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Public Affairs Faculty

Joyce Y. Man
Associate Professor

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993

Joyce Y. Man is an Associate Professor of Public Finance and Policy Analysis at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Her teaching and research interests focus on public finance, urban and regional economics, economic development, and international economics. Her work includes studies of the property tax and sales tax, infrastructure investment and financing, intergovernmental relations, urban, regional and international economic development policies.

Professor Man has been lead or co-principal investigator or a major contributor of a number of research projects funded by Lilly Endowment research grants, Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners or Transportation Research Board, National Research Council. She has contributed articles to journals including Public Finance Review, Journal of Urban Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, and Urban Studies.

Recent Publications

Book

Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development: Uses, Structures and Impact. Co-editor (with Craig Johnson), Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Articles

"Fiscal Pressure, Tax Competition, and the Adoption of Tax Increment Financing," Urban Studies, Vol. 36, No. 7 (1999), pp. 1151-1167.

"Tax Increment Financing and Its Effect on Property Value Growth," Public Finance Review, Vol. 26, No. 6 (November 1998), pp. 523-547 (with Mark Rosentraub).

"Transportation Infrastructure and Regional Economic Growth in China," International Journal of Public Administration (May 1998).

"Transportation Investment and Economic Activity: Evidence from Public Sector Demand Analysis," in Michael Bell and Therese McGuire (eds.), Macroeconomic Analysis of the Linkages Between Transportation Investments and Economic Performance. National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 389, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997 (with Michael Bell).

"The Impact of Local Sales Taxes on Owner-Occupied Housing," Journal of Urban Economics, 39, (1996) pp. 114-130 (with Michael Bell).

"The Incidence of Differential Commercial Property Taxes: Empirical Evidence," National Tax Journal, XLVIII, No. 4 (December 1995), pp. 479-496.