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 2014
Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? The Role of Fiscal Equalization, Yongzheng Liu
Do Government Preferences Matter for Tax Competition?, Yongzheng Liu
Tax Structure and Corruption: Cross-Country Evidence, Yongzheng Liu and Haibo Feng
Inter-Jurisdictional Tax Competition In China, Yongzheng Liu and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Public Input Competition under Stackelberg Equilibrium: A Note, Yongzheng Liu and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Falling Short: Intergovernmental Transfers in China, Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Baoyun Qiao
Fiscal Decentralization, Equalization, and Intra-Provincial Inequality in China, Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Alfred M. Wu
Capital Infrastructure and Equity Objectives in Decentralized Systems, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev
But Most of All We Love Each Other: Does Social Cohesion Pay off? Evidence from FDI Flows to Middle Income Countries, Wasseem Mina
The Political Economy of Local Infrastructure Planning, Leonardo Romeo and Paul Smoke
Rural Bound: Determinants of Metro to Non-Metro Migration in the U.S, Anil Rupasingha, Yongzheng Liu, and Mark Partridge
Decentralized Provision of Public Infrastructure and Corruption, Anwar Shah
Trends and Quality of Decentralized Public Investment, Lorena Vineula
Rural Roads: Multi-Tier Monitoring of Infrastructure: Top Down and Bottom Up, Ha. T.T. Vu and Robert D. Ebel
Submissions from 2013
Estimating Fiscal Health of Cities: A Methodological Framework for Developing Countries, Simanti Bandyopadhyay
Property Tax Reforms in India: A Comparison of Delhi and Bangalore, Simanti Bandyopadhyay
Are User Charges Underutilsed in Indian Cities? An Analysis for Delhi, Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Debraj Bagchi
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes, Richard M. Bird
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries, Richard M. Bird
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection, Richard M. Bird
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract?, Richard M. Bird and Eric M. Zolt
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract?, Richard M. Bird and Eric M. Zolt
The Impact of Tax Incentives to Stimulate Investment in South Africa, Estian Calitz, Sally Wallace, and Le Roux Burrows
Measuring tax effort: Does the estimation approach matter and should effort be linked to expenditure goals?, Musharraf Cyan, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Violeta Vulovic
A Behavioral Local Public Finance Perspective on the Renter’s Illusion Hypothesis, Roberto Dell'Anno and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
“The Impact of Micro-simulation and CGE modeling on Tax Reform and Tax Advice in Developing Countries”: A Survey of Alternative Approaches and an Application to Pakistan, Andrew Feltenstein, Luciana Teagno Lopes, Janet Porras Mendoza, and Sally Wallace
Taxing the Small: Fostering Tax Compliance Among Small Enterprises in Developing Countries, William F. Fox and Matthew N. Murray
An International Perspective on the Determinants of Local Government Fragmentation, Juan Luiz Gomez-Reino and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Making the Property Tax Work, Roy Kelly
On the Size and Determinants of Inter-regional Redistribution in European Countries over the Period 1995-2009, Santiago Lago-Penas, Albino Prada, and Alberto Vaquero
Fiscal Decentralization in Peru: A Perspective on Recent Developments and Future Challenges, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Reforming Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Consumption: Killing Several Birds with One Stone, Charles E. McLure Jr.
A Generalization of the Pfähler-Lambert Decomposition, Jorge Onrubia, Fidel Picos, and Maria del Carmen Rodado
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example, Enid Slack and Richard M. Bird
Why Theory and Practice are Different: The Gap Between Principles and Reality in Subnational Revenue Systems, Paul Smoke
Beyond FDI: The Influence of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Debt, Mina Wesseem
Submissions from 2012
Metropolitan City Finances in India: Options for A New Fiscal Architecture, Roy W. Bahl
Performance Evaluation of Urban Local Governments: A Case for Indian Cities, Simanti Bandyopadhyay
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance, Richard M. Bird
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress, Richard M. Bird
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One, Richard M. Bird
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research?, Richard M. Bird
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country, Richard M. Bird
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India, Richard M. Bird and M. Govinda Rao
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes?, Richard M. Bird and Michael Smart
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy, Richard M. Bird and J. Scott Wilkie
Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty, Gustavo J. Canavire-Bacarreza and Merlin M. Hanauer
Reexamining The Determinants Of Fiscal Decentralization: What Is The Role Of Geography?, Gustavo J. Canavire-Bacarreza and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Peru, Gustavo J. Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Cristian F. Sepulveda
Small is Different Size, Political Representation and Governance, Nicholas Charron, Jose Fernandez-Albertos, and Victor Lapuente
Voluntary amalgamation of local governments: the Swiss debate in the European context, Bernard Dafflon
The Topsy-Turvy Sharing of the Gaming Tax Field in Canada, 1970-2010: Provincial Payments, Federal Withdrawal, Etienne Desjardins, Melina Longpre, and Francois Vaillancourt
Options for Rationalizing Local Government Structure: A Policy Agenda, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt, and Bligh Grant
A Computational General Equilibrium Approach to Sectoral Analysis for Tax Potential: An Application to Pakistan, Andrew Feltenstein and Musharraf Cyan
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: the Efficiency Effect of Taxes, Transfers and Fiscal Illusion, Julio Lopez-Laborda and Antoni Zabalza
The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Policies on Income Distribution: Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Blanca Moreno-Dodson, and Violeta Vulovic
Toward a More General Theory of Revenue Assignments, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian F. Sepulveda
Propensity to Invest and the Additionality of Capital Transfers: A Country Panel Perspective, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev
Government Fiscal Policies and Redistribution in Asian Countries, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Violeta Vulovic
Local Government Cooperation for Joint Provision: The Experiences of Brazil and Spain with Inter-Municipal Consortia, Luiz de Mello and Santiago Lago-Penas
Rethinking the Political Economy of Decentralization: How Elections and Parties Shape the Provision of Local Public Goods, Raul A. Ronce-Rodriguez, Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Eunice Heredia-Ortiz
On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain, Pablo Simon-Cosno, Santiago Lago-Penas, and Alberto Vaquero
Does Local Government Size Matter? Privatization and Hybrid Systems of Local Service Delivery, Mildred E. Warner
Submissions from 2011
Taxing Soft Drinks, Roy W. Bahl
Finances of Urban Local Bodies in Jharkhand: Some Issues and Comparisons, Simanti Bandyopadhyay
Decentralization in Jharkhand: Some Implications for Urban Service Delivery, Simanti Bandyopadhyay, O.P. Bohra, and Aishana Sharma
Public Infrastructure Investment, Output Dynamics, and Balanced Budget Fiscal Rules, Pedro R.D. Bom and Jenny Ligthart
Budget Transparency in Local Governments: An Empirical Analysis, Jose Caamano-Alegre, Santiago Lago-Penas, Francisco Reyes-Santias, and Aurora Santiago-Boubeta
In Government We Trust: The Role of Fiscal Decentralization, Jenny Ligthart and Peter van Oudheusden
Municipal Finances in Latin America: Features, Issues, and Prospects, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
An International Perspective on the Determinants of Local Government Fragmentation, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Juan Luiz Gomez-Reino
Do Companies View Bribes as a Tax? Evidence on the Trade-off between Corporate Taxes and Corruption in the Location of FDI, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Timothy Goodspeed, and Li Zhang
Designing the Local Government Enhancement Fund for the Philippines, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Yongzheng Liu
Explaining Property Tax Collections in Developing Countries: The Case of Latin America, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian F. Sepulveda
Intergovernmental Transfers in Latin America: A Policy Reform Perspective, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian F. Sepulveda
Report on the Bihar PRI Finance Study, Mark Rider, Prabhat P. Ghosh, and Shaibal Gupta
The Design of a Performance-Oriented Fiscal Transfer in West Bengal, Andrey Timofeev
The Taxation of Gambling In Africa, Francois Vaillancourt
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach, Jamie Vazquez-Caro and Richard M. Bird
Status of PRI Finances in West Bengal Final Report, Sally Wallace
Program Evaluation, Performance Budgeting and PART: The U.S. Federal Government Experience, Katherine Willoughby and Paul Benson
GP Financial Management Capacity and PRI Financial Management Reform Efforts in West Bengal, Katherine Willoughby and Juan Luiz Gomez-Reino
The New Spanish System of Intergovernmental Transfers, Antoni Zabalza and Julio López-Laborda
Submissions from 2010
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity?, Richard M. Bird, Francois Villancourt, and Edison Roy-Cesar
Public Policies and FDI Location: Differences Between Developing and Developed Countries, Timothy Goodspeed, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Li Zhang
The Consequences of Fiscal Decentralization on Poverty and Income Inequality, Cristian F. Sepulveda and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez