Papers for Past Webinars

Max Löffler and Sebastian Siegloch show that the tax incidence depends on how housing prices, labor and other types of incomes as well as public services respond to property tax changes.

Carlos F. Avenancio-León and Troup Howard document a nationwide “assessment gap” which leads local governments to place a disproportionate fiscal burden on racial and ethnic minorities.

What is the optimal tax rate on residential housing? In this paper, Kasper Kragh-Sørensen (University of Oslo) considers both the distributional effects and the long-lived transitional dynamics following a change in the property tax rate.

John Yinger (Syracuse University) develops a new method for determining the incidence of property tax differences across jurisdictions.