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Policy Responses to Tax Competition
-With James Poterba and Owen Zidar
-University of Chicago Press

Publications

The Effects of Adopting a Value Added Tax on Firms
-With Laura Zimmermann
-Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Wealth Tax Mobility and Tax Coordination
-With Dirk Foremny and Clara Martínez-Toledano.
-Accepted, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Tax Competition with Intermunicipal Cooperation
-With Marie-Laure Breuillé and Julie Le Gallo
-Accepted, National Tax Journal.
Remittance Rules and the Distribution of Local Tax Revenue: Evidence After Wayfair
-With Iuliia Shybalkina
-Accepted, National Tax Journal.
Limits to Competition: Strategies for Promoting Jurisdictional Cooperation
-Forthcoming, Policy Responses to Tax Competition, University of Chicago Press.
Policy Responses to Tax Competition: An Introduction
-With James Poterba and Owen Zidar
-Forthcoming, Policy Responses to Tax Competition, University of Chicago Press.
Hidden Havens:State and Local Governments as Tax Havens?
-Accepted, Handbook on the Economics of Tax Havens.
Fiscal Federalism in the Twenty-First Century
-With Jan K. Brueckner and Marius Brülhart
-Annual Review of Economics., Volume 16, August 2024, Pages 429-454
State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work
-With Kenneth Tester
-American Economic Journal: Economic Policy., Volume 16, Number 1, February 2024, Pages 447-481.
Taxing Uber
-With Weihua Zhao
-Journal of Public Economics., Volume 221, May 2023, 104862.
Online Shopping Can Redistribute Local Tax Revenue from Urban to Rural America
-With Iuliia Shybalkina
-Journal of Public Economics, Volume 219 (2023), 104818.
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics
-With William H. Hoyt and John D. Wilson
-The Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 60, Number 4 (2022), Pages 1378-1455.
Will the Remote Work Revolution Undermine Progressive State Income Taxes?
-With Kirk Stark
-Virginia Tax Review, Volume 42, Number 1 (Summer 2022), Pages 47-152.
-Gated print version (no color).
Redistribution in a Globalized World
-With Dirk Foremny
-Journal of Economics and Statistics, Volume 242, Number 5-6 (2022), Pages 551-567.
Public Finance in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis
-With Aline Bütikofer
-International Tax and Public Finance, Volume 29 (2022), Pages 1349-1372.
The Internet as a Tax Haven?
-American Economic Journal: Economic Policy: Volume 13, Number 4 (2021), Pages 1-35.
-For a nontechnical summary, see "Remittance Rules and Tax Rates" in Austaxpolicy.
A Snapshot of Public Finance Research from Immediately Prior to the Pandemic: IIPF 2020
-With Ronald B. Davies, Sara LaLumia, Nadine Riedel, and Kimberley Scharf
-International Tax and Public Finance, Volume 28, Number 5 (2021), Pages 1276-1297.
Taxing Goods and Services in a Digital Era
-With William F. Fox
-National Tax Journal: Volume 74, Number 1 (2021), Pages 257-301.
Technology and Tax Systems
-With David E. Wildasin
-Journal of Public Economics: Volume 185 (2020), 104082.
-More technical version here.
Dynamics of Policy Adoption with State Dependence
-With Gregory A. Trandel
-Regional Science and Urban Economics: Volume 79 (2019), 103471.
Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms
-With Dirk Foremny
-Review of Economics and Statistics: Volume 101, Issue 2 (2019), Pages 214-232.
-Media Coverage: The Economist podcast, Le Monde.
Taxation in the Aviation Industry: Insights and Challenges
-With Quinton White and Jon Williams
-Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board: Volume 2673, Issue 9 (2019), Pages 666-673.
Will Destination-based Taxes Be Fully Exploited When Available? An Application to the U.S. Commodity Tax System
-With Mohammed Mardan
-Journal of Public Economics: Volume 169 (2019), Pages 128-143.
Commuting and Taxes: Theory, Empirics, and Welfare Implications
-With William H. Hoyt
-The Economic Journal: Volume 128 (616), Pages 2969-3007.
Fiscal Decentralization and Mobility: Evidence from Spain's Income Tax System
-With Dirk Foremny
-ifo DICE Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons: Volume 16, Issue 2 (2018), Pages 38-44.
Taxes in an e-Commerce Generation
-With William F. Fox
-International Tax and Public Finance: Volume 24, Issue 5 (2017), Pages 903-926.
Local Fiscal Competition: An Application to Sales Taxation with Multiple Federations
-Journal of Urban Economics: Volume 91 (2016), Pages 122-138.
The Tax Gradient: Spatial Aspects of Fiscal Competition
-American Economic Journal: Economic Policy: Volume 7, Issue 2 (2015), Pages 1-29.
Competition and Subnational Governments: Tax Competition, Competition in Urban Areas, and Education Competition
-With William F. Fox and Joel Slemrod
-National Tax Journal: Volume 68, Issue 3S (2015), pp. 701-734.
LOST in America: Evidence on Local Sales Taxes from National Panel Data
-Regional Science and Urban Economics: Volume 49 (2014), Pages 147-163.
Over the Borderline: How the Characteristics of Lines Shape Optimal Tax Policy
Economics Letters: Volume 119, Issue 2 (2013), Pages 113-116.
Games Within Borders: Are Geographically Differentiated Taxes Optimal?
International Tax and Public Finance: Volume 19, Issue 4 (2012), Pages 574-597.

Blogs and Policy Work

Remittance Rules and Tax Rates, Austaxpolicy, June 2021.
El Dumping Fiscal de Madrid Sí Afecta al Resto de España, Agenda Pública, May 2021.
-With Dirk Foremny and Clara Martínez-Toledano.
¿Se mudan los ricos para pegar menos Impuesto sobre el Patrimonio?, Nada es Gratis, December 2020.
-With Dirk Foremny and Clara Martínez-Toledano.
The Effect of Regional Taxes on the Mobility of Top Income Taxpayers, InfoIEB, May 2019.
-With Dirk Foremny.
India's Commodity Tax System Leads to Low Compliance, IGC Blog, 2018.
-With Laura Zimmermann
Kentucky State Narrative, Property Tax Digest by State, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2016.
Local Sales Taxes Can Reduce the Differences Between Taxes at State Borders, LSE American Politics and Policy, July 2016.

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Dissertation: Essays on the Theory and Empirical Evidence Regarding Spatial Tax Competition