2004 - Publications and Working Papers
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-35
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China, Richard M. Bird, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-34
Tax Burden in Jamaica, Dillon Alleyne, James Alm, Roy Bahl, and Sally Wallace, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-33
Taxation and Economic Efficiency in Jamaica, Miles K. Light, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-32
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica: The GCT and the SCT, Kelly D. Edmiston and Richard M. Bird, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-31
Payroll Taxes and Contributions, James Alm and Sally Wallace, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-30
The Jamaican Individual Income Tax, Sally Wallace and James Alm, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-29
Taxation Issues in The Jamaican External Trade Sector, Felix K. Rioja and Keith E. Maskus, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-28
Corporate Income Tax and Tax Incentives, Mark Rider, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-27
Property Transfer Tax and Stamp Duty, Roy Bahl, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-26
The Land Value Tax in Jamaica: An Analysis and Options for Reform, David L. Sjoquist, December 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-25
Tax Policy Design in The Presence of Social Preferences: Some Experimental Evidence, Lucy F. Ackert, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-24
Beliefs about Exchange-Rate Stability: Survey Evidence from the Currency Board in Bulgaria, Neven T. Valev and John A. Carlson, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-23
From a Currency Board to the Euro: Public Attitudes toward Unilateral Euroization in Bulgaria, Neven T. Valev, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-22
Intergovernmental Loans: Their Fit into a Transfer System, Dana Weist, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-21
Designing Intergovernmental Equalization Transfers with Imperfect Data: Concepts, Practices, and Lessons, Jamie Boex and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-20
Harmonizing Objectives and Outcomes at the National and Sub-National Levels through Citizen Engagement and Capacity Building, Alex B. Brillantes Jr. and Jose Tiu Sonco, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-19
Intergovernmental Transfers: The Vertical Sharing Dimension, Roy Bahl and Sally Wallace, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-18
On the Design and Effectiveness of Targeted Expenditure Programs, Ehtisham Ahmad and Leo Martinez, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-17
Intergovernmental Transfers: The Funding Rule and Mechanisms, Paul Bernd Spahn, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-16
Revenue Sharing, Natural Resources and Fiscal Equalization, Bob Searle, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-15
Fiscal Capacity Equalization and Economic Efficiency, Jeff Petchey and Sophia Levtchenkova, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-14
A model for Public Infrastructure Equalization in Transitional Economies, Sophia Levtchenkova and Jeff Petchey, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-13
The Political Economy of Equalization Transfers, Stuti Khemani, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-12
The impact of Equalization on Service Delivery, Catherine Hull and Bob Searle, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-11
Ensuring Inter-regional Equity and Poverty Reduction, Bert Hofman and Susana Cordeira Guerra, November 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-10
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers, Francois Vaillancourt and Richard M. Bird, November 2004

Evaluation of the Pre-K Summer Readiness Pilot Program, by Bentley D. Ponder, Dana K. Rickman and Gary T. Henry, November 2004.

Research Atlanta report
Georgia’s Redevelopment Powers Law: A Policy Guide to the Evaluation and Use of Tax Allocation Districts, by Carolyn Bourdeaux and John Matthews, November 2004.

Georgia Health Policy Center Report
Expanding Health Care Access with DSH: Georgia's Indigent Care Trust Fund, Glenn Landers, November 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center Report
Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids Provider Customer Service Satisfaction Survey Results Fall 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center Report
Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids Member Customer Service Satisfaction Survey Results Fall 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center Working Paper
Comparing the Health Status and Health Care Utilization of Children in Georgia's Foster Care System to Other Georgia Medicaid Children , Prepared for the Georgia Health Foundation, Glenn Landers and Mei Zhou, October 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-08
The Impact Changing Asian Attitudes and Preferences Will Have on Seniors Housing Market Analysis: A Korean Example, by Karen M. Gibler and Euehun Lee, October 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-09
Value Adding Attributes of CREM, by Anna-Liisa Sarasoja, Karen M. Gibler and Kari I. Leväinen, October 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-09
Economic Growth with Imperfect Foreign Investment, Henry Thompson, September 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-08
Ukraine: Assessment of the Implementation of the New Formula Based Inter-Governmental Transfer System, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Signe Zeikate, September 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-07
Is the Proposed East African Monetary Union an Optimal Currency Area? A Structural Sector Autoregression Analysis, Steven K. Buigut and Neven T. Valev, September 2004

The Effects of Communication Among Taxpayers on Compliance, James Alm, Betty R. Jackson and Michael McKee, September 2004

Russian Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes - Before, During, and After the Transition, James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Benno Torgler, September 2004

Do Motor Fuel Sales-below-cost Laws Lower Prices?, James Alm, Mark Skidmore and James Peltier, September 2004

Fiscal Research Center Report #95
Distribution of Per Capita Income in Georgia: 1969-2000, Robert L. Collins and William J. Smith, September 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-06
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries, Richard M. Bird, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Benno Torgler, September 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-05
Linking expenditure assignments and intergovernmental grants in Indonesia , Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Jamie Boex and Gabe Ferrazzi, September 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-03
Price Formation under Small Numbers Competition: Evidence from Land Auctions in Singapore, by Joseph T.L. Ooi, C.F. Sirman, and Geoffrey K. Turnbull, September 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-04
GMM Estimation of Fiscal Policy Interdependence Across States, by Mary G. McGarvey and Mary Beth Walker, September 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-05
The Effect of Home Rule on Local Government Behavior: Is There No Rule Like Home Rule?, by Geoffrey K. Turnbull and Gyusuck Geon, September 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-06
Location-Specific Human Capital, Migration and Amenities, by Douglas Krupka, September 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-04
Making Fiscal Decentralization Work in Vietnam, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, August 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-03
Effects of culture on tax compliance: A cross check of experimental and survey evidence, Ronald G. Cummings, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Michael McKee, Benno Torgler, August 2004

Payroll Taxes and Contributions in Jamaica, James Alm and Sally Wallace, August 2004

The Individual Income Tax in Jamaica, James Alm and Sally Wallace, August 2004

Can Developing Countries Impose an Individual Income Tax?, James Alm and Sally Wallace, August 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-10
Environmental Justice in Cuba: Capital Needs, Developing a Tourist Infrastructure, and Liberty of Access to National Resource, by Colin Crawford, August 2004

Taxing the "Family" in the Individual Income Tax, James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik, July 2004

How Fair? Federal Income Taxation and the Distribution of Income, 1978-1998, James Alm, Fitzroy Lee and Sally Wallace, July 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-02
Local Government Internal Structure, External Constraints and the Median Voter Hypothesis, by Geoffrey K. Turnbull and Gyusuck Geon, July 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center, Finding Health Insurance: Coverage After College, Beck, James T., Georgia Health Policy Center, June 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center, Final Report: The Georgia Long-term Care Partnership 2001 - 2004, Landers, G. Georgia Health Policy Center, June 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-01
Development Moratoria, by Geoffrey K. Turnbull, revised June 2004

Extending an order on a set to its power set: An axiomatic characterization of the average Borda rule, Nick Baigent and Yongsheng Xu, May 2004

Culture Differences and Tax Morale in the United States and Europe, James Alm and Benno Torgler, May 2004

Rationalizability of choice functions by game trees, Yongsheng Xu and Lin Zhou, May 2004

A new insight into three bargaining solutions in convex problems, by Yongsheng Xu and Naoki Yoshihara, April 2004

Payroll Taxes in Colombia, James Alm and Hugo Lopez-Castano, April 2004

Fiscal Research Center Report #94
Alternative Formulas for Allocating LOST Revenue to Counties and Municipalities, David L. Sjoquist and Laura Wheeler, April 2004

International Studies Program Working Paper Number 04-02
Developing the institutional framework for intergovernmental fiscal relations in decentralizing LDCs, Jamie Boex and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, April 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center, Geogia Healthcare Coverage Project. Insuring the Uninsured: Three Models for Financing Health, Funded by HRSA, US Department of Health and Human Services, April 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center, Georgia Healthcare Coverage Project. A View of Small Business Owners, Funded by HRSA, US Department of Health and Human Services, April 2004

Nonconvex Bargaining Problems, by Yongsheng Xu and Naoki Yoshihara, March 2004

Fiscal Research Center Report #93
Firm Location Decisions and Information Needs, Laura Czohara, Julia Melkers and Kouassi Dagawa, March 2004

URAG Working Paper No. 04-07
Squatting, Eviction and Development, by Geoffrey K. Turnbull, March 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center, Rebalancing Georgia's Long-Term Care System, Glenn Landers, Georgia Health Policy Center, March 2004

Fiscal Research Center Report #92
Performance Measurement in State Economic Development Agencies: Lessons and Next Steps for GDITT , Ms. Laura Czohara, Dr. Julia Melkers, February 2004

Fiscal Research Center Report #91
Does Georgia Need A Unitary Tax?, Martin F. Grace, February 2004

Fiscal Research Center Tenth Edition
Georgia's Taxes, Martin F. Grace, January 2004

International Studies Working Paper Number 04-01
Subnational Government Structure and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Jamie Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrei Timofeev, January 2004

Audit Selection and Firm Compliance with a Broad-based Sales Tax, James Alm, Calvin Blackwell and Michael McKee, January 2004

Seller Reputation, Information Signals, and Prices of Heterogeneous Goods on eBay, James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik, January 2004

Georgia Health Policy Center, Preventing Overweight Children in Georgia Opportunities for Foundations and Grantmakers, Multiple Authors