IFIR


A Partnership of
The Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky
and
The Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy at Morehead State University
William H. Hoyt
Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy

Department of Economics
Gatton College of Business and Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506

Phone: (859) 257-2518
Fax:     (859) 323-1920
E-mail: whoyt@uky.edu
 

Biography:

Dr. Hoyt is an economist specializing in public policy analysis with an emphasis on state and local public finance. Dr. Hoyt’s current research includes work on the impacts of state and local taxes on employment, fiscal competition among state and local governments, the design and coordination of hierarchical tax structures, educational choice plans and crossover in the use of poverty programs. Dr. Hoyt has served as Principal Investigator on projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Department of Labor, National Center for Real Estate Research, the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture (Economic Research Service). He has served on numerous advisory boards for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Economics.

Recent Publications:

  • "Subsidies as Sorting Devices" (with Kangoh Lee), Journal of Urban Economics, 53(3), (May 2003):436-457.
  • "Do States Choose Their Mix of Taxes to Minimize Employment Losses?," (with J. William Harden), National Tax Journal, 61(1,part1), March 2003):7-26.
  • "Tax Policy Coordination, Vertical Externalities, and Optimal Taxation in a System of Hierarchical Governments," Journal of Urban Economics, 50 (December 2001):491-516.
  • “Precommitment in a System of Hierarchical Governments,” (with Richard A. Jensen) Regional Science and Urban Economics 26 (August 1996): 481-504.
  • "Bidding for Firms" (with Dan Black), American Economic Review 79 (December 1989): 1249-1256.
Research in Progress:
  • “MSA Location and the Impact of State Taxes on Employment and Population: A Comparison of Border and Interior MSA’s” (with J. William Harden)
  • Decentralized Tax and Public Service Policies with Differential Mobility of Residents
  • The Optimal Division of the Tax Base in a System of Hierarchical Governments