Cynthia Rogers
The University of Oklahoma

Current Research

Current Projects and Working Papers:

 

 “Endogeneity of Tax H(e)aven Policy: Empirical Implications,” with Luisa Blanco. Submitted to professional journal, 8/3/2007.

 

“Local Option Sales Tax Elasticity:  Does the Implementing Level Matter?” with Greg Burge, University of Oklahoma.

 

 “Method for Identifying the Effects of Income and Tax Policy on State Tax Revenues,” with W. Robert Reed & Mark Skidmore.

 

“Local Sales Tax Autonomy and Implementation in the US,” Economics Department Working Paper, University of Oklahoma, November 2005. (Abstract)

 

 

Recent Publications:

 

“SRSA 2005 Annual Meetings Presidential Address: Whither Decentralization: Implications for Linking Research and Practice,” Review of Regional Studies,  forthcoming.

 

“Taxes, Public Expenditures, and State Economic Growth: Lessons From a Natural Experiment,” (with W. Robert Reed), in ed. A. Tavidze, Progress in Economics, Volume 9, (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.) 2006.

 

“Tax Burden and the Mismeasurement of State Tax Policy,” (with W. R. Reed), Public Finance Review, 34(4): 404-426, 2006.

 

“Local (Option) Sales Tax: A Decentralizing Policy?” (with X. Mu) Proceedings: Ninety-seventh Annual Conference on Taxation, Minneapolis, MN November 11-13, and minutes of the annual meeting of the National Tax Association, November 11, 2004, Washington, D.C.: National Tax Association (forthcoming).

 

“Local Option Sales Taxes (LOST) on the Urban Fringe,” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 34(1): 27-50, 2004.

 

“Tax Cuts and Employment Growth in New Jersey: Lessons from a Regional Analysis,” (with W. R. Reed), Public Finance Review, 32(3):269-291, May 2004. 

 

“Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Targeted Economic Development Programs: Lessons from Florida,” (with J. Tao), Economic Development Quarterly, 18(3):1-17, August 2004.

 

“Equity Purchases by Insiders and the Filing of Antidumping Petitions,” (with J. Hartigan), Review of International Economics, 11(5): 789-810, 2003.

 

“New Quasi-Experimental Control Group Methods for Estimating Policy Impacts,” (with W. R. Reed), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 33(3): 3-25, 2003.

 

Supplemental Materials:

““Local Economic Development Incentives: Community Perspecitves,” Norman Community Dialogue, Norman, Oklahoma, May 2007. (PowerPoint Presentation)

 

"Local Economic Development as a Prisoners' Dilemma: The Role of Business Climate" (with Stephen Ellis).  Review of Regional Studies, 30(3), 315-330, 2000. (PowerPoint Presentation)

U.S. State and Local Tax Burdens. This site contains graphs of state and local tax burdens from 1960 to 1996 for each state in the United States. (Go to site)

"Per Capital Personal Income in Oklahoma: A County Level Analysis" (with J. Dossey).  A presentation given to the Oklahoma City Economic Roundtable.  (PowerPoint Presentation)

“Citizen’s Guide to State Question 695” - online article discussing pros and cons associated with the right-to-work question posed to Oklahoma voters. (Go to site)