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David R. Agrawal Profile picture
David R. Agrawal
@DavidRAgrawal
Professor @UCIrvine Econ; Editor-in-Chief @ITAXjournal; Research on tax, fiscal competition, local policy, RST/VAT, inequality & mobility
Dec 10, 2020 • 24 tweets • 7 min read
🚨How do local governments set policy in the presence of mobile factors, spillovers, and information flows?

For answers, see our article "Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics" (w/ @WilliamHHoyt and @WilsonJayD), forthcoming in @AEAjournals J. Economic Literature.

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The emphasis of the article is on how local governments set policy.

But first: why should local policy determination be of interest to all economists?
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Nov 27, 2019 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
"Technology and Tax Systems" (w/ David Wildasin) is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics. Technological change simultaneously influences mobility and enforcement of tax bases, redistributing tax revenues from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions.

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1/N Some history: Analogous to online shopping today, new technologies such as refrigeration and the automobile led to large chain stores, which prompted concerns that that large chain stores were driving out small businesses. States responded by creating new taxes.
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