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Journal Articles

2024

1. Do what we did last year, but do not stray too far from the pack: A behavioral public finance approach to municipal cash reserves
   Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 64, (3), 786-803

2022

2. Accounting for the State Fixed Effect for Municipal Cash Reserves: The Role of Financial and Institutional Variables
   Public Finance Review, 2022, 50, (2), 169-205 View citations (1)

2017

3. Is a Good Normative Model of Public Spending Run Backward a Good Positive Model?
   Public Budgeting & Finance, 2017, 37, (2), 35-57 View citations (1)

2016

4. A Replication Study of “Why Do Cities Hoard Cash?†(The Accounting Review 2009)
   Public Finance Review, 2016, 44, (5), 681-687

2015

5. How Government Creates Value?
   Economic Themes, 2015, 53, (4), 449-466 View citations (1)
6. It's spending that matters: From robust control theory to practical heuristics
   OECD Journal on Budgeting, 2015, 14, (3), 1-14 View citations (1)
7. The Government Finance Database: A Common Resource for Quantitative Research in Public Financial Analysis
   PLOS ONE, 2015, 10, (6), 1-22 View citations (18)
8. Understanding and Creating Public Value: Business is the engine, government the flywheel (and also the regulator)
   Public Management Review, 2015, 17, (4), 565-586 View citations (3)

2013

9. Dispelling fear and loathing in government acquisition: A proposal for cultivational governance in dod source selections
   Journal of Public Procurement, 2013, 13, (03), 289-314

2012

10. Debate: Financial panic, economic threat, and sovereign debt crises
    Public Money & Management, 2012, 32, (3), 164-165

2010

11. The Fox and the Henhouse: On the Wisdom of GAO Audits of the Federal Reserve
    The Economists' Voice, 2010, 7, (4), 3

2009

12. A better budget rule
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009, 28, (3), 463-478 View citations (4)
13. Editorial and Debates
    Public Money & Management, 2009, 29, (4), 203-208

2007

14. The Oxford handbook of public management
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2007, 26, (1), 201-204

2001

15. Effects of key state policies on private colleges and universities: sustaining private-sector capacity in the face of the higher education access challenge
    Economics of Education Review, 2001, 20, (6), 517-531 View citations (1)

1997

16. Budgeting for results: Perspectives on public expenditure management; Managerialism and the public services: Cuts or cultural change in the 1990s?; Ansätze einer wirkungsorientierten verwaltungsführung: Von der idee des new public managements (NPM) zum konkreten gestaltungsmodell; The prospects for reinventing government, and bureaucrats in business: The economics and politics of government ownership
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1997, 16, (1), 165-176
17. Culture and the Environment in the Pacific Northwest
    American Political Science Review, 1997, 91, (4), 885-897 View citations (34)
18. The Cost of Regulation
    Interfaces, 1997, 27, (3), 22-28
19. The state of public management
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1997, 16, (3), 484-489 View citations (1)

1996

20. Defense conversion: Transforming the arsenal of democracy, by Jacques S. Gansler. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995, 277 pp., $25.00 cloth
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1996, 15, (4), 691-693

1990

21. Biased budget forecasts
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1990, 14, (3), 425-434 View citations (1)

1989

22. State investment pools defended: Sensible management, not gambling
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1989, 8, (2), 325-328

1988

23. Budget makers as agents: A preliminar investigation of discretionary behavior under state-contingent rewards
    Public Choice, 1988, 58, (1), 3-20 View citations (2)

1987

24. Taking full advantage of state investment pools
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1987, 7, (2), 353-356

1986

25. Controllership in the public sector
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1986, 5, (3), 547-571 View citations (4)
26. Reform of budget control in higher education
    Economics of Education Review, 1986, 5, (2), 147-158
27. Reform of budget control: Reply
    Economics of Education Review, 1986, 5, (2), 165-166

1985

28. Regulatory Decision Making: The Virginia State Corporation Commission. By Laurence J. O'Toole and Robert S. Montjoy. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 389. $32.50.)
    American Political Science Review, 1985, 79, (3), 853-854

1984

29. Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis in the Canadian-American Relationship. By Stephen Clarkson. (Toronto: James Lorimer, 1982. Pp. xv + 383. $19.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.)
    American Political Science Review, 1984, 78, (2), 560-560
30. How to stay within the budget using per-unit subsidies
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1984, 3, (2), 285-288
31. Looking out for No. 1: Incumbency and Interest Group Politics
    Canadian Public Policy, 1984, 10, (2), 239-244 View citations (1)

1983

32. Regulation and Its Reform. By Stephen Breyer. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 472. $25.00.)
    American Political Science Review, 1983, 77, (2), 462-462

1982

33. Closeness counts in horseshoes and dancing... and elections
    Public Choice, 1982, 38, (3), 305-316 View citations (3)

1981

34. A regulatory model of governmental coordinating activities in the higher education sector
    Economics of Education Review, 1981, 1, (1), 27-52 View citations (1)
35. Utility-maximizing behavior in organized anarchies: An empirical investigation of the Breneman thesis
    Public Choice, 1981, 36, (1), 17-32

1979

36. American Legislative Decision Making and the Size Principle
    American Political Science Review, 1979, 73, (4), 1100-1108

1977

37. Aircraft Landing Fees: A Game Theory Approach
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1977, 8, (1), 186-204 View citations (98)