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Publications from 2022

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Current Policies and Practices, Roy W. Bahl, William J. McCluskey, and Riël Franzsen

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Lessons Learned and Prospects for Reform, Roy W. Bahl, William J. McCluskey, and Riël Franzsen

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Context and Comparative Analysis, Roy W. Bahl, William J. McCluskey, Riël Franzsen, and Wenjing Li

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Implementing Federalism: The Case of Nepal, Roy W. Bahl, Andrey Timofeev, and Serdar Yilmaz

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What Does Network Analysis Teach Us about International Environmental Cooperation?, Stefano Carattini, Sam Fankhauser, Jianjian Gao, Caterina Gennaioli, and Pietro Panzarasa

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The Effect of E-cigarette Indoor Vaping Restrictions on Infant Mortality, Michael Cooper and Michael F. Pesko

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How Data Security Concerns Can Hinder Natural Experiment Research: Background and Potential Solutions, Michael F. Pesko

Publications from 2021

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Strengthening Property Taxation within Developing Asia, Roy W. Bahl, William J. McCluskey, and Riël Franzsen

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Designing Effective and Acceptable Road Pricing Schemes: Evidence from the Geneva Congestion Charge, Andrea Baranzini, Stefano Carattini, and Linda Tesauro

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Managing Momentum in Climate Negotiations, Stefano Carattini and Andreas Loeschel

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Testing the Effects of Adaptive Learning Courseware on Student Performance: An Experimental Approach, Grace Eau, Derek Hoodin, and Tareena Musaddiq

Publications from 2020

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The Architecture of Intergovernmental Transfers: Principles and Practice in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Roy W. Bahl

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Taxing Sugary Drinks, Roy W. Bahl and Richard M. Bird

Publications from 2019

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Rebalancing the Economy and Reforming the Fiscal System of the People’s Republic of China, Roy W. Bahl

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Local Government Taxation in Pakistan, Roy W. Bahl and Musharraf Cyan

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Cooperation in the Climate Commons, Stefano Carattini, Simon Levin, and Alessandro Tavoni

Publications from 2018

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Metropolitan City Finances in the Asia and Pacific Region: Issues, Problems and Reform Options, Roy W. Bahl

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Is Taxing Waste a Waste of Time? Evidence from a Supreme Court Decision, Stefano Carattini, Andrea Baranzini, and Rafael Lalive

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Overcoming Public Resistance to Carbon Taxes, Stefano Carattini, Maria Carvalho, and Sam Fankhauser

Publications from 2017

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Policy and Practice, Roy W. Bahl, Riël Franzsen, and William J. McCluskey

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Challenges, Prospects and Recommendations, William J. McCluskey, Riël Franzsen, and Roy W. Bahl

Publications from 2015

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Priorities in the Short and Medium Term, Roy W. Bahl

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The Potential of Provincial Taxation, Roy W. Bahl, Musharraf R. Cyan, and Sally Wallace

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Underutilized Land and Property Taxes, Roy W. Bahl, Musharraf Cyan, and Sally Wallace

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Delivering and Financing Public Services in Metropolitan Areas, Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

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Toward Innovative, Cost-Effective, and Systemic Solutions to Improve Outcomes and Well-Being of Military Families Affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ami Klin, Amy M. Wetherby, Juliann Woods, Celine Saulnier, Jennifer L. Stapel-Wax, Cheryl Klaiman, Warren Jones, Emily Rubin, Lawrence Scahill, Nathan Call, Karen Bearss, Chris Gunter, Charles Courtemanche, Anthony F. Lemieux, James C. Cox, David Mandell, James P. Van Decar, Ronald A. Miller, and Cherri L. Shireman

Publications from 2014

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A Retrospective on Taxation in Developing Countries: Will the Weakest Link Be Strengthened?, Roy W. Bahl

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Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World, Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

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Asymmetrically Dominated Choice Problems, the Isolation Hypothesis and Random Incentive Mechanisms, James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Ulrich Schmidt

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Consumer Learning and Hybrid Vehicle Adoption, Garth Heutel

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Subsidies, Garth Heutel

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Time Preferences and Consumer Behavior, Garth Heutel, David Bradford, Charles Courtemanche, Patrick McAlvanah, and Christopher Ruhm

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Impatience, Incentives and Obesity, Garth Heutel, Charles Courtemanche, and Patrick McAlvanah

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The Impact of Air Temperature on Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthcare Cost in the Medicare Population, Garth Heutel, Nolan H. Miller, and David Molitor

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La Descentralización Tributaria a las Comunidades Autónomas en España: Desafíos y Soluciones, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Policies on Income Disttribution: Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Violeta Vulovic, and Blanca Moreno Dodson

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A Tale of Two Cities? The Heterogeneous Impact of Medicaid Managed Care, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz, and Jeffery C. Talbert

Publications from 2013

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Poor Face a Public Policy Challenge: A Commentary, Roy W. Bahl

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The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas, Roy W. Bahl

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Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice, Roy W. Bahl and Richard Bird

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Governing and Financing Metropolitan Areas in the Developing World, Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel

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Coping with Rising Inequality in Asia: How Effective Are Fiscal Policies, Iris Claus, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Violeta Vulovic

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An international perspective on the determinants of local government fragmentation, Juan Luis Gomez-Reino and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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Do Companies View Bribes as a Tax? Evidence on the Tradeoff between Corporate Taxes and Corruption in the Location of FDI, Timothy Goodspeed, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Li Zhang

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Environmental Macroeconomics: Environmental Policy, Business Cycles, and Directed Technical Change, Garth Heutel and Carolyn Fischer

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Incidence and Environmental Effects of Distortionary Subsidies, Garth Heutel and David L. Kelly

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Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality, Garth Heutel and Christopher J. Ruhm

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The Investment Returns of Nonprofit Organizations, Part I, Garth Heutel and Richard Zeckhauser

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The Investment Returns of Nonprofit Organizations, Part II, Garth Heutel and Richard Zeckhauser

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Measuring the extent of fiscal decentralisation: An application to the United States, Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Andrey Timofeev

Publications from 2012

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Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Peru, Gustavo J. Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Cristian Sepulveda

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Clocks and Trees: Isomorphic Dutch Auctions and Centipede Games, James C. Cox and Duncan James

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Bayesian Approach to Zero-Inflated Bivariate Ordered Probit Regression Model, with an Application to Tobacco Use, Shiferaw Gurmu and Getachew A. Dagne

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Crowding Out and Crowding In of Private Donations and Government Grants, Garth Heutel

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Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?, Garth Heutel, Don Fullerton, and Gilbert E. Metcalf

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Government Fiscal Policies and Redistribution in Asian Countries, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Iris Claus, and Violeta Vulovic

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Intergovernmental transfers: a policy reform perspective, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

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Explaining property tax collections in developing countries: the case of Latin America, Cristian Sepulveda and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Publications from 2011

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Financing Metropolitan Areas, Roy W. Bahl

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Financing Subnational Governments with Decentralized Taxes, Roy W. Bahl

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Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Public Finance: What Is Next on the Reform Agenda?, Roy W. Bahl

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Tax Assignment: Does the Practice Match the Theory?, Roy W. Bahl and Musharraf Cyan

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Budget Making and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan, Roy W. Bahl, Musharraf Cyan, and Sally Wallace

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Challenges to Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan: The Revenue Assignment Dimension, Roy W. Bahl, Musharraf Cyan, and Sally Wallace

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Regulatory Impact Analyses of Environmental Justice Effects, Spencer Banzhaf

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Reining in Provincial Fiscal ‘Owners’: Decentralization in Lao PDR, Juan Luiz Gomez-Reino, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Cristian Sepulveda

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How should environmental policy respond to business cycles? Optimal policy under persistent productivity shocks, Garth Heutel

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Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency, Garth Heutel

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Fiscal Decentralization in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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Local Finance in Latin America, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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Philippines: Designing a Local Government Enhancement Fund, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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Taxation in Asia, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: Issues in Theory and Challenges in Practice, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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Conclusion. Local Government Finance: The Challenges of the 21st Century, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Paul Smoke

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Introduction. Local Government Finance: The Challenges of the 21st Century., Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Paul Smoke

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Decentralizing Egypt: Not Just Another Economic Reform, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev

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Direct versus indirect taxation: trends, theory, and economic significance, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Violeta Vulovic, and Yongzheng Liu

Publications from 2010

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Conditional vs. Unconditional Grants: The Case of Developing Countries, Roy W. Bahl

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Financing Subnational Governments / Financiación de las Haciendas Subcentrales, Roy W. Bahl

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Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Local Governments in India: A Case Study of West Bengal State, Roy W. Bahl, Geeta Sethi, and Sally Wallace

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Whither the Property Tax: New Perspectives on a Fiscal Mainstay, Roy W. Bahl, Jorge Martinez Vazquez, and Joan Youngman

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A New Paradigm for Property Taxation in Developing Countries, Roy W. Bahl and Sally Wallace

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Trust with Private and Common Property: Effects of Stronger Property Right Entitlements, James C. Cox and Daniel T. Hall

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Plant vintages, grandfathering, and environmental policy, Garth Heutel

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Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices, Garth Heutel and Don Fullerton

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The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates, Garth Heutel and Don Fullerton

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La Descentralizacion Tributaria En Las Comunidades Autonomas de Regimen Comun: Un Proceso Inacabado. (Tax Decentralization in the Autonomous Communities: An Unfinished Process. With English Summary.).”, Santiago Lago-Peñas and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Publications from 2009

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Do Tax Amnesties Work? The Revenue Effects of Tax Amnesties during the Transition in the Russian Federation, James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Sally Wallace

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Property Tax Reform in Developing and Transition Countries, Roy W. Bahl

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Urban Property Tax Potential in India, Om Prakash Mathur, Debdulal Thakur, Nilesh Rajadhyaksha, and Roy W. Bahl

Publications from 2008

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Local Government Fiscal Competition in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia, Francisco Javier Arze del Granado, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Rentanida Renata Simatupang

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Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization: A Developing Country Perspective, Roy W. Bahl

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Pillars of Fiscal Decentralization, Roy W. Bahl

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Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward, Roy W. Bahl and Richard M. Bird

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Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward, Roy W. Bahl and Richard M. Bird

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The Determinants of Revenue Performance, Roy W. Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

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The Property Tax in Practice, Roy W. Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Joan Youngman

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The Property Tax in Developing Countries: Current Practice and Prospects, Roy W. Bahl and Jorge Martinez Vazquez

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Pakistan: Provincial Government Taxation, Roy W. Bahl, Sally Wallace, and Musharraf Cyan

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Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability, Richard M. Bird and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez