8:30-8:40 a.m. | Welcome from Siân Mooney, Dean of the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University |
Session I: Politics and Budgets |
8:40-9:20 a.m. | “A Distaste for Deficits: Voter Opinion and Balanced Budget Laws in the US States” Download paper - Carolyn Abott, Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Politics, St. John’s University
Discussant: Dan Smith, Associate Professor, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware |
9:20-10:00 a.m. | “Priority Based Budgeting: An Honest Broker Among Municipal Departments?” Download paper - David Mitchell, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida
Discussant: Katherine Willoughby, Margaret Hughes and Robert T. Golembiewski Professor of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia |
10:00-10:40 a.m. | “Tax Now or Tax Never: Political Optionality and the Case for Current-Assessment Reform” Download paper - David Gamage, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
- John R. Brooks, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Discussant: Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law |
Session II: Sales Tax Incidence |
10:55-11:35 a.m. | “Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Understand Local Sales Tax Base and the Question of ‘Who Pays’” Download paper - Whitney Afonso, Associate Professor, School of Government, University of North Carolina
- Jeremy Moulton, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina
Discussant: Enda Patrick Hargaden, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
11:35 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | “State Electric Vehicle Tax Credits: An Analysis of Incidence and Equity” Download paper - Peter Bluestone, Senior Research Associate, Center for State and Local Government, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
- Robert Buschman, Associate Director and Senior Research Associate, Fiscal Research Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University
- Laura Wheeler, Associate Director, Center for State and Local Government, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Discussant: Shanthi Ramnath, Senior Policy Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
12:45-1:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE: “Vested Interests in Failed Policies” Casey Mulligan, Professor, The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
Session III: Fiscal Consequences of Political Structure |
2:15-2:55 p.m. | “The Impact of Horizontal Fragmentation on Inter-Municipal Fiscal Equality” Download paper - Robert E. Hines, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia
Discussant: Christopher Berry, William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor, Harris School of Public Policy and the College, University of Chicago |
2:55-3:35 p.m. | “Does Yardstick Competition Exist Among Overlapping Localities? Evidence on the Fiscal Effects of Direct Democracy” Download paper Discussant: David Brasington, James C. and Caroline Kautz Chair in Political Economy Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati |
Session IV: Applied Topics I |
3:50-4:30 p.m. | “Decentralization and Firm Performance: Evidence from China” Download paper - Denvil Duncan, Associate Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
- Yongzheng Liu, Associate Professor, School of Finance, Renmin University of China
- Alfred Wu, Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Zhirong “Jerry” Zhao, Gross Family Professor in Public and Nonprofit Management, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota |
4:30-5:10 p.m. | “The Short-Term Impact on Emissions and Federal Tax Revenue of a Carbon Tax in the U.S. Electricity Sector” Download paper - Deborah Carroll, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida
Discussant: Mike Pagano, Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago |
