Endowed Chair in Public Finance and Professor
of Economics
Martin School of Public Policy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
Phone: (859) 257-2456
Fax: (859)
323-1937
E-mail: dew@davidwildasin.us
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Biography:
David E. Wildasin, Director of IFIR, is Endowed Professor of Public Finance in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration and a Professor in the Department of Economics of the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Prior to his appointment at Kentucky, he was a Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, and he has held other permanent and visiting appointments at Queen's University (Canada), the Universite Catholique de Louvain, the World Bank, and numerous other academic, research, and public policy institutions in the US and abroad. He has written extensively on fiscal federalism, subnational government finance, and intergovernmental fiscal relations, with articles appearing in books and in professional journals such as the American Economic Review, the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, and many others. He is also the author and editor of several books, including Urban Public Finance and Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations. Professor Wildasin has served as a research associate and consultant for academic, business, civic, governmental, and international organizations. In recent years, he has conducted research on such issues as state and local tax policy in Kentucky, European economic integration and its implications for tax, expenditure, and debt policies in the EU, and fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries including Brazil, India, and South Africa.
Recent Publications:
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“The Institutions of Federalism: Toward an Analytical Framework,” National Tax Journal 62 (2), Part 1, June 2004, 247-272. (Morris Beck Paper for 2004.)
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“Pareto Efficiency in International Taxation,” with M. Keen, American Economic Review 94 (1), March 2004, 259-275. (Previously appeared as CESifo Working Paper No. 371, November, 2000.) To be reprinted in Rodney E. Falvey and Udo Kreickemeier (eds.), Recent Developments in International Trade Theory (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
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“Economic Integration and the Welfare State,” CESifo Forum 5 (3), Autumn 2004, 19-26.
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“Fiscal Competition in Space and Time,” Journal of Public Economics 87 (11), October, 2003, 2571-2588. (Previously appeared as CESifo Working Paper No. 370, November, 2000.)
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“Tax Reform in Kentucky: Principles and Practice”, “Recent Trends in Kentucky State and Local Tax Policy”, “Sales Taxation in Kentucky: Problems and Prospects”, and “Local Government Finances in Kentucky”, in D. E. Wildasin, M. T. Childress, M. Hackbart, L. K. Lynch, and C. W. Martie, Financing State and Local Government (Frankfort: Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center, 2001).
Research in Progress:
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“Competitive Fiscal Structures.”
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“Economic Integration: Implications for Equity, Efficiency, Political Economy, and the Organization of the Public Sector.”
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“Public Pensions and Demographic Change in Developed Countries: Fertility Bust and Migration Boom?”
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“The Dynamics of Municipal Fiscal Adjustment,” with T. Buettner.
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“Fiscal Competition: Implications for Political Economy and Issues on the Research Horizon.”