The Andrew Young School's
Annual Conference on Public Finance Issues
in an International Perspective
 

As part of the Andrew Young School's mission to promote excellence in the analysis, design and implementation of public policy, the International Studies Program annually organizes an international conference to bring together senior policy experts, academics, and policy makers around an important policy theme.

The International Studies Program of the Andrew Young School and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will be hosting a conference on Property Tax in April 2008 at the Evergreen Conference Resort in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Previous conference themes included:

• October 2007: Tax Compliance and Evasion
• June 2006: Alternative Methods of Taxing Individuals
• May 2005: Experimental Public Economics
• October 2004: Challenges in the Design of Fiscal Equalization and Intergovernmental Transfers
  
• May 2004:The Challenges of Tax Reform in a Global Economy
  
• 2003: The Hard to Tax: An International Perspective
  
• 2002: Can Decentralization Help Rebuild Indonesia
  
• 2001: Public Finance in Developing and Transition Countries
  

The selection of speakers and invited attendees have varied from year to year based on the conference theme but have included Richard Bird, Richard and Peggy Musgrave, and Charles McLure (2001); Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Paul Smoke, and Anwar Shah (2002); Milka Casanegra, William Fox, Matthew Murray, Friedrich Schneider and Victor Thuronyi (2003).

The conference is generally held each spring outside Atlanta at The Evergreen Conference Center in Stone Mountain, Georgia. For more information, please contact Mr. Paul Benson.