Firouz Gahvari
Leiby Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics
MSPE Director
Research Interests
Public economics, Optimal taxation
PhD
University of California at Los Angeles, 1981
Selected Publications
- “Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data, with Janet Currie, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 46 (2008), 333-383.
- “Political competition within and between parties: an application to environmental policy,” with Helmuth Cremer and Philippe De Donder, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92 (2008), 532-547.
- “Conditional cash transfers, public provision of private goods and income redistribution,” with Enlinson H.C.de Mattos, American Economic Review, vol. 97 (2007), 491-502.
- “The Friedman rule: old and new,” Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 54 (2007), 581-589.
- “On the marginal cost of public funds and the optimal provision of public goods,” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90 (2006), 1251-1262.