Fred Thompson

Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management

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1.

The Political Economy of Public Administration

HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Chap. 28, pp. 1063-1100, third edition, Rabin, Hildreth & Miller, eds, Marcel Dedkker, Inc., 2007
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 May 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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rational choice, public choice, organization, networks, clinical methods

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Organizational Process Models of Budgeting

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Feb 2005
Mark Green and Fred Thompson
Oregon State University - College of Business and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Budget, satisficing, organizational process, mechanisms

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A Tough-Minded, but Sympathetic, Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jun 2007
Elliot Maltz, Debra Jones Ringold and Fred Thompson
Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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: corporate social responsibility, cost-benefit analysis, externalities, business strategy, core competencies, corporate philanthropy

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Making Public Management a Design-Oriented Science

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Apr 2007
Michael Barzelay and Fred Thompson
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Herbert Simon, Eugene Bardach, relational mechanisms, mechanism design, processes. narrative positivism, practice, evidence-based management

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Ranking State Tax Systems: Progressivity, Adequacy, Efficiency

State Tax Notes, Vol. 141, No. 7, 2013
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2013
Fred Thompson, Ken Beatty and Jon Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University - Public Policy Research Center and Willamette University - Public Policy Research Center
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state and local tax systems, fairness, adequacy, neutrality

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A Better Budget Rule

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 463-478, Summer 2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2009
Michael U. Dothan and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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State government expenditure, State government investment, Reserve funds

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The GAO's Bid-Protest Mechanism: Effectiveness and Fairness in Defense Acquisitions?

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 May 2010 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2010
Steven Maser, Vladimir Subbotin and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Governance, Bid protests, GAO, Defense acquisition, Procurement, Fairness, Opportunism, Transaction costs

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The Information Revolution and the New Public Management

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 125-144, 1996
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson and G.B. Reschenthaler
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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information costs, transaction costs, information technology, new public management, excludability, exhaustablity

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Budgets? We Don’t Need No Stinkin Budgets: Ten Things We Think We Think We Know about Budgets and Performance

Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences 2012: Pages 53–66
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2012
Ken Smith and Fred Thompson
School Accountability Group and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Budgets, performance measurement, performance management, targets, annularity, transparency

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Optimal Budget Rules: Making Government Spending Sustainable Through Present-Value Balance

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Oct 2006
Michael U. Dothan and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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government expenditure, government investment, rainy day funds, sustainable debt levels, revenue volatility

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Controllership in the Public Sector

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 547-571, 1986
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson and L. R. Jones
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Naval Postgraduate School
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budgeting, organizational process, mechanism design, alignment, incentives, agents, sequential decisions

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Dispelling Fear and Loathing in Government Contracting: A Proposal for Cultivational Governance in DOD Source Selections

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2010
Steven Maser and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Governance, Trust, Fairness, Defense acquisition, Procurement, Source selection, Bid protests, Opportunism, Transaction costs

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Betting on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball: Revenue Forecasting, Financial Theory, and Budgets - An Expanded Treatment

Public Administration Review, Vol. 67, No. 5, pp. 48-66, September/October 2007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson and Bruce Gates
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
Downloads 270 (218,959)
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fiscal sustainability, revenue forecasting, volatility, mean-variance analysis, tax-portfolios, covariance, martingales

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The Three Faces of Public Management

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2009
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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A Positive Model of Expenditure Growth

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Michael U. Dothan, Michael L. Hand, Kawika Pierson and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Process, Mechanism, State and local government expenditure, State government savings, Martingale methods, Optimal stopping models

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Culture and Environment in the Pacific Northwest

American Political Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 885-897, December 1997
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Apr 2008
Richard Ellis and Fred Thompson
Department of Politics and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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environmental activism, cultural theory, market-oriented incentive mechanisms

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State Fiscal Management: What Practitioners Can Learn from Risk Management Theory

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State Fiscal Management: What Practitioners Can Learn from Risk Management Theory

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 May 2006
Fred Thompson and Bruce Gates
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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state spending, state taxes, macroeconomic hedging, target budgeting, structural and cyclical deficits, rainy day funds, Oregon

State Fiscal Management: What Practitioners Can Learn from Risk Management Theory

GOVERNMENT BUDGET FORECASTING: THEORY AND PRACTICE, Chapter 21, pp. 477-500, Macmillan, 2008
Posted: 01 May 2008
Fred Thompson and Bruce Gates
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management

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state spending, state taxes, macroeconomic hedging, target budgeting, structural and cyclical deficits, rainy day funds, Oregon

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Public Choice and the Origins of the Radical Right: A Review of Nancy Maclean's Democracy in Chains – The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2018
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Nancy MacClean, James Buchanan, public choice

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The Influence of Income Tax Rates on the Market for Tax-Exempt Debt

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010
Marc Choate, Michael L. Hand and Fred Thompson
Atkinson Graduate School of Management-Willamette University, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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tax-exempt debt, indirect arbitrage, state and local government, Wyden-Gregg Tax Act

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Evidence-Based Management and the Future of Management Scholarship

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Jul 2009
Michael Barzelay and Fred Thompson
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Appraising Commitments, Quasi-Commitments, and Guarantees

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 May 2006
Søren Loentoft Hansen and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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options, present-value budgeting, public employee retirement systems, Oregon, accounting standards, FASB, GASB, defined contribution plans

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Does Oregon Need a Rainy Day Fund? Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

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Does Oregon Need a Rainy Day Fund? Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Dec 2004
Fred Thompson, Bruce Gates, Jessica Brown, Jason Page and Ryuzaburo Yoshida
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, National Geographic Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and SECOM Co., Ltd. - Business Development Division
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Rainy Day Funds, Oregon, cash balances, inventory model

Does Oregon Need a Rainy Day Fund? Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

Posted: 11 Apr 2005
Bruce Gates, Fred Thompson, Jessica Brown, Jason Page and Ryuzaburo Yoshida
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, National Geographic Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and SECOM Co., Ltd. - Business Development Division

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Managing Coprovision: Using Expectancy Theory to Overcome the Free-Rider Problem

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 179-196, 1994
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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coproduction, coprovision, HRM, Information costs, transaction costs, excludability, exhaustablity

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Management Control and the Pentagon: The Strategy-Structure Mismatch

Public Administration Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 52-66, 1991
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Administrative controls, budget process, defense, contracts, responsibility budgets

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Matching Responsibilities with Tactics: Administrative Controls and Modern Government

Public Administration Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 303-318, 1993
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2010
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Administrative controls, budget process, acquisition, contracts, responsibility budgets

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Governing Public School Districts: Insights from Economics, Political Science, and Business Management

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Feb 2011
Fred Thompson, Polly S. Rizova and Henry H. Bi
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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School districts, Performance measurement, governance

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Toward a Political Economy of Government Waste

Public Administration Review, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 418-427, September/October 1995
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
William T Stanbury and Fred Thompson
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Waste, fraud, abuse, spillovers

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Taxation Without Representation? The Political Economy of State Minimum Wage Levels

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Jul 2014
Kawika Pierson and Fred Thompson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Minimum wage, Tax shifting, Incidence, CBO, Partisan Control, Ideology

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Response to Comments on Betting on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball: Revenue Forecasting, Financial Theory, and Budgets

Public Administration Review (online version), Vol. 67, No. 5, pp. 88-93, September/October 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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fiscal sustainability, revenue forecasting, volatility, mean-variance analysis, tax-portfolios, covariance, martingales

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Does IT Modernization Affect Tax Take?

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Aug 2016
Kawika Pierson, Kawika Pierson and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Managementaffiliation not provided to SSRN and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Tax Processing, Government Finance Data, Government Information Technology, Tax Collection

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Deregulating Defense Acquisition

Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 107, No. 4, pp. 727-750, 1993
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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acquisition, contracting, systems development, defense, deregulation

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The Government Finance Database: A Common Resource for Quantitative Research in Public Financial Analysis

PLoS-ONE Vol. 10, Issue 8 (June 24, 2015) e0130119. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130119
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2015
Kawika Pierson, Michael L. Hand and Fred Thompson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Census, Financial Data, States, Municipalities, Counties, Townships, Special Tax Districts

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Budget Makers as Agents: A Preliminary Investigation of Discretionary Behavior Under State-Contingent Rewards

Public Choice, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1988
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Marc Choate and Fred Thompson
Atkinson Graduate School of Management-Willamette University and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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budgeting, organizational process, mechanism design, alignment, incentives, agency theory, state-preference theory

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Legislative Decision Making and the Size Principle

American Political Science Review, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 1100-8, 1979
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Congress, legislative process, choice mechanisms, Monte-Carlo simulation

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Property Tax Fairness in Multnomah County, Oregon

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Apr 2015
Fred Thompson, Kawika Pierson and Robert Walker
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Willamette Center for Governance and Public Policy Research
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property tax, fairness, assessment quality, stability

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A Tale of Two Cities: Learning from Oregon’s Property Tax Administration

State Tax Notes, November 3, 2014, pp. 273-384.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 14 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Fred Thompson and Robert Walker
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette Center for Governance and Public Policy Research
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property taxes, tax administration, dispersion equity, Oregon, Portland

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Utility Maximizing Behavior in Organized Anarchies

Public Choice, Vol. 36, pp. 17-32, 1981
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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collective decision making, inconsistent preferences, technological uncertainty, fluid participation, bureaucracy

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Risks for Efficiency: Comprehensive Reform of Direct Regulation

Academy of Management Review, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 746-56, 1984
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson and L. R. Jones
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Naval Postgraduate School
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regulation, legislative process, bounded rationality, interest group theory of politics

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How Government Creates Value

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Jul 2014
Fred Thompson and Polly S. Rizova
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Process, Mechanism, Government spending and taxing, Risk, Systemic risk, Public management

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Burden Sharing Among America and its Allies: Tests of Collective Choice and Their Implications

Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 457-477, 1990
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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production functions, club goods, alliances, free riders

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Do What We Did Last Year but Don’t Stray Too Far from the Pack, the Role of Behavioral Heuristics in Explaining Municipal Reserve Balances

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2020
Kawika Pierson, Kawika Pierson, Jon Thompson and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Managementaffiliation not provided to SSRN, Willamette University - Public Policy Research Center and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Municipal revenue and expenditures, Municipal savings, Unrestricted fund balances, Behavioral public finance, Anchoring, Bandwagon Effect

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The Fox and the Henhouse

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 28 May 2010
Steven Maser and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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GAO, Federal Reserve, Audit, Bid protest

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Understanding How State Fixed Effects Explain Municipal Reserve Balances

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Jul 2020
Kawika Pierson, Kawika Pierson, Jon Thompson and Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Managementaffiliation not provided to SSRN, Willamette University - Public Policy Research Center and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Municipal Revenue and Expenditures, Municipal Savings, Unrestricted Fund Balances, Behavioral Public Finance, Anchoring, Bandwagon Effect

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It's Spending that Matters: From Robust Control Theory to Practical Heuristics

Proceedings of the National Tax Association 107th Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 2014
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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State taxes, State and local spending, Process, Mechanism, Martingale methods, Optimal stopping models

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Why America's Military Base Structure Can't Be Reduced

Public Administration Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 557-563, 1988
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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legislative choice, military bases, pork-barrel politics, administrative processes

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Closeness Counts in Horseshoes and Dancing . . . And Elections

Public Choice, Vol. 38, No. 3, 1982
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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voluntary participation, voting, not-voting, minimax regret, uncertainty, risk aversion, prospect theory

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What About the Losers in the Race to the Top?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Jul 2013
Fred Thompson and Polly S. Rizova
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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schools, home-voter hypothesis, school districts, property taxes

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Beyond Measures 66 & 67: What Do We Do Now?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Oregon, Measures 5, 47, 28, 66, 67, income taxes, volatility

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Understanding and Creating Public Value: Business is the Engine; Government the Flywheel (and Also the Regulator)

Creating Public Value Conference, September 2012
Posted: 04 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2014
Fred Thompson and Polly S. Rizova
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management

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Process, Mechanism, Government spending and taxing, Risk, Systemic risk, Public management

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The Political Economy of Public Administration

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Jun 2005
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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rational choice, public choice, organization, networks, clinical methods

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Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 07 Dec 2014
Fred Thompson
Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Piketty, income, wealth, managerial capitalism, Fordism