Theoretical Economics Volume 20, Issue 3 (July 2025) is now online econtheory.org

Last day to submit! Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

🚨 1 week left! 🚨 Working on local public finance or fiscal federalism? Present your research in Berlin 🇩🇪 📅 July 7–8, 2025 📍 Harnack-Haus 🎙️ Keynote: @davidragrawal.bsky.social (UC Irvine) ✈️ Travel & stay covered 📩 Apply by April 15 → events.tax.mpg.de/event/10/ Please share this! ♻️

Local public economics and federalism are important! I'm excited to return to Berlin to give the keynote at this conference on local public finance issues around the world. Travel funding available! Submit your local PF papers here: events.tax.mpg.de/event/10/

Excited to serve another term as Editor-in-chief of @itaxjournal.bsky.social with this new fantastic team!

Thanks to both Ron and Nadine for their service to the public finance community, especially during the crazy pandemic years. I learned a lot & enjoyed working with them over the last four years where submissions to the journal almost doubled! And follow @itaxjournal.bsky.social which is new here!

This is really cool! Have always thought this was a missing extension, particularly in the SALT context

Spatial tax competition models assume people are uniformly distributed in jurisdictions, but what if jurisdictions differ in how their populations are distributed? See my paper "Sensitivity versus size: Implications for tax competition" w/ Bagh and Mardan in @econtheory.bsky.social Thread:

Open call for papers, Fiscal Dynamics of State and Local Governments. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on September 11-12, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on February 27, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/fiscal-dynamics-state-and-local-governments

A “tax haven” stirs up imagery of tropical island paradises that set very low tax rates. Are state/local governments that levy zero tax rates hidden "tax havens"? Check out my chapter "Hidden Havens: State and Local Governments as Tax Havens?" in this @elgarpublishing.bsky.social book Thread:

With telework decoupling the state of work & residence, how do local income taxes affect wages, house prices, population and employment? Check out my article “Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy” w/ Brueckner in J. @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Thread:

How does requiring firms to remit taxes influence local revenues? Does added enforcement benefit larger or smaller jurisdictions? See my paper "Remittance Rules and the Distribution of Local Tax Revenue: Evidence after Wayfair" with Iuliia Shybalkina in @natltax.bsky.social Thread👇

My Annual Review article w/ Brueckner & @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social article on fiscal federalism is now available open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Is inequality a local or a national issue? Who should oversee disaster policy? What externalities arise from multi-level governance?

I missed @iipf.bsky.social because of some good news! I've moved to the University of California, Irvine where I was promoted to Professor of Economics! I'm excited about my outstanding new colleagues/students. I'm grateful for the nine years at UKY's Martin School.

Was tun, wenn Unternehmen ihre Gewinne in Niedrigsteuerländer verschieben? @davidragrawal.bsky.social, @omzidar.bsky.social & James Poterba analysieren im Paper der Woche, wie schädliche Auswirkungen des Steuerwettbewerbs abgemildert werden können. Zusammengefasst von @katharinamader.bsky.social. 1/

My paper on the taxation of nonresident income by U.S. states is out in this month's issue of AEJ: Policy: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Thanks for your patience, IIPF followers on BlueSky! We now have great news to post: 📣 the Call for Papers for #IIPF2024 Congress in Prague is out! iipf2024.vse.cz

Working paper! "A New Approach to Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Decentralized Policies" with William Hoyt and Tidiane Ly What are the welfare effects of decentralization? How can federal govnts prioritize grants for local policies to internalize spillovers? Answers: ssrn.com/abstract=400...

Hi Bluesky! Thanks to @apeichl.bsky.social, I'm now here too! For new followers on here, I'm a public finance economist working taxation, local public finance, fiscal competition, mobility, inequality, and consumption taxation, likely writing about some combination of these topics. Follow me!