Publications

Karl W. Smith

Publications

 

Dissertation

Smith, Karl “The Prior Trap: Role Models, College Going and the Neighborhood Effect” Mya, 2007.

Monographs

Smith, Karl “Sales Tax in the 21st Century: Less Revenue and Less Stability,” Economics Bulletin, Number 3, August 2009, 7 pages.

Smith, Karl “The Economy and Employment in North Carolina: Is the Worst Over,” Economics Bulletin, Number 2, August 2009, 9 pages.

Smith, Karl. “Housing, Exports and North Carolina’s Economy,”Economics Bulletin, Number 1 August 2008, 7 pages.

Professional Articles

Smith, Karl. “Evaluating New Revenue Sources for Counties”, Popular Government, 74(1): 20 – 30.

White Papers

Smith, Karl, “Interactive Revenue Forecasting Tool for 100 North Carolina Counties,” prepared for the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, Winter 2009.

Smith, Karl, “North Carolina Interactive Revenue Forecasting Tool,” prepared for the North Carolina General Assembly, Fall 2008.

Smith, Karl, and Roby Sawyers, “North Carolina Income Tax Rates with Federal Adjusted Gross Income as the Base,” prepared for the North Carolina General Assembly, Summer 2007.

Smith, Karl, “North Carolina’s Tax Structure:  A Blueprint For Change” IEI Working Group Report, Spring 2006.

Smith, Karl, “Financing the Future: A Primer on North Carolina’s Tax Structure”, IEI Working Group Series, Fall 2005.

Conference Papers

“The Prior Trap: Role Models, College Going and the Neighborhood Effect,” George Mason University, Public Choice Workshop, October, 10 2007.

“A Rational Basis for Culture: Priors and the Neighborhood Effect,” North Carolina State University, Graduate Seminar Series, November 22, 2006.

“A Representative Consumer has to do what a Representative Consumer has to do: Income Elasticity and the Tax Interaction Effect,” Camp Resources XIII , Wilmington, North Carolina, August 11 2005.

“Lie to Me, I Promise I’ll Believe: Rationality, Preferences and Information,” North Carolina State University, Graduate Seminar Series, September 15h 2005.

Work in Progress

Smith, Karl “Do Balanced State Budgets Mean Bigger Recessions: Evidence from the 2008 – 2009 Recession.”

Smith, Karl and Kathryn Mulvaney. “Rethinking the Motor Fuels Tax: Lessons from the Vehicle Miles Traveled Experiments.”

Smith, Karl.  “The Prior Trap: Role Models, College Going and the Neighborhood Effect.”Under Review by Journal of Political Economy

Smith, Karl. “Losses From Trade: Distributional Uncertainty and the Kaldor-Hicks Criterion.” Under Review by Southern Economic Journal