Roy Bahl, Regents Professor and Founding Dean
Founding Dean of the Andrew Young School
Regents Professor of Economics
Professor of Public Administration
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Phone: 404-413-0010
E-mail: rbahl@gsu.edu
Vita (pdf)
Specialties:
State and Local Public Finance
Urban and Regional Economics
Public Finances of Developing Countries
An expert in public finance, Roy Bahl has extensive experience consulting on state and local government issues with public and private agencies, including Standard & Poor's Corp., several city and state governments, and federal agencies. Bahl headed the staffs of the Ohio and Georgia Tax Commissions. He has served on the editorial boards of the National Tax Journal, The Journal of Public Budgeting and Finance, and Growth and Change. He is the author of the book Fiscal Policy in China, and with Johannes Linn, of Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries. He served as principal economic advisor to IBM's Worldwide Tax Practice.
Bahl has consulted on fiscal matters with governments in developing and transition economies all over the world, as well as with the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations and the World Bank. Bahl is the author of numerous books, monographs and scholarly papers in the area of urban/regional economics, public finance and economic development. He came to Georgia State from Syracuse University, where he was the director of the Metropolitan Studies Program and Maxwell Professor of Political Economy.
Recent Publications:
Making the Property Tax Work: Experiences in Developing and Transitional Countries. (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Joan Youngman), editors. (Cambridge: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), 2008.
Tax Policy and Economic Development (with Sally Wallace). (Kingston: Planning Institute of Jamaica), 2007.
“The Structure of PRI Finances in West Bengal”, (with S. Wallace and G. Sethi), Department of Rural Development, State of West Bengal, India, 2008.
“The Pillars of Fiscal Decentralization: Applications to Peru”, Corporacion Andina de Fomento (forthcoming).
“Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward” (with Richard Bird) Public Budgeting and Finance (Winter, 2008).
“Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Public Finance in China: What is New on the Reform Agenda”? in Public Finance and Property Taxation in China, edited by Yu-Hung Hong and Joyce Man (forthcoming).
“Tax Policy and Economic Development: Looking Back-and Forward” (With Richard Bird) National Tax Journal, 2008.
“Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization: A Developing Country Perspective” in Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies ed. By Gregory Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong (Cambridge, Mass: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) 2008.
Chapters in Making the Property Tax Work: Experiences in Developing and Transitional Countries, ed. By Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Joan Youngman. (Cambridge: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) 2008.
Chapter One, “The Property Tax in Practice,” (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Joan Youngman);
Chapter Three, “The Determinants of Revenue Performance,” (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez).
“The Property Tax in Developing Countries: Current Practice and Prospects” (with Jorge Martinez) in Toward a Vision of Land in 2015, edited by James Riddell and Gary Cornia, (Cambridge, Mass: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), 2008.
“Flat Taxes” (with Sally Wallace) Finanzarchiv, Vol. 63 (9), 396-414.
“Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization Reform” (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez), and “Benefits, Costs and Rules of Decentralization” in The Kosovo Decentralization Briefing Book, edited by Robert Ebel and Gábor Péteri (The Open Society Institute, Budapest, 2007).
“Comprehensive Tax Reform in Jamaica” (with Sally Wallace) Public Finance Review, 2007.
“Intergovernmental Transfers: The Vertical Sharing Dimension” (with Sally Wallace) in Fiscal Equalization: Challenges in the Design of Intergovernmental Transfers, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Bob Searle (Eds.), Springer, 2007.
