The Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF) is a collaborative effort of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ nationally ranked faculty to provide research on issues affecting the future of state and local public finance and to educate the next generation of leaders in public financial management. To learn more about the CSLF and AYSPS, visit https://cslf.gsu.edu and https://aysps.gsu.edu.
Submissions from 2022
Feeling the Heat? Fear of Failure and Performance, Alberto Chong and Marco Chong
Submissions from 2019
Age-Based Property Tax Exemptions in Georgia, H. Spencer Banzhaf, Ryan Mickey, Carlianne Patrick, and Per Johnson
Dynamic Revenue Analysis: Experience of the States, Peter Bluestone and Carolyn Bourdeaux
Financing Georgia’s Schools, Elton Davis and Isabel Ruthotto
State and Local Taxes and High-Wage Employment, Sohani Fatehin and David Sjoquist
The Impact of Interstate Mobility on the Effectiveness of Property Tax Reduction in Georgia, Andrew Feltenstein, Mark Rider, David Sjoquist, and John Winters
Fiscal Transparency andAccountability, Alex Hathaway, Carolyn Bourdeaux, and Emily Franklin
Georgia’s Community Improvement Districts (CIDs), Lindsay Kuhn, Sarah Larson, and Carolyn Bourdeaux
Effects of the Great Recession on Tax Increment Financing in the United States, Georgia and Atlanta, Dick Layton
The Value of Historic District Status in Georgia, Carlianne Patrick
Georgia's Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax for Education: Review of Trends and Policy Implications, Ross Rubenstein and Nicholas Warner
New Normal? The Declining Relative Importance of State Taxes, David Sjoquist
Georgia’s Equalization Grant, Nicholas Warner
Preparing Local Tax Expenditure Reports: A Practical Guide for Local Governments, Laura Wheeler and Per Johnson
Submissions from 2018
Driverless Cars, Virtual Offices and Their Effects on Local Government Revenues, Peter Bluestone and Nicholas Warner
Fiscal Transparencyacross the States:A Volcker Alliance Paper, Jesseca Lightbourne, Alex Hathaway, Emily Franklin, Bethel Habte, and Bart Hildreth
State Taxes: What Might the Future Be, David Sjoquist
Wheel of Fortune: What Pat Sajack Didn’t Tell You, Nick Warner
Submissions from 2017
A Review of the Georgia Property Tax, Peter Bluestone
A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget: The Big Picture, Carolyn Bourdeaux
A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget: The Big Picture, Bob Buschman and Maggie Reeves
Revenue Forecasting Practices: Accuracy, Transparency and Political Acceptance, Emily Franklin
Fiscal Transparency and Accountability – Updated Presentation, Alex Hathaway
Georgia’s Special Purpose Local OptionSales Tax for Education: Review of Trendsand Policy Implications – ABFM 2017, Ross Rubenstein, Youngwan Song, and Nicholas Warner
What to Expect from our Demographic and Economic Trends, Sally Wallace
Submissions from 2016
Georgia’s Community Improvement Districts, Lindsay Kuhn, Sarah Larson, and Carolyn Bourdeaux
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES’ TAX PLANS, Lucia Smeal
Submissions from 2015
Dynamic Revenue Analysis: Experience of the States, Peter Bluestone and Carolyn Bourdeaux
A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget: The Big Picture, Carolyn Bourdeaux
Connecticut Fiscal Comparisons, Carolyn Bourdeaux
STATE TAX COMMISSIONS AND TAX REFORM PROPOSALS, Rahul Pathak, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Sally Wallace, and Sarah Larson
Forecasting School Districts’ Revenues and Expenditures, Nick Warner
Forecasting in Times of Increased Volatility, Laura Wheeler
Georgia Municipal Incorporation and Annexation concerns and Practices in Other States, Laura Wheeler
Analysis of the Impact of Tax Incentives on the Consumption of Electric Vehicles, Laura Wheeler and Mels Zeeuw
Submissions from 2014
A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget FY15A-FY16, Carolyn Bourdeaux
The Effect of Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM, David Sjoquist and John Winters
State and Federal Public Finance, Sally Wallace
Submissions from 2013
A Briefing on Georgia’s Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Budget With a Focus on Education Funding, Carolyn Bourdeaux
Getting Adjusted to the New Normal Local Government Finance in Georgia Post-Recession, Carolyn Bourdeaux
The Kansas Experiment: Considering Dynamic Effects, Carolyn Bourdeaux
Measuring the Effect of Job Creation Tax Credits, Tamoya Christie, Shiferaw Gurmu, Zachary Hawley, David Sjoquist, and Laura Wheeler
State Corporate Income Taxes, David Sjoquist
Tax Reform Georgia Style, David Sjoquist
THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAX CREDIT: An Analysis of the District of Columbia’s Assessment Limitation, David Sjoquist
State Individual Income Taxes, Sally Wallace
Submissions from 2012
A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget, Carolyn Bourdeaux
The Changing Shape of State Spending, Carolyn Bourdeaux
Submissions from 2010
Georgia Georgia s’ Taxes, David Sjoquist
Submissions from 2008
Property Tax Overview, David Sjoquist