Contact Info

• Email: fgahvari@illinois.edu
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Leiby Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics
MSPE Director

Research Interests

Public economics, Optimal taxation

PhD

University of California at Los Angeles, 1981

Selected Publications

• "Tagging and Income Taxation: Theory and an Application", with Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, forthcoming.
• “Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data, with Janet Currie, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 46 (2008), 333-383.
• “Political competition within and between parties: an application to environmental policy,” with Helmuth Cremer and Philippe De Donder, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92 (2008), 532-547.
• “Conditional cash transfers, public provision of private goods and income redistribution,” with Enlinson H.C.de Mattos, American Economic Review, vol. 97 (2007), 491-502.
• “The Friedman rule: old and new,” Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 54 (2007), 581-589.
• “On the marginal cost of public funds and the optimal provision of public goods,” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90 (2006), 1251-1262.

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