David R. Agrawal
@davidragrawal.bsky.social
Professor UC Irvine Economics; Editor-in-Chief ITAX; Research on tax, fiscal competition, local policy, RST/VAT, inequality & mobility https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~dagrawa4/
🧵Is telework threatening state and local tax systems? My new paper: “State and Local Tax Policy in a Time of Telework” (with Xinyu Chen) @natltax.bsky.social Idea: telework decouples the residence and workplace posing challenges for who taxes remote workers. doi.org/10.1086/740842
New paper surveying subnational income taxes: 📄 Lessons on State and Local Income Taxes From the Twenty-First Century and Challenges for the Future onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... What have we learned about subnational income taxes—and what’s next? A short thread 👇
Registration is open for the 6th Tinbergen Institute Public Economics Workshop on 20 May at the University of Amsterdam, with @davidragrawal.bsky.social, David Seim, Kate Smith, and Etienne Lehmann. Register: tinbergen.nl/event/2026/0...
📣 Today! Join us @osus-info.bsky.social at 11:30 ET, 4:30 pm (UK), or 5:30 pm (Euro)! David Agrawal (UC Irvine) presents “Policy Competition in a Spatial Economy” (osus.info) Hosted by @urbaneconomics.bsky.social
Online Spatial & Urban Seminar
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Looking forward to presenting this new paper on the welfare effects of policy competition in the OSUS seminar. Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Get the zoom link for the talk here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Policy Competition in a Spatial Economy
<p>We incorporate policy competition among governments into a quantitative spatial model. Our new approach quantifies the interdependence of policymaking among
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Online Spatial & Urban Seminar@osus-info.bsky.social · 10mo ago📣 Join us Monday at 11:30 ET for an @osus-info.bsky.social seminar! David Agrawal (UC Irvine) presents “Policy Competition in a Spatial Economy” (osus.info) Cecile Gaubert and Xiangliang Li will be our panelists!
An early Christmas gift 👇 Thanks, @davidragrawal.bsky.social, Jim Poterba and @omzidar.bsky.social, for leading this project so successfully. It was an honor and a pleasure to contribute a chapter on corporate tax competition among the Swiss cantons.
David R. Agrawal@davidragrawal.bsky.social · 11mo agoExcited to receive our new 536 page book on tax competition and coordination in the mail today: "Policy Responses to Tax Competition" (w/ Poterba & @omzidar.bsky.social) I know everyone is looking forward to order it here: amazon.com/-/es/Respons...
Excited to receive our new 536 page book on tax competition and coordination in the mail today: "Policy Responses to Tax Competition" (w/ Poterba & @omzidar.bsky.social) I know everyone is looking forward to order it here: amazon.com/-/es/Respons...
Last day to submit! Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!
Georg Thunecke@georgthunecke.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 1 week left! 🚨 Working on local public finance or fiscal federalism? Present your research in Berlin 🇩🇪 📅 July 7–8, 2025 📍 Harnack-Haus 🎙️ Keynote: @davidragrawal.bsky.social (UC Irvine) ✈️ Travel & stay covered 📩 Apply by April 15 → events.tax.mpg.de/event/10/ Please share this! ♻️
🚨 1 week left! 🚨 Working on local public finance or fiscal federalism? Present your research in Berlin 🇩🇪 📅 July 7–8, 2025 📍 Harnack-Haus 🎙️ Keynote: @davidragrawal.bsky.social (UC Irvine) ✈️ Travel & stay covered 📩 Apply by April 15 → events.tax.mpg.de/event/10/ Please share this! ♻️
Local Public Finance and Fiscal Federalism Around the World
The aim of this conference is to bring together international scholars of all career stages working on topics of local public finance, fiscal federalism, interjurisdictional competition and cooperatio...
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Local public economics and federalism are important! I'm excited to return to Berlin to give the keynote at this conference on local public finance issues around the world. Travel funding available! Submit your local PF papers here: events.tax.mpg.de/event/10/
Excited to serve another term as Editor-in-chief of @itaxjournal.bsky.social with this new fantastic team!
@itaxjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago📢Announcement (pt.2): We would like to welcome new Editors-in-Chief: Katarzyna Bilicka (@katarzynabilicka.bsky.social), Thiess Buettner and Jing Xing and new Policy Watch Editors: Arun Advani and Philipp Dörrenberg.
Thanks to both Ron and Nadine for their service to the public finance community, especially during the crazy pandemic years. I learned a lot & enjoyed working with them over the last four years where submissions to the journal almost doubled! And follow @itaxjournal.bsky.social which is new here!
@itaxjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago📢Announcement: At the end of last year, Ronald B. Davies ( @ronbdavies.bsky.social) and Nadine Riedel stepped down as ITAX Editors-in-Chief. We want to thank them for all they did to solidify ITAX's position as one of the leading journals in the field of public economics!
This is really cool! Have always thought this was a missing extension, particularly in the SALT context
David R. Agrawal@davidragrawal.bsky.social · 2y agoSpatial tax competition models assume people are uniformly distributed in jurisdictions, but what if jurisdictions differ in how their populations are distributed? See my paper "Sensitivity versus size: Implications for tax competition" w/ Bagh and Mardan in @econtheory.bsky.social Thread:
Spatial tax competition models assume people are uniformly distributed in jurisdictions, but what if jurisdictions differ in how their populations are distributed? See my paper "Sensitivity versus size: Implications for tax competition" w/ Bagh and Mardan in @econtheory.bsky.social Thread:
Theoretical Economics@econtheory.bsky.social · 2y agoExtending the 2-country tax competition framework with cross-border shopping to 3 countries and a general spatial population distribution, the population distribution within countries matters for the order of tax rates in equilibrium. @DavidRAgrawal econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
Open call for papers, Fiscal Dynamics of State and Local Governments. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on September 11-12, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on February 27, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/fiscal-dynamics-state-and-local-governments
A “tax haven” stirs up imagery of tropical island paradises that set very low tax rates. Are state/local governments that levy zero tax rates hidden "tax havens"? Check out my chapter "Hidden Havens: State and Local Governments as Tax Havens?" in this @elgarpublishing.bsky.social book Thread:
With telework decoupling the state of work & residence, how do local income taxes affect wages, house prices, population and employment? Check out my article “Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy” w/ Brueckner in J. @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Thread:
How does requiring firms to remit taxes influence local revenues? Does added enforcement benefit larger or smaller jurisdictions? See my paper "Remittance Rules and the Distribution of Local Tax Revenue: Evidence after Wayfair" with Iuliia Shybalkina in @natltax.bsky.social Thread👇
My Annual Review article w/ Brueckner & @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social article on fiscal federalism is now available open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Is inequality a local or a national issue? Who should oversee disaster policy? What externalities arise from multi-level governance?
Fiscal Federalism in the Twenty-First Century | Annual Reviews
Fiscal federalism concerns the division of policy responsibilities among different levels of government. Many current economic and policy developments, such as globalization, environmental crises, and...
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I missed @iipf.bsky.social because of some good news! I've moved to the University of California, Irvine where I was promoted to Professor of Economics! I'm excited about my outstanding new colleagues/students. I'm grateful for the nine years at UKY's Martin School.
Was tun, wenn Unternehmen ihre Gewinne in Niedrigsteuerländer verschieben? @davidragrawal.bsky.social, @omzidar.bsky.social & James Poterba analysieren im Paper der Woche, wie schädliche Auswirkungen des Steuerwettbewerbs abgemildert werden können. Zusammengefasst von @katharinamader.bsky.social. 1/
My paper on the taxation of nonresident income by U.S. states is out in this month's issue of AEJ: Policy: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Thanks for your patience, IIPF followers on BlueSky! We now have great news to post: 📣 the Call for Papers for #IIPF2024 Congress in Prague is out! iipf2024.vse.cz
Working paper! "A New Approach to Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Decentralized Policies" with William Hoyt and Tidiane Ly What are the welfare effects of decentralization? How can federal govnts prioritize grants for local policies to internalize spillovers? Answers: ssrn.com/abstract=400...
Hi Bluesky! Thanks to @apeichl.bsky.social, I'm now here too! For new followers on here, I'm a public finance economist working taxation, local public finance, fiscal competition, mobility, inequality, and consumption taxation, likely writing about some combination of these topics. Follow me!
