Public Economics
Public Economics is one of four core courses in the Economics Department. Syracuse University has a long tradition in public economics. The research of our core faculty includes a wide range of topics on domestic expenditure programs, tax policy, and state and local public finance. Additional faculty with public economics research interests currently work on topics in international tax policy and political economy.
Collectively, our faculty provide one of the strongest and most active research groups in this area. One of our faculty previously served as the editor of the National Tax Journal, an important journal in the field. That same faculty member has also served as Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors, and as head of the Congressional Budget Office. Our faculty have published extensively in the Journal of Public Economics and the National Tax Journal as well as in major general interest journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, and the American Economic Review. A recent ranking of Ph.D. programs in economics (available at www.econphd.net) places the Syracuse public group 23rd in the U.S. and 35th in the world.
Recent Ph.D. graduates of our program with public economics dissertations obtained positions at the University of Michigan (Robert Wood Johnson Health Scholar), University of Tennessee, West Virginia University, Congressional Budget Office, General Accounting Office, and the Social Security Administration.
Core faculty in the area of public economics include:
- Gary Engelhardt
- Jeffrey Kubik
- Christopher Rohlfs
- Perry Singleton
- Jeffrey Weinstein
- John Yinger
Other faculty with research interest in public economics include:
- Farzana Afridi
- Thomas Kneisner
- Mary Lovely
- Devashish Mitra
- Stuart Rosenthal
- Michael Wasylenko