Public Finance & Economics

Our research examines three main themes:

How the government raises revenue through taxes and borrowing, and on how the government disburses those funds.
How the government plans, controls, and accounts for such activities through budgeting and accounting, as well as the design and administration of all of these functions.
The impact of public sector activities on the economic behavior of individuals, firms, nonprofit organizations, and markets, and on economic efficiency.

Faculty Members

David B. Audretsch Distinguished Professor	daudrets@indiana.edu (812) 855-6766 211	Economic Policy Entrepreneurship Innovation Globalization Regional Economic Policy
B. Andrew Chupp Senior Lecturer	chuppa@iu.edu (812) 855-1375 375C	Public Choice Public Economics Environmental Economics Energy Economics Public Policy International Macroeconomics
Sameeksha Desai Associate Professor	desai@indiana.edu (812) 856-4647 215	Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development policy Political economy and allocation of entrepreneurship in areas of political instability, conflict, and disaster Postconflict reconstruction Social entrepreneurship
Denvil R. Duncan Associate Professor	duncande@indiana.edu (812) 855-7493 375F	Public Economics Labor Economics Economic Development
Seth Freedman Associate Professor	freedmas@indiana.edu (812) 855-5054 355	Health Economics Public Economics Labor Economics
Bradley T. Heim Executive Associate Dean	heimb@indiana.edu (812) 855-9783 300	Impact of income taxes on individual behavior Impact of audits on tax compliance Affordable Care Act and labor market outcomes Causes of increasing income inequality
Craig Johnson Associate Professor	crljohns@indiana.edu (812) 855-0732 229	Capital markets and financial intermediation Financial management, public budgeting, and finance Financing e-government Financing economic development Environmental and infrastructure finance
Robert Kravchuk Professor	kravchuk@indiana.edu (812) 856-7888 375H	Public Finance Macro-budgeting Public Debt Markets U.S. Defense Department Procurement Management Political Economy of Reform in Formerly Socialist Countries
Kerry Krutilla Professor	krutilla@indiana.edu (812) 855-0492 461	Theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis Environmental and natural resource modeling and policy evaluation
Antung Anthony Liu Assistant Professor	aaliu@indiana.edu (812) 856-4647 375D	Climate change policy Environment in developing countries Pollution issues and the interactions between the environment and the economy in China
John L. Mikesell Chancellor's Professor Emeritus	mikesell@indiana.edu (812) 855-0732 408	Governmental finance, especially questions of policy and administration of sales and property taxation State lotteries Public budgeting Public finance in countries of the former Soviet Union
Ashlyn Aiko Nelson Associate Professor	ashlyn@indiana.edu (812) 855-0732 410F	Causes and consequences of inequality in housing and education Social justice School finance Housing finance
Alberto Ortega Assistant Professor	alorte@iu.edu 339A	Race and ethnicity Economics of education Social and health policy
Victoria A. Perez Assistant Professor	vieperez@indiana.edu (812) 856-4647 375G	Private and governmental financing of healthcare Insurance economics, finance, and regulation
Daniel Preston Clinical Associate Professor	prestond@indiana.edu (812) 856-4925 217	International Affairs Poverty Alleviation Corporate and Public Sector Strategy Country Competitiveness Financial Markets Economic Development Education Good Governance and Policy Analysis
Justin Ross Associate Professor	justross@indiana.edu (812) 856-7559 SPEA 375E	State and local public finance topics Property taxes Property assessment Local income taxes Zoning, local governance coordination, and tax amnesty programs
Barry M. Rubin Professor Emeritus	rubin@indiana.edu (812) 855-4556 408	Urban and regional economic development and impact analysis State-level energy policy analysis and modeling State-level impacts of global climate change Quantitative analysis of local government management and labor relations issues Statistics and quantitative methods Econometric modeling Strategic planning and management
Michael Rushton Professor	mirushto@iu.edu (812) 855-2947 A323	Cultural economics, policy and administration Nonprofit organizations Tax policy Current research concerns cultural districts and tax policy towards nonprofit organizations and charitable donations
Kosali Simon Herman B Wells Endowed Professor	simonkos@indiana.edu (812) 856-3850 357	Health economics and policy The impact of state and federal regulations attempting to ease the availability of private and public health insurance for vulnerable populations Health and labor market outcomes
Anh Tran Professor	trananh@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563 410K	Institutions and behavior of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and workers in developing countries
Coady Wing Associate Professor	cwing@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563 341A	Health and Social Policy Regulation of Labor Markets Causal Inference Applied Econometrics
Nikolaos Zirogiannis Assistant Scientist	nzirogia@indiana.edu (812) 856-8323 331	Applied Econometrics Time Series Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Environmental Policy
C. Kurt Zorn Professor	zorn@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563 459	State and Local Finance Transportation Safety Economic Development Gaming Policy