Recent Research

Selected Publications

“Voluntary Contributions and Local Public Goods in a Federation,” Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.

“Does Mobility Undermine Income Redistribution?: A Political-Support Approach to Income Redistribution in a Federation, ” FinanzArchiv, forthcoming.

 “Wealth, Income, and Optimal Insurance,” Journal of Risk and Insurance, forthcoming.

“Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Administrative Costs,” Public Finance Review, 2006, 195-211.

“Absentee Ownership of Immobile Factors and Environmental Policies in a Federation,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 2005, 407-417.

 “Self-Insurance and Self-Protection against Monetary Wealth and Nonmonetary Wealth,” Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory), 2005, 147-159.

“Land Taxation and the Henry George Theorem under Uncertainty,” Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 11-23.

“Taxation of Mobile Factors as Insurance under Uncertainty,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 253-272

"Should Land and Capital be Taxed at a Uniform Rate?" Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003, 350-372.

"Factor Ownership and Governmental Strategic Interaction," Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2003, 345-361.

"Subsidies as Sorting Devices," (with William Hoyt) Journal of Urban Economics, 2003, 436-457.

"An Analysis of Welfare Effects of Legislative Term Limits," Public Choice, 2002, 245-260.

"Factor Mobility and Income Redistribution in a Federation," Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 77-100.

"Tax Evasion and Self-Insurance," Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 73- 81.

Working Papers

“Heterogeneous Factor Endowments and Tax Competition”

“Early Selection”

“Labor Mobility, Training, and Efficiency”

“Externality Competition”

 “Tax Evasion, Tax Rates, and the Timing of Penalties”

“Risk-Aversion and Self-Insurance”

“Crime In a Multi-Jurisdictional Model with Public and Private Crime Prevention (with Santiago Pinto)”

Legislative Term Limits: Seniority and Distributive Politics"