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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🧵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

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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 👇

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Kevin Spiritus @kevinspiritus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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...

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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...

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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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Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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.

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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...

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Theoretical Economics @econtheory.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Theoretical Economics Volume 20, Issue 3 (July 2025) is now online econtheory.org

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Last day to submit! Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

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Georg Thunecke @georgthunecke.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🚨 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! ♻️

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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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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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/

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Excited to serve another term as Editor-in-chief of @itaxjournal.bsky.social with this new fantastic team!

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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!

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Matt Pierson @matthewcpierson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is really cool! Have always thought this was a missing extension, particularly in the SALT context

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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:

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NBER @nber.org · 15/01/2025

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: www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-propo…

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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:

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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:

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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👇

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

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?

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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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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

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.

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Momentum Institut @momentum-institut.at · 22/02/2024

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/

Journal: Policy Responses to Tax Competition: An Introduction. Issue Date: January 2024

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

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=...

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IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance @iipf.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

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

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

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...

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David R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

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!

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