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Institute of Governmental Affairs

Alan L. Olmstead, Director
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8617

(530) 752-2042 phone (530) 752-2835 fax

Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-12pm, 1pm-5pm

 
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Publications and Presentations

Property Tax including Proposition 13

  • Proposition 13 at 30: Panel 2, The Economic Impact (video). Moderator: John Decker, Executive Director, California Debt & Investment Advisory Commission Dave Doerr, California Taxpayers Association, "Coping Through California's Budget Crises in Light of Proposition 13" William Fischel, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, "Why Has the Serrano-Prop. 13 Connection Become the Conventional Wisdom?" Terri Sexton, Professor of Economics, California State University Sacramento, "Proposition 13 and Residential Mobility" Steven Sheffrin, Professor of Economics, UC Davis, "Re-Assessing the Fairness of Market Value Taxation and Proposition 13" .
  • Tax Tensions: Privatization and Local Finance, Steven M. Sheffrin and Bei Li. In Privatizing China, edited by Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong, Cornell University Press, 2008
  • Proposition 13 and Residential Mobility (pdf). Terri A. Sexton. Presentation at Proposition 13 at 30, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, June 6, 2008.

Sales Tax

  • “An Analysis of the Feasibility of Implementing A Single Rate Sales Tax,” Gary C. Cornia, Kelly D. Edmiston, Steven M. Sheffrin, and Terri A. Sexton. National Tax Journal, December 2002. Abstract. Full text article available to subscribers only.
  • “Should the Federal Income Tax Be Replaced with a National Sales or Value-added Tax?” Steven M. Sheffrin. California Policy Research Center, August 1996. Brief (pdf).

State and Local Public Finance

Tax Evasion and Compliance

Industry Specific Studies

Conference on the Economic & Social Impact of Indian Gaming in the U.S.