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Summer School Reading List

Recommended Reading List

        I.            Presentation:             Research On Corporate Taxation:  Issues and Challenges

Professor:                    Roger Gordon

Cullen, J. B. and R. H. Gordon (2007). "Taxes and entrepreneurial risk-taking: Theory and evidence for the U.S." Journal of Public Economics Vol. 91: 1479-1505.

           

Gordon, R. and Y. Lee (2007). "Interest Rates, Taxes and Corporate Financial Policies." National Tax Journal Vol. LX(No. 1): 65-84.

           

Gordon, R. H. and J. Slemrod (1998). Are "Real" Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases? NBER Working Paper Series. Cambridge, National Bureau of Economic Research.

           

           

      II.            Presentation:             Wage Differentials and Inequality

Professor:                    Barry Hirsch

Autor, D., L. Katz, et al. (2008). "Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists." Review of Economics and Statistics(May).

           

Autor, D., F. Levy, et al. (2003). "The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration." Quarterly Journal of Economics(November).

           

Card, D., T. Lemieux, et al. (2004). "Unions and Wage Inequality." Journal of Labor Research(Fall).

 

    III.            Presentation:             Research In Global Public Goods: Issues And Challenges

Professors:                  Spencer Banzhaf and Paul Ferraro

Barrett, S. (2007). Introduction: The Incentives to Supply Global Public Goods. Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, Oxford University Press.

           

Costello, C., S. D. Gaines, et al. (2008). "Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse?" SCIENCE 321.

           

Murray, B. C., R. G. Newell, et al. (2009). "Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(1): 84–103.

           

Weitzman, M. L. (1974). "Prices vs. Quantities." The Review of Economic Studies 41(4): 477-491.

           

 

 

   IV.            Presentation:             Research In Public Management Issues

Professor:                    Fred Thompson

Thompson, F. (2007). The Political Economy of Public Administration. HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. H. M. Rabin, Marcel Dekker, Inc.: 1063-1100.

           

Thompson, F. and B. Gates (2007). "Betting on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball: Revenue Forecasting, Financial Theory, and Budgets - An Expanded Treatment." Public Administration Review 67(5): 48-66.

 

     V.            Workshop I

 

   VI.            Presentation:             Research In Fiscal Decentralization Policy: Issues and Challenges

Professor:                    Roy Bahl

            NOTE: READING MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON

           

 VII.            Presentation:             Research In Taxation and Labor Supply Issues

Professor:                    Hilary Hoynes

Blundell, R., A. Duncan, et al. (1998). "Estimating Labor Supply Responses Using Tax Reforms." Econometrica Vol. 66: 827-862.

           

Blundell, R. and T. MaCurdy (1999). Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches. Handbook of Labor Economics. O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, Elsevier Science: pp. 1559-1695.

           

Eissa, N. and J. B. Leibman (1996). "Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit." Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 111(No. 2): 605-637.

           

Saez, E. (2002). Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?, UC Berkeley.

           

 

VIII.            Workshop II

 

    IX.            Presentation:             Fundamental Tax Reform

Professor:                    Harvey Rosen

Hines, J. R. (2007). "Taxing Consumption and Other Sins." Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(Winter): 49-68.

           

Kaplow, L. (2008). The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics. Theory of Taxation and Public Economics, Princeton University Press: 221-235 only.

           

Slemrod, J. and J. Bakija (2008). Elements of Fundamental Reform. Taxing Ourselves: A Citizens Guide to the Debate over Taxes, MIT Press.

           

      X.            Presentation: New Developments In Program Evaluation and Other Areas of Microeconometrics

Professor:                    Guido Imbens

Imbens, G. W. and J. M. Wooldridge (2009). "Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation." Journal of Economic Literature 47(1): 5-86.

           

    XI.            Presentation:             Research In Welfare Reform

Professor:                    Jeffrey Grogger

NOTE: READING MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON

 

  XII.            Presentation:             Political Economy Of Fiscal Federalism: Moving Beyond the Median Voter Model

Professor:                    Robert Inman

Baqir, R. (2002). "Districting and Government Overspending." The Journal of Political Economy 110(6): 13-18.

           

Ferreira, F. and J. Gyourko (2009). "Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities." The Quarterly Journal of Economics(February): 399- 422.

           

Inman, R. T. (2008). The Flypaper Effect. NBER Working Paper Series, National Bureau of Economic Research.

           

Knight, B. (2002). "Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program." The American Economic Review 92(1): 71-92.

 

XIII.            Presentation:             Research In Urban Economics: Challenges and Issues

Professor:                    Geoffrey Turnball

Brueckner, J. K. (2000). "Urban Sprawl: Diagnosis and Remedies." International Regional Science Review 23: 160-171.

           

Glaeser, E. L. (2007). The Economic Approach to the City. NBER Working Paper Series.

           

Quigley, J. M. and L. Rosenthal (2005). "The Effects of Land Regulations on the Price of Housing: What Do We Know? What Can We Learn?" Cityscape 8: 69-110.

           

 

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