Courses
Public Economics, Microeconomics I, Urban Economics

Research Interests
Current research and teaching interests include public finance, economic theory, and urban economics. Topics currently under study are the politics of income taxation, the microstructure of knowledge creation, and the location and growth of cities.

Selected Publications:

"Income Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods: Existence of an Optimum" (with Frank Page), Econometrica 69 (2001) 771-784

"Regional Science: The State of the Art" (with T. ten Raa), a review of the Handbook of Regional Economics,
with Thijs ten Raa, Regional Science and Urban Economics 24 (1994) 631-647.

"A Foundation of Location Theory: Existence of Equilibrium, the Welfare Theorems and Core" (with K. Dunz), Journal of Mathematical Economics 40 (2004) 593-618.

"State and Federal Tax Equity: Estimates Before and After the Tax Reform Act of 1986" (with R. Strauss), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12 (1993) 9-43; reprinted in State Tax Notes 4 (1993) 1101-1122.

“Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration,”with Robert Reed and Ping Wang,
Journal of Urban Economics 60 (2006) 69-95.