| Name: | William Hoyt |
| Position Type: | Professorship |
| Appointment Start Date: | 07/01/00 |
| Appointment End Date: | |
| Area of Specialty: | Public finance and urban economics |
| Summary Vita: | Available on Gatton College website at gatton.uky.edu |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. |
| Professional Affiliations: | Executive Committee, UK Poverty Research Center Kentucky Department of Revenue Tax Liaison Committee EDITORIAL BOARD: Journal of Urban Economics (2002-present) "Imperfect Competition between Communities, Politics, and Capitalization" 50th Annniversary Tiebout Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 2005. "Cost of Government Services: Trends and Comparisons for Kentucky and its Neighboring States" (with J. Garen and A. Stewart), presented at the Business and Economics Research Group (BERG) of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Conference, May 2005. "MSA Location and the Impact of State Taxes on Employment and Population: A Comparison of Border and Interior MSA's" (National Tax Association, November 2004; Southern Economic Association, November 2004) |
| Primary Research Focus: | Public economics with particular emphasis on urban public economics and state and local public finance |
| Key Contributions: | Dr. Hoyt's research notion that the actions of a state or local government in its tax and spending policies should consider other government's (neighboring states) responses to its actions is cited by numerous other researchers |
| Publications: | Logan, T., Hoyt, W., McCollister, K., French, M., Leukefeld, C.G., & Minton, L. (2004). Economic evaluation of drug court: Methodology, results, and policy implications. Evaluation and Program Planning, 27(4), 381-396. |