| Name: | David E. Wildasin |
| Position Type: | Chair |
| Appointment Start Date: | 08/16/00 |
| Appointment End Date: | |
| Area of Specialty: | Public finance, public economics; urban, regional, and international economics. |
| Summary Vita: | Univ. of Kentucky: Endowed Professor of Public Finance, Martin School of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics, 2000--; Director/ Faculty Research Fellow, Institute for Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, 2005- Author/co-author/editor of several books and more than 85 articles in professional journals and books. Research presentations in more than 200 professional conferences, seminars, workshops in US and abroad. |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. |
| Professional Affiliations: | Conference presentations: 2004: 1. CESifo/BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Third Munich Economic Summit on ``Social Union, Migration, and the EU Constitution: Integration at Risk.'' Presented ``Economic Integration and the Welfare State.'' 2. European Regional Science Association, annual meetings, Porto. Presented ``Fiscal Competition: Implications for Regional Science'', keynote address. 3. International Institute of Public Finance, annual meetings, Milan. Presented ``Competitive Fiscal Structures.'' 4. Kentucky Long Term Policy Research Center, annual meeting, Lexington. Presented ``Getting Ahead of the Curve: Fiscal Policy and Economic Performance in Kentucky.'' 2005: 1. Allied Social Science Associations, Philadelphia. Presented ``Competitive Fiscal Structures.'' 2. Liberty Fund conference on ``Free Trade, Liberty, and Globalization'', Tucson. Conference participant. 3. Council on Foreign Relations, conference on ``Skilled Migration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies'', New York. Presented ``Public Finance in an Era of Global Demographic Change: Fertility Busts, Migration Booms, and Public Policy.'' 4. Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, ``Workshop on Fiscal Federalism: Decentralization, Governance and Economic Growth,'' Barcelona. Presented ``Economic Integration: Implications for Equity, Efficiency, and Political Economy,'' keynote address. 5. Conference on ``Institutional Design of Federal Systems,'' Regensburg. Presented ``Emergent Research Questions in Federalism: Market Integration and Institutional Change,'' keynote address. Affiliations: Member of American Economic Association, Econometric Society, National Tax Association-Tax Institute of America. Editorial responsibilities for major professional journals and book series, including: CESifo Economic Studies, Finanzarchiv, German Econ. Rev., Int. Tax and Public Finance, J. Public Econ. Theory, J. Public Econ., J. Reg. Sci., J. Urban Econ., National Tax J., Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., Rev. Int. Econ., Contributions to Economic Analysis, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics. |
| Primary Research Focus: | public finance; urban, regional, and international public policy/public finance. |
| Key Contributions: | Numerous articles in professional journals, books. |
| Publications: | ``Pareto Efficiency in International Taxation,'' with M. Keen, American Economic Review 94(1), March 2004, 259--275. (Previously appeared as CESifo Working Paper No. 371, November, 2000.) To be reprinted in Rodney E. Falvey and Udo Kreickemeier (eds.), Recent Developments in International Trade Theory (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), forthcoming. ``Capital Tax Competition: Bane or Boon?,'' with J.D. Wilson (principal author), Journal of Public Economics 88(6), June, 2004, 1065--1091. ``The Institutions of Federalism: Toward an Analytical Framework,'' National Tax Journal 62(2), Part 1, June 2004, 247--272. (Morris Beck Paper for 2004.) ``Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration,'' in Richard G. Harris and Thomas Lemieux (eds.), emph{Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages} (Calgary: University of Calgary Press), 2005. (Previously appeared as IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Discussion Paper No. 889.) ``Fiscal Competition'', in B. Weingast and D. Wittman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming. ``The Dynamics of Municipal Fiscal Adjustment'', with T. Buettner, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming. (Previously appeared as CESifo Working Paper No. 649, January 2002, and as IFIR Working Paper No. 2005-03.) Review of The Size of Nations} by A. Alesina and E. Spolaore, Journal of Regional Science 45(2), May 2005, 438--440. |