Timothy J. Goodspeed

Dr. Timothy J Goodspeed is a professor of economics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches courses in public finance and money and banking. He completed his undergraduate studies at SUNY Binghamton and received his PhD from the University of Maryland. In a 2008 ranking of public economics economists, Dr. Goodspeed ranked in the top 50 authors in the world in public economics.

Prior to his time at CUNY, Dr. Goodspeed worked as an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Office of Tax Analysis in both the Individual and International Tax Divisions from 1986 until 1990, and was an assistant professor of economics at Florida International University from 1990 until 1994. He has been a member of the Department of Economics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center since the fall of 1994. Since 2002, he has also been an adjunct professor in SIPA at Columbia University. In addition, he has been a visiting researcher at the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) in Madrid, Spain, and a a visiting professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

His research relates to taxation, intergovernmental fiscal relations, state and local public finance, tax competition and international taxation including the tax treatment of multinational corporations and transfer pricing. He has consulted for the OECD and the ADB. His research has been published in economic journals such as the Public Finance Review and the Journal of Public Economics.

• University of Maryland (PhD)
• State University of New York at Binghamton (BS)

• “Bailouts in a Federation.” 2002. International Tax and Public Finance. August. 9: 409-421.
• “Follow the Leader? Evidence on European and U.S. Tax Competition.” (with Rosanne Altshuler) 2015. Public Finance Review. July; vol. 43, 4: pp. 485-504.
• “Tax Structure in a Federation.” 2000. Journal of Public Economics. March. 75(3): 493-506.
• “Explaining the Low Taxable Income of Foreign-Controlled Companies in the United States” (with Harry Grubert and Deborah Swenson). 1993. Chapter 7 (pp. 237-270) of Studies in International Taxation, ed. by Alberto Giovannini, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Joel Slemrod, University of Chicago Press.
• “A Re-Examination of the Use of Ability to Pay Taxes by Local Governments.” 1989. Journal of Public Economics. 38: 319-342.
• “Tax Competition and Tax Structure in Open Federal Economies: Evidence from OECD Countries with Implications for the European Union.” 2002. European Economic Review. February. 46(2): 357-374.
• “The Incidence of Bank Regulations and Taxes on Wages: Evidence from US States” 2014, in Taxation and Regulation of the Financial Sector, ed. by Ruud De Mooij and Gaetan Nicodeme, MIT Press.
• “Do Companies View Bribes as a Tax? Evidence on the Trade-off between Corporate Taxes and Corruption in the Location of FDI.” 2013. (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Li Zhang). Chapter 3 of Critical Issues in Taxation and Development, edited by Clemens Fuest and George R. Zodrow, Cambridge: MIT Press.
• “On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation.” 2012. (with Andrew Haughwout). Economics of Governance. Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 1-27.
• “The Nonprofit Sector’s Capital Constraint: Does it Provide a Rationale for the Tax-Exemption Granted to Nonprofit Firms?” (with Daphne Kenyon). 1993. Public Finance Quarterly. 21: 415-433.