Born
November 29, 1947, Toronto, Canada Current Positions
Canada Research Chair Professor in Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Administration and Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2001-.
Past Positions
Lecturer in Political Economy, Policy Studies Program, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April-May 2002; Cross Appointment, Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, 1999 — Visiting Research Fellow, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 1997-2000; Lecturer in Taxation, Ministry of Finance, Hanoi, August 1999, November 1999, May 2000, July 2000, May 2001; Visiting Professor, Departement de sciences economiques and Centre de recherche et developpement en economique, University of Montreal, Fall 1996; Visiting Fellow, Director’s Section, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, May — August 1996; Lecturer in Microeconomics, Local Government Program, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Fall 1990; Lecturer in Microeconomics and cost-benefit Analysis, Institute of Public Administration, Renmin University, Beijing, Summer 1990; Professor, School of Public Administration, Carleton University, 1988-2001; Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982-1983; Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, 1981-1988; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University, 1976-1978; Research Economist, Economic Council of Canada, 1975-1976.
Degrees
B.A., Carleton University 1971; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1973, 1975.
Offices and Honors
Carleton University Stitt and Linch Scholarships 1967 and 1969.
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1972-1975.
Merit Award, Carleton University, 1981.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (of Canada) Leave Fellowship,1982-1983.
Scholarly Achievement Award, Carleton University, 1985.
Scholarly Achievement Award, Carleton University, 1986.
Supervisor, Doctoral Program in Public Policy, School of Public Administration, 1991-1996. Research Achievement Award, Carleton University, 1998-1999.
Canada Research Chair, Tier I, July 2001.
Member, Canada Research Chairs College of Reviewers, 2001-.
Elected Executive Vice-President, International Institute of Public Finance, 2002-2005.
Editorial Duties
Editorial Board, Carleton Library Series (McGill-Queens University Press), 2000-2003; Guest Editor, International Tax and Public Finance volume 9(4), August 2002; Chair of scientific committee, 57th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Linz, Austria, August 27-30, 2001.
Principal Fields of Interest
Public Economics, Collective Choice; Applied Microeconomics; Applied Econometrics.
Selected Publications
Books
1. Internal Migration and Fiscal Structure: An Econometric Study of the Determinants of Inter-Provincial Migration in Canada (Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada, 1982) (with Denis Gauthier).
2. Knocking on the Back Door: Canadian Perspectives on the Political Economy of Freer Trade with the United States. (Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1987) (edited, with Allan Maslove).
3. Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1999) (with Walter Hettich).
4. Political Economy in Federal States: Selected Essays of Stanley L. Winer (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
5. Political Economy and Public Finance: The Role of Political Economy in the Theory and Practice of Public Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002) (edited, with Hirofumi Shibata).
Articles
1. "Optimal fiscal illusion and the size of government." Public Choice, 35:1980 (with E.G. West).
2. "Some evidence on the effect of the separation of spending and taxing decisions." Journal of Political Economy, 9 (February):1983.
3. "A positive model of tax structure." Journal of Public Economics, 24:1984 (with Walter Hettich).
4. "Money and politics in a small open economy." Public Choice, 51:1986.
5. "The role of exchange rate flexibility in the international transmission of inflation in long and shorter runs: Canada 1953 to 1981." Canadian Journal of Economics, 19:1986.
6. "Economic and political foundations of tax structure." American Economic Review, 78 (September): 1988 (with Walter Hettich).
7. "Debt and tariffs: an empirical investigation of the evolution of revenue systems." Journal of Public Economics, 45:1991 (with Walter Hettich).
8. "The complexity of tax structure in competitive political systems." International Tax and Public Finance, 5: 1998 (with George Warskett and Walter Hettich).
9. "Political influence, economic interests and endogenous tax structure in a computable equilibrium framework: with application to the united states, 1973 and 1983." Public Choice 109(1):2001 (with Louis Hotte).
10. "Tinpots, totalitarians (and democrats): an empirical investigation of the effects of economic growth on civil liberties and political rights." Public Choice, forthcoming 2003 (with Muhammed Islam).
Principal Contributions
Stanley Winer’s early work is on the econometrics of macroeconomic policy in small, open federal economies under alternative exchange regimes. This led to research on the role of the exchange rate in the transmission of inflation from the United States to Canada, and on the role of the exchange regime in determining the link between monetary growth and politics in Canada. In other work, a long-standing interest in the political economy of federalism led him to study policy-induced internal migration, and the effects of intergovernmental grants. The latter research involved one of the first empirical applications of the median voter model in Canada. During the early 1980′s, Winer began to work with Walter Hettich developing models of fiscal systems as a whole. Irwin Gillespie was also working on related matters at Carleton. They began to move away from the median voter model in order to deal with the complexity of actual fiscal structures. A longstanding and still ongoing collaboration with Hettich lead to a systematic treatment of the major positive and normative aspects of tax systems based on probabilistic voting, work that culminated in their 1999 book Democratic Choice and Taxation. This included computable general equilibrium applications developed with Thomas Rutherford. Most recently, Democratic Choice and Taxation has provided the basis for joint work with Stephen Ferris on time series models of the evolution of permanent and transitory components of fiscal systems, and for research with Lawrence Kenny on the pattern of tax systems in the world as a whole.
