Stanley L. Winer

– B.A. Economics & Mathematics (Carleton University)
– M.A. Economics (Johns Hopkins University)
– Ph.D. Economics (Johns Hopkins University)

Teaching Concentrations: Political economy, public sector economics, microeconomics
Course Taught: Microeconomics, Cost-benefit analysis, political economy of public finance

Professor Winer is a Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy Emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Economics at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research lies at the intersection of economics and political science, including work on the formation and evolution of tax systems such as Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Cambridge University Press 1999 (with W. Hettich). A recent project focuses on the measurement and consequences of variation in political competitiveness in Canada, the United States and India. He continues to study the connection between migration and public policy: his recent book on Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2012 (with K. Day) was awarded the Purvis Prize for 2013 from the Canadian Economics Association. His latest co-edited book is Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic and Political Dimensions, Cambridge University Press 2014. This work contributes to the Wicksellian approach to public finance. He has published widely in leading academic journals. For papers and further information about Professor Winer’s research, please see his website.

Professor Winer has been a visiting professor or visiting research fellow at universities in Canada, the United States, Australia, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan. During the fall of 2003 he was the Fulbright-Canada Visiting Chair at Duke University. In 2013 he was the visiting Canadian lecturer in India for the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Professor Winer was executive vice-president of the International Institute of Public Finance, 2002 – 2005. From 2000 to 2010, Professor Winer was the Chair of the editorial board of the Carleton Library Series. He is also a research associate of the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Professor Winer holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

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• Toke S. Aidt, Stanley L Winer, and Peng Zhang “Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the UK 1820-1913: a new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis“. Cliometrica. (2021).
• Stanley Winer, Stephen Ferris, Bharatee Dash and Pinaki Chakraborty “Political Competition and the Private-Public Structure of Public Expenditure: A Model and Empirics for the Indian States“. International Tax and Public Finance. Springer Link . (January 2021).
• Bharatee Bhusana Dash, J. Stephen Ferris, Stanley L. Winer. “The Measurement of Electoral Competition, With Application to Indian States”. Electoral Studies. Elsevier. 60 (December 2019)
• Stanley L. Winer & Haizhen Mou “Fiscal Incidence When Both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home-care for the Elderly” Public Finance Review. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, 43(3): pp.373-401 (May 2015)
• Stanley L.Winer, Paloa Profeta and Simona Scabrosetti “Wealth Transfer Taxation: An Empirical Investigation“. International Tax and Public Finance. Boston: Springer US. 21(4): pp720-767 (August 2014)
• Winer, Stanley L, Lawrence W Kenny, and Bernard Grofman. “Explaining Variation in the Competitiveness of U.S. Senate Elections, 1922–2004.” Public choice. Boston: Springer 161(3/4): pp. 471–497 ( December 2014)
• Bernard, Sophie, Louis Hotte, and Stanley L Winer. “Democracy, Inequality and the Environment When Citizens Can Mitigate Health Consequences of Pollution Privately or Act Collectively.” European Journal of Political Economy. Elsevier B.V. 34: pp. 142–156 (June 2014)
• Ferris, J Stephen, Stanley L Winer, and Bernard Grofman. “Do Departures from Democratic Accountability Compromise the Stability of Public Finances? Keynesianism, Central Banking, and Minority Governments in the Canadian System of Party Government, 1867–2009.” Constitutional political economy. Boston: Springer US. 23(3): pp.213-243 (September 2012)
• Hotte, Louis, and Stanley L Winer. “Environmental Regulation and Trade Openness in the Presence of Private Mitigation.” Journal of development economics. Elsevier B.V. 97(1): pp.46-57 (2012)
• Davies, James B, and Stanley L Winer. “Closing the 49th Parallel: An Unexplored Episode in Canadian Economic and Political History” Canadian Public Policy. Guelph: University of Toronto Press. 37(3): pp.307-336 (September 2011)
• Winer, Stanley L, George Warskett, and Walter Hettich. “Consumption Versus Income Taxation: Three Moments in the Political Economy of Fiscal Choice.” Public finance and management.
  Harrisburg: Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc. 9(3): pp.311 (June 2009) ISSN: 1523-9721
• Ferris, J Stephen, Soo-Bin Park, and Stanley L Winer. “Studying the Role of Political Competition in the Evolution of Government Size over Long Horizons.” Public choice. Boston: Springer. 137(1/2): pp.369-401 (October 2008)
• Winer, Stanley L, and J. Stephen Ferris. “Searching for Keynesianism.” European Journal of Political Economy. Elsevier B.V. 24(2): pp.294-316 (2008)
• Winer, Stanley L. et al. “Is It Economics or Politics? Trending Economic Factors and the Structure of Congress in the Growth of Government, 1930-2002” Ottawa: Carleton University, Dept.of Economics (June 2006)
• Ferris, J. Stephen, and Stanley L. Winer. “Just How Much Bigger Is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929-2004.” Canadian Public Policy Guelph:University of Toronto Press. 33(2): pp.173–206 (June 2007)
• Day, Kathleen M, and Stanley Winer “Internal Migration and Public Policy in Canada: An Empirical Study”. International Tax and Public Finance Montreal: MQUP. 13: pp.535-564 (Sept. 2006)
• Hettich, Walter, and Stanley L Winer. “Analyzing the Interdependence of Regulation and Taxation.” Public finance review. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 34(4): pp. 355–380 (July 2006)
• Kenny, Lawrence W, and Stanley L Winer. “Tax Systems in the World: An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Administration Costs, Scale and Political Regime.” International tax and public finance. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers 13(2): pp.181-215 (May 2006) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-006-3564-7
• Tridimas, George, and Stanley L Winer. “The Political Economy of Government Size.” European Journal of Political Economy. Elsevier B.V.  21(3): pp. 643–666 (2005)
• Islam, Muhammed N, and Stanley L Winer. “Tinpots, Totalitarians (and Democrats): An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Economic Growth on Civil Liberties and Political Rights.” Public choice. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 118(3/4): pp.289–323 (2004)
• Hotte, Louis., and Stanley L. Winer. ”Political Influence, Economic Interests and Endogenous Tax Structure in a Computable Equilibrium Framework : with Application to the United States, 1973 and 1983” Ottawa, Ont: Dept. of Economics, Carleton University (200)
• Warskett, George, Stanley L Winer, and Walter Hettich. “The Complexity of Tax Structure in Competitive Political Systems.” International tax and public finance. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 5(2): pp.123-151 (May 1998)
• Hettich, Walter, and Stanley L Winer. “Decision Externalities, Economic Efficiency and Institutional Response.” Canadian public policy. Downsview, Ont: University of Toronto Press. 21(3): pp. 344-361 (September 1995)
• Hettich, Walter., and Stanley L. Winer. “Economic Efficiency, Political Institutions and Policy Analysis” Ottawa: Dept. of Economics, Carleton U., (1991)
• Swimmer, Gene, and Stanley L Winer. “Dispute Resolution and Self-Selection : An Empirical Examination of the Federal Public Sector, 1971-1982.” Relations industrielles (Québec, Québec) Quebec: Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval. 48(1): pp.146-162 (1993)
• Winer, Stanley L, and Walter Hettich. “Debt and Tariffs: An Empirical Investigation of the Evolution of Revenue Systems.” Journal of public economics. Elsevier B.V. 45(2): pp. 215–242 (1991)
• Hettich, Walter., and Stanley L. Winer. “Economic and Political Foundations of Tax Structure”. Ottawa: Carleton U., 1986. Reprinted in James Alm (ed.). The Economics of Taxation, Volume I. Edward Elgar, 2011, 325-338. Reprinted in James Alm and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez (eds.). Tax Reform in Developing Countries, Volume II. Edward Elgar, 2015, 608-619.
• Hettich, Walter, and Stanley L Winer. “Federalism, Special Interests and the Exchange of Policies for Political Resources.” European Journal of Political Economy. Elsevier B.V. 3(1): pp. 33–54 (1987)
• “Money and Politics in a Small Open Economy,” Public Choice. Leiden: Springer Nature B.V 51(2): pp. 221-239 (1986)
• Winer, Stanley L. “The Role of Exchange Rate Flexibility in the International Transmission of Inflation in Long and Shorter Runs: Canada, 1953 to 1981.” The Canadian journal of economics. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. 19(1): pp. 62-86 (1986)
• Hettich, Walter, and Stanley Winer. “Vertical Imbalance in the Fiscal Systems of Federal States.” The Canadian journal of economics. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. 19(4): pp. 745–765 (November 1986)
• Walter Hettich, and Stanley Winer. “Blueprints And Pathways: The Shifting Foundations Of Tax Reform:.” National tax journal. Chicago, Ill: National Tax Association. 38(4): pp. 423–445 (December 1985) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/NTJ41792105 Reprinted in P. White (ed.), The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, Tax Law Volume II, Dartmouth Publishing Co. 1995, 3-26.
• Hettich, Walter, and Stanley Winer. “A Positive Model of Tax Structure.” Journal of public economics. Elsevier B.V. 24(1): pp. 67–87 (1984) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2727(84)90005-7 Reprinted in Wallace Oates (ed.). The Economics of Federalism and Local Finance. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1998.
• Winer, Stanley. “A Comment on the Papers by Thomas Courchene and Albert Breton.” Public choice. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 44(1): pp. 273–278 (January 1984)
• Winer, Stanley L. “Some Evidence on the Effect of the Separation of Spending and Taxing Decisions.” The Journal of political economy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 91(1): pp. 126-140 (1983) Reprinted in Problemi di Administrazione Publica, 9, Formez, Naples, 1984, 93-118.
• West, E. G, and Stanley L Winer. “Optimal Fiscal Illusion and the Size of Government.” Public choice. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 35(5): pp. 607–622 (1980); Reprinted as “La ilusión fiscal óptima y tamaño del sector público”. Hacienda Pública Española. 1988. 276-286
• West, E. G, and S. L Winer. “Will Federal Centralization Help the Poor?” Canadian public policy. Downsview, Ont: University of Toronto Press. 6(4): pp. 662–667 (October 1980)
• West, Edwin G, and Stanley L Winer. “The Individual, Political Tension, and Canada’s Quest for a New Constitution.” Canadian public policy. Downsview, Ont: University of Toronto Press. 6(1): pp. 3–15 (January 1980)
• Winer, Stanley L. “Short-Run Monetary-Fiscal Influences in a Federal State: With Application to the Canadian Economy, 1947 to 1973.” Public finance quarterly. Sage Publications, Inc. 7(4): pp. 395–424. (October 1979)
• Sheikh, M. A, and S. L Winer. “Stabilization and Nonfederal Behaviour in an Open Federal State: An Econometric Study of the Fixed Exchange Rate, Canadian Case.” Empirical economics. Springer. 2(3): pp. 195–21 (September 1977)
• Lithwick, N.H, and Stanley L Winer. “Faltering Federalism and French Canadians.” Journal of Canadian studies. Peterborough, Ont: University of Toronto Press. 12(3): pp. 44–52 (1977)

• Carleton Colleagues Mourn Loss of Celebrated Economist Gilles Paquet (Jan 2019)
• Lively Debate at Author Meets Readers (Feb 2015)
• Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance (Jan 2015)
• Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada (Feb 2012)