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| Paul Rothstein is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and associate director of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. He is also a resident fellow in the Center in Political Economy and member of the executive committee for the Center in New Institutional Social Sciences, all at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his BA at Yale University and his PhD in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has held positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of Rochester.
Professor Rothstein’s specialty is public sector economics, and he has written in the areas of local public finance, taxation, and public choice. His previous work includes, “Learning the Preferences of Governments and Voters from Proposed Spending and Aggregated Votes,” Journal of Public Economics (1994), “Models with an Uncongestible Public Good and a Continuum of Consumers,” Journal of Urban Economics (2000), and “Possibility, Impossibility and History in the Origins of the Marriage Tax,” National Tax Journal (2003), the last two with Professor Marcus Berliant. Professor Rothstein is currently interested in federalism, the benefits and costs of competition among local governments, and the role of political processes, legal institutions and central government in channeling this competition. His current working papers explore fiscal cooperation among jurisdictions, welfare possibilities and the formation of federations, the political economy of urban mass transportation, and (most recently) homeland security spending.
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