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

IFIR Publications

IFIR research is disseminated through publications, including the IFIR working paper series. Many of these papers are later published in professional journals or books.

A forthcoming special issue of CESifo Economic Studies will publish a selection of papers from the IFIR-CESifo conference on "New Directions in Fiscal Federalism." The conference co-organizers, Thiess Buettner and David Wildasin, have written an introduction to this symposium. Read this introductory essay to learn more about the special issue, which is based on the keynote addresses presented at the conference.



IFIR Working Paper Series

IFIR working papers are contributed by IFIR Research Fellows and other scholars affiliated with IFIR or active in its conferences and other activities. IFIR Working Papers are indexed in the EconPapers archive.



2005


No. 2005-01 | "MSA Location and the Impact of State Taxes on Employment and Population: A Comparison of Border and Interior MSA’s," William H. Hoyt and J. William Harden.

No. 2005-02 | "Estimating the Effect of Elite Communications on Public Opinion Using Instrumental Variables," Matthew Gabel and Kenneth Scheve.

No. 2005-03 | "The Dynamics of Municipal Fiscal Adjustment," Thiess Buettner and David E. Wildasin.

No. 2005-04 | "National Party Politics and Supranational Politics in the European Union: New Evidence from the European Parliament," Clifford J. Carrubba, Matthew Gabel, Lacey Murrah, Ryan Clough, Elizabeth Montgomery and Rebecca Schambach.

No. 2005-05 | "Fiscal Competition," David E. Wildasin.

No. 2005-06 | "Do Governments Sway European Court of Justice Decision-making?: Evidence from Government Court Briefs," Clifford J. Carrubba and Matthew Gabel.

No. 2005-07 | “The Assignment and Division of the Tax Base in a System of Hierarchical Governments,” William H. Hoyt.

No. 2005-08 | “Global Competition for Mobile Resources: Implications for Equity, Efficiency, and Political Economy,” David E. Wildasin.


2006


No. 2006-01 | “State Government Cash and In-kind Benefits: Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Cross-Program Substitution,” James Marton and David E. Wildasin.

No. 2006-02 | “Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation, and Voter Welfare,” Jean Hindriks and Ben Lockwood.

No. 2006-03 | “Bureaucratic Advice and Political Governance,” Robin Boadway and Motohiro Sato

No. 2006-04 | “A Theory of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance,” Robin Boadway and Jean-Francois Tremblay.

No. 2006-05 | “On Theory and Practice of Fiscal Decentralization,” Wallace E. Oates.

No. 2006-06 | “The Impact of Thin-Capitalization Rules on Multinationals' Financing and Investment Decisions,” Theiss Buettner, Michael Overesch, Ulrich Schreiber, and Georg Wamser.

No. 2006-07 | “Disasters: Issues for State and Federal Government Finances,” David E. Wildasin.

No. 2006-08 | “Tax Competition, Location, and Horizontal Foreign Investment,” Kristen Behrens and Pierre M. Picard.

No. 2006-09 | “The Effects of Partisan Alignment on the Allocation of Intergovernmental Transfers. Differences-in-Differences Estimates for Spain.” Albert Solè-Ollè and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro.

No. 2006-10 | “Reforming the taxation of Multijurisdictional Enterprises in Europe, "Coopetition" in a Bottom-Up Federation,” Marcel Gerard.

No. 2006-11 | “The Dilemmas of Tax Coordination in the Enlarged European Union,” Jens Brøchner, Jesper Jensen, Patrik Svensson and Peter Birch Sørensen.

No. 2006-12 | “Using a Discontinuous Grant Rule to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending,” Matz Dahlberg, Eva Mörk, Jorn Rattsø and Hanna Ågren.

No. 2006-13 | “Size and Soft Budget Constraints,” Ernesto Crivelli and Klaas Staal.

No. 2006-14 | “On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation,” Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout.

No. 2006-15 | “Fiscal Equalization and Yardstick Competition,” Christos Kotsogiannis and Robert Schwager.


2007


No. 2007-01 | “Disaster Policy in the US Federation: Intergovernmental Incentives and Institutional Reform,” David E. Wildasin.

No. 2007-02 | “Local Government Finance in Kentucky: Time for Reform?” David E. Wildasin.

No. 2007-03 | “Davis v. Department of Revenue of Kentucky: A Preliminary Impact Assessment,” Dwight Denison, Merl Hackbart, and Michael Moody.

No. 2007-04 | “Medicaid Expenditures and State Budgets: Past, Present, and Future,” James Marton and David E. Wildasin.

No. 2007-05 | “Pre-Emption: Federal Statutory Intervention in State Taxation,” David E. Wildasin.

No. 2007-06 | “Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking,” Hikaru Ogawa and David E. Wildasin.

No. 2007-07 | “Equalization Transfers and Dynamic Fiscal Adjustment: Results for German Municipalities and a US-German Comparison,” Thiess Buettner.



2008


No. 2008-01 | “Civic Virtue, the American Founding, and Federalism,” Stephen J. Lange.

No. 2008-02 | “Public Pensions and Demographic Change in Developed Countries: Fertility Bust and Migration Boom? ” David E. Wildasin.