Fiscal Relations and Fiscal Conditions conference
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

The Department of Economics and the Fiscal Research Center are sponsoring a "Fiscal Relations and Fiscal Conditions" conference April 20-21, 2006, at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

The first day of this two-day conference features several academic papers that address intergovernmental fiscal relations. The second day focuses on the fiscal conditions of state and municipal governments and will address recent trends and their causes.

The conference will meet in Room 750 of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, located at 14 Marietta Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Directions

Please RSVP
In order to adequately accommodate participants we request your attendance confirmation no later than Noon on Friday, April 14. Please contact the Fiscal Research Center at 404-651-2782 or e-mail dtaylor4@gsu.edu. The conference is free and open to interested parties.

"Fiscal Relations and Fiscal Conditions"

Program for Thursday, April 20

8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:40 Welcome

8:40 – 10:10 Session I

• Facilitator: James Alm (Georgia State University)
• Mark Skidmore (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) PAPER
• Craig Maher (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) The Effects of School Finance Reform on School Referendum Activity and Pass Rates: Evidence from Wisconsin
• William Duncombe (Syracuse University) Costing Out the Implementation of NCLB: Is It an Under-Funded Mandate

10:10 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 12:10 Session II

• Facilitator: Mark Rider (Georgia State University)
• Brian Knight (Brown University)
• Nora Gordon (University of California-San Diego) The Fiscal Impact of Political Integration: Evidence from School District Consolidation
• Leslie Papke (Michigan State University) The Effects of Changes in Michigan’s School Finance System

12:10 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Session III

• Facilitator: Laura Wheeler (Georgia State University)
• Richard Bird (University of Toronto)
• Enid Slack (University of Toronto) Cities in Canadian Federalism
• Matthew Murray (University of Tennessee) and Jason Fletcher (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Personal Income Tax Equity Provisions and Competition/Mimicking Across States
• David Wildasin (University of Kentucky) Disaster Relief and Preparedness: Evolving Intergovernmental Fiscal and Regulatory Structures

3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:00 Discussion

4:00 – 4:40 Session IV

• Roy Bahl (Georgia State University)
  Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: A Perspective

Program for Friday, April 21

8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 10:10 Session V

• Facilitator: Sally Wallace (Georgia State University)
• Howard Chernick (Hunter College)
• Andrew Reschovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Fiscal Conditions for Selected Metropolitan Areas
• Richard Hawkins (University of West Florida) Four Easy Steps to a Fiscal Train Wreck: The Florida How-To Guide
• Robert Strauss and Joshua Hart (Carnegie Mellon University) The Financial Position of Pennsylvania’s Public Sectors: Past, Present, and Future
• Robert Wassmer (California State University-Sacramento) Politics, Constitutional Restrictions, Revenue Reliance, Demographics, and the “Free Lunch”: Explanations for California’s State Fiscal Trends since Proposition 13

10:10 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 12:30 Session VI

• Facilitator: William Fox (University of Tennessee)
• Ronald Fisher (Michigan State University) Thoughts about Michigan’s Fiscal Conditions (no paper)
• Gary Cornia (Brigham Young University) Thoughts about Utah’s Fiscal Conditions (no paper)

General Discussion