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, 2009, 2010
Meritorious Service Award, U.S. Treasury Department, 1987
First Prize, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, National Tax Association, 1979

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2011

Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive? (with Garth Heutel and Gilbert Metcalf), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2011)

Negative Leakage (with Daniel Karney and Kathy Baylis) (2011)

Optimal Taxation of Externalities Interacting Through Markets: A Theoretical General Equilibrium Analysis (with Xiaolin Ren and John Braden), Resource and Energy Economics (2011)

Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy, Risk Analysis (2011)

The Progressivity of Social Security (with Julia Lynn Coronado and Thomas Glass), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2011)

Can Pollution Tax Rebates Protect Low-Income Families? The Effects of Relative Wage Rates (with Holly Monti), NBER Working Paper #15935, Cambridge, MA (2010)

2010

Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices (with Garth Heutel), B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2010)

Combinations of Instruments to Achieve Low-Carbon Vehicle-Miles (with Daniel Karney), Stimulating Low-Carbon Vehicle Technologies (2010)

Environmental Taxes (with Andrew Leicester and Stephen Smith), Dimensions of Tax Design (2010)

Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution (with Sarah West), B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy -- Advances (2010)

The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates (with Garth Heutel), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2010)

2009

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

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

The Allocation of Permits in U.S. Climate Change Legislation (with Daniel Karney), Economists' Voice (2009)

Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy

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

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

Environmental Policy in the Energy Sector

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

The Economics of Pollution Havens (2006)

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

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

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

Environmental Policy in the Transportation Sector

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

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)

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

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 Policy via Deposit Refund Systems

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

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

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

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

Garbage and Recycling Behavior

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

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

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)

Other Environmental Issues

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

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

Environmental Taxes and the Double-Dividend Hypothesis: Did You Really Expect Something for Nothing? (with Gilbert Metcalf), Chicago-Kent Law Review (1998)

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

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

Social Security

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

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

Taxation: Analysis of Incidence

The Distribution of Tax Burdens: Introduction (with Gilbert Metcalf), The Distribution of Tax Burdens (2003)

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

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

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

Taxation: Deadweight Loss

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

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

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)

Taxation: Effects on Housing, Charity, Savings, Revenue

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

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

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

Taxation: Evaluation of Reforms

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)

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)

Taxation: Models of Computable General Equilibrium

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

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

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

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