Professor Ben Lockwood

Phone: +44 (0)24 7652 3277

Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 3032

Email: b.lockwood@warwick.ac.uk

Room: S1.111

Office Hours: 10-12 Tuesday

Research Interests

Political economy
Taxation
Fiscal Federalism

Recent Research Papers

Political Economy

"Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England"

"Costly Voting when both Information and Preferences Differ: Is Turnout Too High or Too Low?", (with Sayantan Ghosal) Social Choice and Welfare 33, 25-50, 2009

(this is a much revised and extended version of University of Warwick Working Paper 670, "Information Aggregation, Costly Voting and Common Values", January 2003)

"Voting, Lobbying, and the Decentralization Theorem" Economics and Politics, 20, 416-461, 2008

"Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning vs. Re-Election Concerns", (with Eric LeBorgne), Public Choice 129, 41-60, October 2006

"When are Plurality Rule Voting Games Dominance-Solvable?" (with Amrita Dhillon), Games and Economic Behaviour, 46, 55-75, January 2004

"Multiple Equilibria in the Citizen-Candidate Model of Representative Democracy", Journal of Public Economic Theory 4, 171-84, 2002 (with Amrita Dhillon)

"Distributive Politics and the Benefits of Decentralization", Review of Economic Studies, 69, 313-37, April 2002

Taxation

"How Should Financial Intermediation Services be Taxed?" , NEW

"Does Tax Competition Really Promote Growth?" (with Marko Koethenberger), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34, 191-206, 2010

"Opting For Opting In? An Evaluation of The European Commission's Proposals for Reforming VAT on Financial Services" (with Rita de la Feria), Fiscal Studies

"The Causes and Consequences of the VAT Revolution: An Empirical Investigation" (with Michael Keen) , Journal of Development Economics, 92, 138-151, 2010

"Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU Countries" (with Giuseppe Migali) , Economic Journal, 2009, 119, 406-429

"Do Countries Compete over Corporate Taxes?" , (with Michael P. Devereux and Michela Redoano), Journal of Public Economics 91, 1197-1218, 2008

"Horizontal vs. Vertical Tax Competition: Theory and Some Evidence for the USA" (with Michael P. Devereux and Michela Redoano), Journal of Public Economics 91, 451-479, April 2007

"Is the VAT a Money Machine?" (with Michael Keen), The National Tax Journal 59, 905-28, December 2006

"Tax Incidence, Majority Voting and Capital Market Integration", (with Miltados Makris), Journal of Public Economics 90, 1007-1025, 2006

“Financial Consequences of the Chinese VAT Reform” (with E.Ahmad and R.Singh), International VAT Monitor, 16, 181-187, 2005

(this is based on a longer IMF Working Paper which is available here)

"Competition in Unit vs. Ad Valorem Taxes", International Tax and Public Finance 11, 763-772, 2004

Fiscal federalism

"Bailouts in Federations: is a Hard Budget Constraint Always Best?" (with Martin Besfamille), International Economic Review, 49, 577-593, 2008

"Why Focus on Spending Needs Factors? The Political Economy of Fiscal Transfer Reforms in Mexico," (with Mercedes Garcia-Escribano, Giorgio Brosio, and Ehtisham Ahmad) IMF Working Papers 07/252, International Monetary Fund

"Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons", Journal of Public Economics 91, 1197-1218, 2007

"Fiscal Decentralization: A Political Economy Perspective", in The Handbook of Fiscal Federalism (ed. E.Ahmad and G.Brosio), Edward Elgar, 2006

(this chapter is based on a longer Warwick Working Paper which is available here)

"Fiscal Decentralization and the Political Budget Cycle"