John Douglas Wilson
Education
A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Brown University (1975), Major Field: Economics-Applied Math.;
Ph.D., M.I.T. (1979), Major Field: Economics
Present Position
Professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University
Past Positions
1979-1984: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Columbia University;
1984-1985: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dep. of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison;
1985-1990: Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington;
1990-1998: Professor, Dept. of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington;
1992-1996: Chair, Dept. of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington
Other Activities
Journal of International Economics: Assoc. Editor, 1988-91, 1995-2001; Co-Editor, 1992-95;
American Economic Review: Board of Editors, 1989-94;
Economics & Politics: Associate Editor, 1990-present;
Journal of Urban Economics: Editorial Board, 1991 - present;
International Tax and Public Finance: Assoc. Editor, 1998-2001; Editor-In-Chief, 2001-present;
Journal of Public Economics: Associate Editor, 1998-present;
Journal of Public Economic Theory: Associate Editor, 1998-present;
CESifo Research Fellow;
Member of the Scientific Committee for the 1997 IIPF Congress
Selected Publications
Journals:
"The Effect of Potential Emigration on the Optimal Linear Income Tax," Journal of Public Economics, l4, 339-353 (1980);
"The Optimal Public Employment Policy," Journal of Public Economics, 17, 24l-258 (1982);
"Optimal Road Capacity in the Presence of Unpriced Congestion," Journal of Urban Economics, 13, 337-357 (1983);
"A Theory of Interregional Tax Competition," Journal of Urban Economics, 19, 296-315 (1986);
"Lobbying and Tariff Formation: A Deadweight Loss Consideration" (with Stanislaw Wellisz), Journal of International Economics, 20, 367-375 (1986);
"An Examination of Multijurisdictional Corporate Income Taxation Under Formula Apportionment" (with Roger Gordon), Econometrica, 54, 1357-1373 (1986);
"Trade in a Tiebout Economy," American Economic Review, 77, 431-441 (1987);
"Trade, Capital Mobility and Tax Competition,"Journal of Political Economy, 95, 835-856 (1987);
"Measuring the Efficiency Cost of Taxing Risky Capital Income" (with Roger Gordon), American Economic Review, 79, 427-439 (1989);
"On the Optimal Tax Base for Commodity Taxation," American Economic Review, 79, 1196-1206 (1989);
"Optimal Public Good Provision with Limited Lump-Sum Taxation," American Economic Review, 81, 153-166 (1991);
"Tax Competition with Two Tax Instruments" (with Sam Bucovetsky), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 21, 333-350 (1991);
"Mobile Labor, Multiple Tax Instruments, and Tax Competition," Journal of Urban Economics, 38, 333-356 (1995);
"Imperfect Mobility and Local Government Behavior in an Overlapping-Generations Model" (with David Wildasin), Journal of Public Economics, 60, 177-198 (1996);
"Political Reform and Trade Policy" (with Raymond Riezman), Journal of International Economics, 42, 67-90 (1997);
"Income Redistribution with Well-Informed Local Governments" (with Horst Raff), International Tax and Public Finance, 4, 407-427 (1997);
"Imperfectly Mobile Households and Durable Local Public Goods: Does the Capitalization Mechanism Work?" (with P.Sprunger), Journal of Urban Economics, 44, 468-492 (1998);
"Risky Local Tax Bases: Risk-Pooling vs. Rent-Capture" (with David Wildasin), Journal of Public Economics, 69, 229-247 (1998);
"Theories of Tax Competition", National Tax Journal, 52, 269-304 (1999);
"Tax Competition and Trade Protection" (with E. Janeba), Finanzarchiv, 56, 459-480 (2000);
"Expenditure Competition" (with R. Gordon), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 5, 399-417 (2003);
"Tax Competition: Bane or Boon?" (with D. Wildasin), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
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