The International Center for Public Policy (ICePP) brings together the strengths of cutting-edge technical expertise, extensive real-world policy experience, and solid project management capabilities in over 70 developing and transition economies around the world. Our faculty are leading experts in economics and public policy and have authored books, academic and technical journal articles, and have extensive experience in designing and implementing technical assistance and training programs. The exposure that ICePP brings to the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS), as well as the interaction with government leaders and policy makers from around the world, enriches the academic environment and deepens the school’s commitment to resolving international policy challenges. To learn more about ICEPP and AYSPS, visit https://icepp.gsu.edu and https://aysps.gsu.edu.
Submissions from 2021
Welfare Benefits in Highly Decentralized FiscalSystems: Evidence on Interregional Mimicking, Luis Ayala, Ana Herrero, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Performances in COVID 19 Management Across Countries: Do Subnational Finances Matter?, Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Sujana Kabiraj, and Subrata Majumder
The Effect of Crises on Fiscal and Political Recentralization: Large-Panel Evidence, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Pablo Evia Salas, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
The Fiscal Architecture of Subnational Governments in Federal Nepal, Khim Lal Devkota
A General Equilibrium Model of Value Added Tax Evasion: An Application to Pakistan, Andrew Feltenstein, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Biplab Datta, and Sohani Fatehin
Evidence on Economies of Scale in Local Public Service Provision: A Meta-Analysis, Juan Luis Gómez-Reino, Santiago Lago-Peñas, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Sustainable Development and the Optimal Level of Fiscal Expenditure Decentralization, Jin Hui and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
When Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to Inclusive Growth?, Hyojung Kang and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Do You Know to Whom You Pay Your Taxes?: The Case of Decentralized Spain, Julio López-Laborda, Fernando Rodrigo, and Eduardo Sanz-Arcega
Adapting Fiscal Decentralization Design to Combat Climate Change, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Successful Tax Reforms in the Recent International Experience: Lessons in Political Economy and the Nuts and Bolts of Increasing Country Tax Revenue Effort, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Fiscal Policies, Decentralization, and Life Satisfaction, Manuela Ortega Gil
Electoral Accountability and Fiscal Federalism:The Case of Peru, Janet Porras Mendoza, Charles R. Hankla, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Submissions from 2020
The Impact of Plastic Money Use on VAT Compliance: Evidence from EU Countries, Amakoe D. Alognon, Antonios M. Koumpias, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
The Distributional Effects of Devolution in the U.S. Welfare Reform, Luis Ayala, Elena Bárcena-Martín, and Jorge Martínez-Vázquez
Towards Sustainable Cities: Lessons from Urban Decentralization in India and Bangladesh, Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Firdousi Naher, and Aishna Sharma
Assessing the Performance of Kolkata Municipal Corporation: Implications for Service Delivery, Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Aishna Sharma
Trust in Government Institutions and Tax Morale, Antonios M. Koumpias, Gabriel Leonardo, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Fiscal Decentralization and Interregional Capital Misallocation: Evidence from China, Zheng Li and Jorge Martínez-Vázquez
Financial VAT May Improve Trade Openness, Julio López-Laborda and Guillermo Peña
The Politics of Fiscal Federalism: Building a Stronger Decentralization Theorem, Raúl A. Ponce-Rodríguez, Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Eunice Heredia-Ortiz
Preconditions for the Wealth of Nations over Time: A Note, Oriol Sabaté and Eduardo Sanz-Arcega
Do Countries Really Deviate from the Optimal Tax System?, Cristian Sepulveda
Fiscal Decentralization and Life Satisfaction in Chile, Leonardo Letelier S, José Luis Sáez Lozano, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Submissions from 2019
Welfare Benefits in Highly Decentralized Fiscal Systems: Evidence on Interterritorial Mimicking, Luis Ayala and Ana Herrero
Free Trade Agreements and World Obesity, Michele Baggio and Alberto Chong
Recreational Marijuana Laws and Junk Food Consumption: Evidence Using Border Analysis and Retail Sales Data, Michele Baggio and Alberto Chong
Neighborhoods, Social Class, and Reciprocity: Evidence Using Representative Artefactual Data from Latin America, Arlette Beltrán, Alberto Chong, and Mariano Montoya
National Income and Trust, Markus Brückner, Alberto Chong, and Mark Gradstein
Identifying and Disentangling the Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Growth, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Bauyrzhan Yedgenov
Carbon Taxes and Stranded Assets: Evidence from Washington State, Stefano Carattini and Suphi Sen
Does Social Conflict in Rural Regions Decrease Firm Ownership? Evidence from the Mining Sector in Latin America, Alberto Chong and Paul Haslam
Environmental Disasters and Mental Health: Evidence from Oil Spills in the Peruvian Amazon, Alberto Chong and Carla Srebot
Does Trade Liberalization Foster Intimate Partner Violence?, Alberto Chong and Daniel Velásquez
Fiscal Decentralization and Public R&D Policy: A Country Panel Analysis, Daniel Gama e Colombo and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
What Accounts for the Education Gender Gap in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province?, Musharraf Cyan, Mark Rider, Michael Price, and Stephanie J. Roberts
The Impact of Media Campaigns on Tax Filing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pakistan, Antonios M. Koumpias and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Subnational Government Debt Governance: Lessons from Non-Asian Emerging Economies, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Yasin Civelek
Comparative Studies of Cross-border M&A and Greenfield Investments in Response to Changes in Tax Regulation and Administration of Host Economies, Gohar S. Sedrakyan
Time-saving Goods, Time Inequalities, and Optimal Taxation, Cristian F. Sepulveda
Submissions from 2018
Growth, Inequality, and Party Support: Valence and Positional Economic Voting, Ruth Dassonneville and Michael S. Lewis-Beck
The Global Crisis and Intergovernmental Relations: Revisiting the Centralisation-Decentralisation Debate Ten Years On, Luiz de Mello and João Tovar Jalles
Fees and Fines: An Economist's View of Who Should Pay, Robert D. Ebel
Intergovernmental Revenue Assignment and Mobilization Principles and Applications for Somalia, Robert D. Ebel
Decentralization and Intra-Country Transfers in the Great Recession: The Case of the EU, Timothy J. Goodspeed
Decentralization and Governance in Europe: Evidence from Different Expenditure Components, Andreas P. Kyriacou and Oriol Roca-Sagalés
Decentralization And Electoral Swings, Ignacio Lago and André Blais
Fiscal stability during the Great Recession:Putting decentralization design to the test, Santiago Lago-Peñas, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Agnese Sacchi
Fiscal Incentives and Local Tax Competition: Evidence from China, Yongzheng Liu, Bingyang Lv, Hang Tai, and Chenping Yang
A Theoretical Rationale for the Fiscal Gap Model of Equalization Transfers, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda
Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size: The Role of Democracy, Mo Qiao, Siying Ding, and Yongzheng Liu
Can Tax Regulation and Administration Practices Impact Foreign Direct Investments?, Gohar S. Sedrakyan
A net welfare benefit approach to optimal taxation, Cristian F. Sepulveda
Submissions from 2017
Why Won’t Workers Do Their Jobs? Labor Market Rigidity and Job Performance in the Public Sector, Alberto Chong and Angelo Cozzubo
Regulatory Protective Measures and Risky Behavior: Evidence from Ice Hockey, Alberto Chong and Pascual Restrepo
A Health Literacy RCT toward Improvement of Programmatic Outcomes of Tuberculosis Control in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, and Mark Rider
Building Trust in State through Legal Literacy: An RCT in the Tribal Areas & Frontier Regions of Pakistan, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, and Mark Rider
Building up Municipal Services from a Scratch: Immediate Gains in Citizen Perceptions and Level of Trust in Militancy Prone Tribal City of North-Western Pakistan, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, and Mark Rider
Peshawar Uplift: The Effect of Urban Development on Citizens’ Perceptions, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, and Mark Rider
Southern- Area Development Programme: How Communities Groups Function, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, and Mark Rider
What Determines Citizen Trust: Evaluating the Impact of Campaigns Highlighting Government Reforms, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, and Mark Rider
An Evaluation of Historical and Recent Government Programs to Promote Off-Season Vegetable Cultivation in FATA, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, Mark Rider, and Stephanie J. Roberts
Does a Modest Stipend Encourage Girls to Attend School beyond the 5th Class: Evidence from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan?, Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, Mark Rider, and Stephanie J. Roberts
Vertical Fiscal Imbalance and Local Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from China, Junxue Jia, Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Kewei Zhang
Internet and Income Inequality: A Research Note, Yongzheng Liu
The Effects of Presumptive Methods of Taxation on Revenue Mobilization in the Value, Gohar S. Sedrakyan
The Impact of Public Expenditures on Economic Growth in Two Very Different Countries: A comparative Analysis of Armenia and Spain, Gohar Samvel Sedrakyan and Laura Varela-Candamio
A note on time discretion and the welfare cost of lump-sum taxation, Cristian F. Sepulveda
Urban sprawl and local fiscal burden: analysing the Spanish case, Laura Varela-Candamio, Fernando Rubiera Morollón, and Gohar Sedrakyan
Cross-Country Differences in Corporate Tax Rates, Anti-Tax Avoidance Rules, and Base Erosion Profit Shifting, Giulia Zilio
Submissions from 2016
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution, Richard Bird and Michael Smart
The Determinants of Tax Morale in Pakistan, Musharraf Rasool Cyan, Antonios M. Koumpias, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
The Effects of Media Campaigns on Individual Attitudes towards Tax Compliance; Quasi-Experimental evidence from survey data in Pakistan, Musharraf R. Cyan, Antonios M. Koumpias, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
A Superior Instrument for the Role of Institutional Quality on Economic Development, Elizabeth Gooch, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Bauyrzhan Yedgenov
Politicians, bureaucrats, and tax morale: What shapes tax compliance attitudes?, Gabriel Leonardo and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Frozen In Time: The Much Needed Reform Of Expenditures Assignments In China, Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Baoyun Qiao
Submissions from 2015
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers, Richard M. Bird
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product?, Richard M. Bird
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue?, Richard M. Bird
International Debt Forgiveness: Who GetsPicked and Its Effect On The Tax Effort OfDeveloping Countries, Leanora Alecia Brown and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
The Poverty Implications of Alternative Tax Reforms: Some Countries Intuitive Results In An Application To Pakistan, Andrew Feltenstein, Carolina Mejia, David Newhouse, and Gohar Sedrakyan
Labor Market Flexibility and FDI Flows: Evidence from Oil-Rich GCC and Middle Income Countries, Wasseem Mina and Louis Jaeck
How large do multi-region models need to be?, Florenz Plassmann and Andrew Feltenstein
Submissions from 2014
Corruption and Firm Tax Evasion, James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Chandler McClellan
The Infrastructure Gap and Decentralization, Luis Andres, Dan Biller, and Jordan Schwartz
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice, Roy W. Bahl and Richard M. Bird
Municipal Finance in India: Some Critical Issues, Simanti Bandyopadhyay
Some New Thoughts on Performance Evaluation of Governments: An Application to Indian Cities, Simanti Bandyopadhyay
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality, Richard M. Bird
Investing in Health Infrastructure: How Decentralization Matters, Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt
Financing Infrastructure, Luiz de Mello and Douglas Sutherland
Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Growth in the Districts of Nepal, K. L. Devkota
Efficiency Cost of Fiscal Equalization:The Case of Belarus, Sebastian Eckardt, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Andrey Timofeev
Rural Roads: The Challenge of Decentralized Implementation, Simon D. Ellis and Aurelio Menendez
Tax Evasion, the Provision of Public Infrastructure, and Growth: A General Equilibrium Approach to Two Very Different Countries, Egypt and Mauritius, Andrew Feltenstein
Decentralization And Infrastructure: From Gaps To Solutions, Jonas Frank and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Coordination of Infrastructure Investment Across Levels of Government, Catherine Gamper and Claire Charbit
Educational Infrastructure, School Construction, & Decentralization in Developing Countries: Key Issues for an Understudied Area, Alec Ian Gershberg
Estimating the Personal Income Distribution in Spanish Municipalities Using Tax Micro-Data, Miriam Hortas-Rico, Jorge Onrubia, and Daniele Pacifico
Fiscal Competition versus Fiscal Harmonization: A Review of the Arguments, Krishanu Karmakar and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez