Don Fullerton

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gutgsell Professor of Finance
Institute for Government and Public Affairs (IGPA)
Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP)
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Expertise

environmental and energy economics and policy analysis
public economics and taxation
distributional effects of taxes, social security, & regulations

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Honors & Awards

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, UIUC, 2008
Meritorious Service Award, U.S. Treasury Department, 1987
First Prize, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, National Tax Association, 1979

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Articles in Journals

Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth (with Seung Rae Kim), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2008)

The Many Definitions of Social Security Privatization (with Michael Geruso), The Economists' Voice (2007)

The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Taxes (with Garth Heutel), Journal of Public Economics (2007)

The Two-Part Instrument in a Second-Best World (with Ann Wolverton), Journal of Public Economics (2005)

Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions (with Li Gan), American Economic Review (2005)

A Simulation-Based Welfare Loss Calculation for Labor Taxes with Piecewise-Linear Budgets (with Li Gan), Journal of Public Economics (2004)

Suggested Subsidies are Sub-optimal Unless Combined with an Output Tax (with Robert D. Mohr), Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy (2003)

Cap and Trade Policies in the Presence of Monopoly and Distortionary Taxation (with Gilbert E. Metcalf), Resource and Energy Economics (2002)

Can Taxes on Cars and on Gasoline Mimic an Unavailable Tax on Emissions (with Sarah E. West), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2002)

Environmental Controls, Scarcity Rents, and Pre-Existing Distortions (with Gilbert E. Metcalf), Journal of Public Economics (2001)

A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies, Southern Economic Journal (2001)

Two Generalizations of a Depost-Refund System (with Ann Wolverton), American Economic Review (2000)

Garbage and Recycling with Endogenous Local Policy (with Thomas C. Kinnaman), Journal of Urban Economics (2000)

How Economists See the Environment (with Robert Stavins), Nature (1998)

Policies for Green Design (with Wenbo Wu), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1998)

Neglected Effects on the Uses Side: Even a Uniform Tax Would Change Relative Goods Prices (with Diane Lim Rogers), American Economic Review (1997)

Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Comment, The American Economic Review (1997)

Sulfur Dioxide Compliance of a Regulated Utility (with Shaun P. McDermott and Jonathan P. Caulkins), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1997)

Household Responses to Pricing Garbage by the Bag (with Thomas C. Kinnaman), The American Economic Review (1996)

Garbage, Recycling, and Illicit Burning or Dumping (with Thomas C. Kinnaman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1995)

Distortionary Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods (with Charles Ballard), Journal of Economic Perspectives (1992)

A General Equilibrium Model of Housing, Taxes, and Portfolio Choice (with James Berkovec), Journal of Political Economy (1992)

The Irrelevance of Detail in a Computable General Equilibrium Model (with Tyler Fox), Economics Letters (1991)

Reconciling Recent Estimates of the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation, American Economic Review (1991)

The Marginal Excess Burden of Different Capital Tax Instruments (with Yolanda K. Henderson), Review of Economics and Statistics (1989)

A Disaggregate Equilibrium Model of the Tax Distortions among Assets, Sectors, and Industries (with Yolanda K. Henderson), International Economic Review (1989)

The General Equilibrium Effects of Inflation on Housing Consumption and Investment (with James Berkovec), American Economic Review (1989)

The Indexation of Interest, Depreciation, and Capital Gains and Tax Reform in the U.S., Journal of Public Economics (1987)

Uncertain Parameter Values and the Choice among Policy Options (with Andrew Lyon), Journal of Public Economics (1986)

Long-Run Effects of the Accelerated Cost Recovery System (with Yolanda K. Henderson), Review of Economics and Statistics (1985)

Replacing the U.S. Income Tax with a Progressive Consumption Tax : A Sequenced General Equilibrium Approach (with John B. Shoven and John Whalley), Journal of Public Economics (1983)

Transition Losses of Partially Mobile Industry-Specific Capital, Quarterly Journal of Economics (1983)

On the Possibility of an Inverse Relationship Between Tax Rates and Government Revenues, Journal of Public Economics (1982)

Corporate Tax Integration in the United States: A General Equilibrium Approach (with A. Thomas King, John B. Shoven, and John Whalley), American Economic Review (1981)

Books and Monographs

The Economics of Pollution Havens (2006)

Income Redistribution from Social Security (with Brent Mast) (2005)

Public Finance Solutions to Vehicle Emissions Problems in California (with Sarah E. West) (2003)

The Economics of Household Garbage and Recycling Behavior (with Thomas Kinnaman) (2002)

Who Bears the Lifetime Tax Burden? (with Diane Lim Rogers) (1993)

Chapters in Books

Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy: An Introduction, Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy (2009)

Environmental Taxes (with Andrew Leicester and Stephen Smith), Tax Reform in the UK (forthcoming) (2009)

Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net? (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Julia Lynn Coronado), Tax Policy and the Economy (2009)

Tax Incidence (with Gilbert E. Metcalf), Handbook of Public Economics (2002)

The Irrelevance of the Double Dividend (with Jane Gravelle), Proceedings of the National Tax Association, November 1998 (1999)

Why Have Separate Environmental Taxes?, Tax Policy and the Economy (1996)

Working Papers

The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates (with Garth Heutel), NBER Working Paper (2007)

A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan (with Li Gan and Miwa Hattori), Working Paper (2005)

Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven and Pollution Policies (with Ye Feng and Li Gan), NBER Working Paper (2005)

The Progressivity of Social Security (with Julia Lynn Coronado and Thomas Glass), NBER Working Paper (2000)

Notes on Displaced CES Functional Forms, University of Virginia (1989)