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David Agrawal

Assist. Prof. David Agrawal, Ph.D.

University of Kentucky

Guest program

CES Visiting Scholar

Contact

LMU Munich
Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Schackstr. 4
80539 Munich, Germany

Room: 117
Phone: +49 89 2180 3105

Website: Personal website

Visiting period:
4 - 9 June 2019

Country

USA

Summary

Fiscal decentralization and mobility

In a recent article in CESifo Forum, David Agrawal and Dirk Foremny reviewed the economic consequences of Spanish fiscal decentralization with a particular focus on the impact on the mobility of high-income individuals and the implications of migration decisions for public finances. Their tax revenue simulations, combined with evidence on inequality after taxes, suggest that regions adjusting their tax rates in the presence of mobility need not threaten progressive redistribution in the short run. Indeed, fiscal decentralization gives regions the autonomy to shape a tax system consistent with their political ideology and revenue needs.
David Agrawal’s primary field of research is public finance, with an emphasis on taxation. His research agenda focuses on theoretical and empirical models of tax competition and fiscal federalism, the mobility of people and firms in response to taxes, and sales and excise taxes.
While visiting CES, he will continue working on three projects: general equilibrium tax incidence, taxation in networks, and the determinants of local policy choice.
David R. Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public Policy & Administration and Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky and a CESifo Network Fellow. He is editor of the Policy Watch section of International Tax and Public Finance. He has published papers in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Journal of Urban Economics, among others. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in 2012. David Agrawal received The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize in 2011 and The Young Economists Award in 2012.