does interregional differences matter?, with M.
Gérard and H. Jayet, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40(5), pp. 336-342, 2010.
Fiscal Decentralization and the Size of Government: A European Country Empirical Analysis, with A.
Cassette, Public Choice, 143, pp. 173-189, 2010.
The French local tax setting: Do agglomeration forces matter?, with S. Charlot, Urban Studies, 47, pp.
1099-1116, 2010.
Yardstick competition among French cities: Which neighbours matter? with E. Dubois, Annals of Regional Science, 44(3), 433 – 452, 2010.
Tax competition among Eastern and Western Europe: With whom do countries compete? with A.
Cassette, Economic Systems, 32, 2008.
Public spending interactions and local politics: Empirical evidence from French municipalities, with M. Foucault and T. Madiès, Public Choice, 137(1), pp. 57-80, 2008.
Tax competition and New Economic geography, Urban Public Economics Review, 8, pp. 69-83, 2008.
Market access effect and local tax setting: Evidence from a French panel data, with S. Charlot, Journal of Economic Geography, 7(3), pp. 247-263, 2007.
Business tax interactions among local governments: An empirical analysis of the French case, with M.
Leprince and T. Madiès, Journal of Regional Science, 47(3), pp. 603-621, 2007.
The effects of politics on local tax setting: Evidence from France, with E. Dubois and M. Leprince, Urban Studies, 44(8), pp.1603-1618, 2007.
Capital indivisibility and fiscal competition: Are there too many enterprise zones when some of them are empty?, with H. Jayet, Journal of Urban Economics, 60, pp.399-417, 2006.
Horizontal and vertical externalities: An overview of theoretical and empirical studies, with T. Madiès and Y. Rocaboy, Urban Public Economics Review, 2, pp.63-93, 2005.
Tax choices and spatial interactions between public governments: The case of the French counties, with M. Leprince and E. Reulier, Louvain Economic Review, 71(1), pp. 67-93, 2005.
PUBLICATIONS IN FRENCH
Inter-municipality and local taxation, with S. Charlot and V. Piguet, Economie et statistique, 415-416, 2009.
The corporate tax rates in the EU-27? with A. Cassette, Revue Economique, 60, pp. 739-748, 2009.
5 Tax competition and Leviathan, with A. Cassette and H. Jayet, Economie Publique, 18-19, pp. 119- 148, 2007.
Is tax competition more intense in urban or rural areas?, with A. Cassette, Cahiers d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, 78, pp. 5-30, 2006.
Tax interactions and tax choices in French cities, Revue Française d’Economie, 20(3), pp. 87-117, 2006.
Political determinants of local tax choices: The French case, with E. Dubois and M. Leprince, Revue de l’OFCE, 94, pp.317-349, 2005.
Fiscal strategies of local officials: From theory to reality, with T. Madiès and Y. Rocaboy, Revue de l’OFCE, 94, pp.283-315, 2005.
Horizontal and vertical fiscal externalities, with T. Madiès and Y. Rocaboy, Revue d’Economie Politique, 115(1), pp.1-47, 2005.
Are there any tax interactions between municipalities ?, with H. Jayet and A. Pentel, Economie et Prévision, 154, pp.95-105, 2002.
Taxation and internalization of capital externalities, with H. Jayet, Revue d'Economie Régionale et Urbaine, 4, pp.785-800, 1999.
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
La coopération intercommunale en Europe: A la recherche du design institutionnel optimal, with Q.
Frère, collection Libre cours, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2013, à paraître.
Fiscal externalities, in M. Mignolet (éd.), Le fédéralisme fiscal : Leçons de la théorie économique et expérience des quatre Etats fédéraux, Bruxelles, De Boeck Université, 2005.
Fiscal decentralization and capital attraction, with Hubert Jayet, in G. Cliquet and J.M. Josselin (éds.), Stratégies de localisation des entreprises commerciales et industrielles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002.
Tax competition models and public politics, with T. Madiès, in C. Baumont et al. (éds.), Economie géographique : modèles théoriques et empiriques, Economica, 2000.
Are there too many enterprise zones?, with Hubert Jayet, in Comment améliorer la performance économique des territoires ?, 3èmes entretiens de la Caisse des dépôts et Consignations, Société des acteurs publics, 2000.
Economy of the democracy, with E. Farvaque, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2009.
Fiscal revenues, agrégation de sciences économiques et sociales, Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance (CNED), 110 pages, 2007.
WORKING PAPERS / WORK IN PROGRESS
Why do local governments cooperate to deliver public services, avec E. Di Porto et V. Merlin, Working Paper Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), 2013.
The impact of inter-municipal cooperation on local public spending, avec Q. Frère et M. Leprince, Working paper 1225, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), 2012.
Strategic interactions in public R&D across EU-15 countries: A spatial econometric analysis, avec H.
Hammadou and M. Savona, LEM Working Paper, 2012/14, Working Papers Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), 2012/23.
Does fiscal cooperation increase local tax rates in urban areas, avec S. Charlot et V. Piguet, Working Papers 201202, Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory (GAEL) et Working Papers 1219, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE).
6 Assessing the impact of local taxation on property prices: a spatial matching contribution, with S.
Charlot and M. Visalli, Working Papers 201106, Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory (GAEL).
Is there a "zoo effect" in French local governments?, with Q. Frère and H. Hammadou, INRA UMR CESAER Working Papers 2011/1, INRA UMR CESAER, Centre d’Economie et Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux.
Does fiscal cooperation increase local tax rates ?, with S. Charlot and V. Piguet, INRA UMR CESAER Working Papers 2010/1, INRA UMR CESAER, Centre d’Economie et Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux.
Governments under influence: Country interactions in discretionary fiscal policy, with A. Cassette, J.
Creel and E. Farvaque, Documents de Travail de l'OFCE 2010-25, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE).
Tax Interactions among Belgian Municipalities: Does Language Matter?, with M. Gérard and H. Jayet, CESifo Working Paper Series 2558, 2009, CESifo Group Munich.
Intercommunalité et fiscalité directe locale / Municipal cooperation and local taxation, with S. Charlot and V. Piguet, INRA UMR CESAER Working Papers 2008/2, INRA UMR CESAER, Centre d’Economie et Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux.
Assessing the impact of local taxation on property prices: a spatial matching contribution / Evaluer l'impact de la fiscalité locale sur les prix immobiliers : une contribution de l'appariement spatial," with S. Charlot and M. Visalli, INRA UMR CESAER Working Papers 2008/3, INRA UMR CESAER, Centre d’Economie et Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux.
Taxable Agglomeration Rent: Evidence From A Panel Data, with S. Charlot, INRA UMR CESAER Working Papers 2006/1, INRA UMR CESAER, Centre d’Economie et Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux.
Public spending and strategic interactions among Canadian provinces: An analysis by function, with M. Foucault and A. Blais.
A Note on Tax Competition and Leviathan, with A. Cassette and H. Jayet, Proceedings of 2006 International Conference, Harbin Institute of Technology Press, pp. 2326-2330, 2006.
CONTRACTS AND EXPERTISE
Regional taxation, Report for the French Northern region (Nord Pas de Calais), 2009-2010.
Public R&D expenditures: Do European countries imitate each other?, Report for the French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE, French Prime Minister), 2007.
Tax interactions between local public governments, Report for the French Ministry of Economics and Finance, supervised by T. Madiès, 2004.
Is there any mimic behaviour in local tax choices?, Report for the French Ministry of Economics and Finance, supervised by T. Madiès, 2003.
Spatial behavior in office investment: The case of Lille, Report for the CDC (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations), 2003.
Ph.D SUPERVISION
Tax competition and fiscal cooperation, Z. Abidi, University of Caen, since 2012.
Inter-municipal cooperation and supply of local public goods, Q. Frere, INRA, Dijon, 2009-2012.
Tax competition, public goods supply and economic integration', A. Cassette, University of Lille 1, 2004-2007.
7 MEMBER OF Ph.D COMMITTEES
Evaluation des politiques publiques, L. Baumstark, HDR de l’Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2014.
Economie et Finances publiques, B. Le Maux, HDR de l’Université de Rennes 1, 2013.
Contraintes financières, comportement des entreprises et économie du vote : contributions et perspectives, J. Héricourt, HDR Paris 1, 2012.
Environnement économique et élections : Une étude des déterminants du vote appliquée aux élections municipales françaises, N. Jean, PhD of the University of Lille 1, 2012.
Capitalization of local fiscal variables into house prices: Theory and new empirical evidences, S.
Billon, University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and University of Rennes 1 (France), 2011 Endogenous economic policies, G. Lagadec, Habilitation of University of Lille 1, 2011.
International migration and consequences, C. Drapier, Habilitation of University of Lille 2, 2011.
Social policies in the European Union after the eastward enlargement, Sönke Maatsch, University of Bremen (Germany), 2010.
Economic integration, imperfect competition and tax competition, N. Exbrayat, University of St- Etienne (France), 2008.
Assessment of politics for rural development, P. Lofredi, University of Bourgogne (France), 2007.
Social urban structures and ecological cities, M. Tivadar, University of Lille 1, 2006.
TEACHING
Spatial economics (in English), graduate, University of Lyon 2, since 2012
Urban and regional Economics (in English), graduate, University of Caen, 2008-2011.
European Taxation (in English), graduate, University of Lille 1, 2007-2010.
Local taxation, University of Lille 1, graduate, 2004-2007.
Local Public Economics, graduate, University of Cergy-Pontoise, 2003.
Political Economy, undergraduate, University of Caen, since 2008.
Public Finance, graduate, University of Caen, 2009-2011.
Microeconomics, graduate and undergraduate, University of Lille 1, 1996-2005 and University of Lyon 2, since 2011.
Public Economics, graduate, University of Lille 1, 2007 and undergraduate, University of Lyon 2, since 2011.
Urban Economics, graduate, University of Paris 1, 2001-2003.
European Economy, undergraduate, University of Caen, since 2008.
Game theory, graduate and undergraduate, Universities of Lille 1 and Caen, 2004-2011.
Economic Analysis, undergraduate, University of Lille 1, 2000-2005.
Statistics, undergraduate, University of Caen, 2009-2011.
Econometrics, undergraduate, University of Lille 1, 1996-2000.
Internship supervisions, graduate, Universities of Lille 1 and Caen, since 2000.
LANGUAGES French: native speaker English: fluent
German: basic
PERSONAL INFORMATIONS Born: April 23, 1973, in Rennes (France) Citizenship: French
One child (born November 8, 2011)
