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Working Papers

2016

1. Relative Tax Rates, Proximity and Cigarette Tax Noncompliance: Evidence from a National Sample of Littered Cigarette Packs
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Relative Tax Rates, Proximity, and Cigarette Tax Noncompliance: Evidence from a National Sample of Littered Cigarette Packs, Public Finance Review (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
2. What determines the level of local business property taxes?
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

2013

3. Economics of Tobacco Toolkit, Tool 7: Understand, Measure, and Combat Tobacco Smuggling
   World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

Journal Articles

2024

1. Distributional, tax rate, and revenue implications of property tax homestead exemptions
   Public Budgeting & Finance, 2024, 44, (4), 195-203

2021

2. Is Tax Competition Strategic? Spatial Distributions of Business Property Tax Abatements in the Chicago Suburbs
   Economic Development Quarterly, 2021, 35, (1), 66-83

2020

3. Do local governments use business tax incentives to compensate for high business property taxes?
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, 81, (C) View citations (3)
4. Outstanding Paper Award of 2019
   Public Finance Review, 2020, 48, (3), 283-284

2019

5. Relative Tax Rates, Proximity, and Cigarette Tax Noncompliance: Evidence from a National Sample of Littered Cigarette Packs
   Public Finance Review, 2019, 47, (2), 276-311 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Relative Tax Rates, Proximity and Cigarette Tax Noncompliance: Evidence from a National Sample of Littered Cigarette Packs, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2016

6. What Happened to Illinois’ Economy Following the January 2011 Tax Increases? A Midwestern Comparison
   Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2016, 46, (01)

2015

7. A Replication of “Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Manufacturing
   Public Finance Review, 2015, 43, (2), 185-205 View citations (1)
8. Do Troubled Times Invite Cloudy Budget Reporting? The Determinants of General Fund Expenditure Share in U.S. States
   Public Budgeting & Finance, 2015, 35, (4), 68-89 View citations (4)

2014

9. Land use and rent gradients with a monopoly vendor and two central business districts
   The Annals of Regional Science, 2014, 53, (3), 745-760
10. Tax Increment Financing and the Great Recession
    National Tax Journal, 2014, 67, (3), 697-718 View citations (1)

2013

11. Using Littered Pack Data to Estimate Cigarette Tax Avoidance in Nyc
    National Tax Journal, 2013, 66, (3), 635-668 View citations (12)

2012

12. Focus Issue
    Economic Development Quarterly, 2012, 26, (4), 283-284
13. The Impact of an Urban WalMart Store on Area Businesses
    Economic Development Quarterly, 2012, 26, (4), 321-333 View citations (8)

2011

14. Do Tax Increment Finance Districts Stimulate Growth in Real Estate Values?
    Real Estate Economics, 2011, 39, (2), 221-250 View citations (20)

2010

15. Housing appreciation (depreciation) and owners' welfare
    Journal of Housing Economics, 2010, 19, (1), 66-73 View citations (1)
16. The Micro-geography of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Littered Cigarette Packs in Chicago
    American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2, (2), 61-84 View citations (49)

2009

17. The Relationship between Tax Increment Finance and Municipal Land Annexation
    Land Economics, 2009, 85, (4), 598-613 View citations (3)

2007

18. Spillovers from tax increment financing districts: Implications for housing price appreciation
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37, (2), 259-281 View citations (19)

2006

19. A Theoretical Analysis of Medicaid Supplantation
    Public Finance Review, 2006, 34, (1), 33-59
20. Illinois' Response to Rising Residential Property Values: An Assessment Growth Cap in Cook County
    National Tax Journal, 2006, 59, (3), 707-16 View citations (13)

2004

21. Convergence in Government Spending: Theory and Cross‐Country Evidence
    Kyklos, 2004, 57, (4), 587-620 View citations (18)

2003

22. Does Tax Increment Financing Raise Urban Industrial Property Values?
    Urban Studies, 2003, 40, (10), 2001-2021 View citations (22)

2001

23. The Impact of Property Taxes and Property Tax Classification on Business Activity in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
    Journal of Regional Science, 2001, 41, (4), 757-777 View citations (25)

2000

24. Did Distortionary Sales Taxation Contribute to the Growth of the Service Sector?
    National Tax Journal, 2000, 53, (1), 125-42 View citations (6)
25. The Effects of Tax Increment Financing on Economic Development
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2000, 47, (2), 306-328 View citations (50)

1998

26. How many parking spaces does it take to create one additional transit passenger?
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1998, 28, (5), 565-584 View citations (20)

1997

27. Subsidized Parking and Neighborhood Nuisances
    Journal of Urban Economics, 1997, 41, (2), 198-201 View citations (7)

1995

28. Excess Commuting in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Measurement and Policy Simulations
    Urban Studies, 1995, 32, (1), 69-85 View citations (40)

1994

29. Do Cigarette Excise Tax Rates Maximize Revenue?
    Economic Inquiry, 1994, 32, (3), 419-28 View citations (13)

1992

30. Trade and investment relations among the United States, Canada, and Japan: (Ed.), the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989. 448 pp., $55.00, cloth
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1992, 6, (2), 199-205

1991

31. Public capital and regional output: Another look at some Japanese and American data
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1991, 20, (4), 437-458 View citations (17)

1986

32. The Distributional Effects of New Jersey's Tax and Expenditure Limitation
    Land Economics, 1986, 62, (4), 353-361 View citations (1)

Chapters

2003

1. The effect of tax increment financing on land use
   Chapter 2 in The Property Tax, Land Use and Land Use Regulation, 2003 View citations (5)