The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance
Edited by Robert D. Ebel and John E. Petersen
Author Information
Robert D. Ebel is Executive Director of the State of Connecticut Tax Study Commission (2015-16). Previously, he was Research Professor of Economics at the University of the District of Columbia. For the period 2006-2009 he served as Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Revenue analysis and Chief Economist for the Washington, DC government. Earlier, Ebel was a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute/Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center (TPC) and Lead Economist for the World Bank Institute's Capacity Building programs on Public Finance, Intergovernmental Relations, and Local Financial Management.
John Petersen is Professor of Public Policy and Finance at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. Prior to joining the faculty, he was President and Division Director of the Government Finance Group, a financial research and advisory firm. Earlier, Petersen served as Senior Director of the Government Finance Research Center of the Government Finance Officers Association. Petersen has written the finance column for Governing Magazine for twenty years and in 2011 received the Ken Howard Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
Contributors:
Michael E. Bell is a Research Professor in the George Washington Institute for Public Policy at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Carolyn Bourdeaux is an Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and the Associate Director of the Georgia State University Fiscal Research Center at Georgia State University.
Donald Boyd is a Senior Fellow in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Andrew Bristle is a Professorial Assistant in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University.
David Brunori is a Research Professor at the George Washington University and a Contributing Editor of State Tax Notes.
Robert M. Buckley is a Senior Fellow at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at the New School.
Richard Ciccarone is the Chief Research Officer and Managing Director of McDonnell Investment Management LLC.
Lee Cokorinos is the Principal of Democracy Strategies LLC.
Timothy J. Conlan is a University Professor of Government at George Mason University.
Joseph J. Cordes is a Professor of Economics at George Washington University.
Lucy Dadayan is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Bernard Dafflon is a Professor of Public Finance and Polices in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Ellen Dannin is the Fannie Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law in the Dickinson School Low at Pennsylvania State University.
Harley Duncan is the Tax Managing Director of KPMG LLP.
James R. Eads, Jr. is the Director of Public Affairs at Ryan, LLC.
Robert D. Ebel is a Professor of Public Administration at the University of the District of Columbia.
Ronald C. Fisher is a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University and Visiting Professor at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.
William F. Fox is the Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the William B. Stokely Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Tennessee.
Norton Francis is the Director of Revenue Estimation and Research at the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in the District of Columbia.
Robert J. Freeman is a Professor of Accounting Emeritus in Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University.
Thomas Gais is the Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Jonathan Gifford is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
Tracy M. Gordon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and an Okun-Model Fellow at The Brookings Institution.
Adam Greenwade is a Research Associate in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Billy C. Hamilton is the founder of Hamilton Consulting and a Former Texas Deputy Comptroller of Public Accounts in Austin, Texas.
W. Bartley Hildreth is a Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
Jason Juffras is an affiliate of the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University.
Daphne A. Kenyon is a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
John Kincaid is the Robert B. & Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and the Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College.
Iris J. Lav was the Deputy Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and is a Teaching Fellow at the Center for Advance Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Siona Listokin-Smith is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
LeAnn Luna is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Tennessee.
Justin Marlowe is an Assistant Professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
Christine R. Martell is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Richard H. Mattoon is a Senior Economist and Economic Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Leslie McGranahan is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Matthew N. Murray is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tennessee.
Robert H. Nelson is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.
Rudolph G.. Penner is an Institute Fellow at The Urban Institute.
John E. Petersen is a Professor of Finance and Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
Paul L. Posner is a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University.
Raymond Scheppach is a Professor of Practice in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a Fellow in the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Alex F. Schwartz is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Graduate Program in Urban Policy Analysis and Management in the Milan School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School.
Craig D. Shoulders is a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Accounting and Information Technology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
David L. Sjoquist is a Professor of Economics and the Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at George State University.
James E. Spiotto is a Partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP.
Rayna Stoycheva is an affiliate of the Department of Economics at the University of Miami.
François Vaillancourt is a Fellow at CIRANO and a Professeur Honoraire at the Université de Montréal.
Ha T.T. Vu is an affiliate of the World Bank.
Sally Wallace is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
Robert B. Ward is the Deputy Director and Director of Fiscal Studies in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Zhou Yang is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Robert Morris University.
Serdar Yilmaz is a Senior Economist at the World Bank.
