William F. Fox
Professor, Department of Economics
Director, Center for Business & Economic
Research
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4170
phone: (865) 974-6112
fax: (865) 974-3100
BillFox@utk.edu
Ph.D., Economics, Ohio State University
M.A., Economics, Ohio State University
B.S., Business, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Dr. Fox has held appointments as a Visiting Scholar for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii.
In addition, Dr. Fox has served as a consultant on finance, taxation, and economic development in a number of states and developing countries.
Dr. Fox is a member of the American Economics Association and immediate past President of the National Tax Association.
“Has Internet Access Taxation Affected Internet Use? A Panel Data Analysis,” (with Donald Bruce and John Deskins) Public Finance Review, March 2004.
“Total State and Local Business Taxes: Fiscal 2003 Update,” (with Robert Cline, Tom Neubig, and Andrew Phillips) State Tax Notes, October 20, 2003.
“Do Economic Effects Justify the Use of Tax Incentives?” (with Matthew N. Murray) forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal.
Fiscal Federalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Subsidiarity and Solidarity in a Three-Nation State” (with Christine Wallich) forthcoming in Public Budgeting and Management.
“Destination Based Indirect Taxation: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 16, 2003.
“Prospects and Challenges for State and Local Government in a Digital World,” (with Kelly Edmiston) in State and Local Government Finances at the Beginning of the 21st Century edited by David Sjoquist, Edward Elgar, 2003.
“History and Economic Impact of the Sales Tax,” in Sales Taxation, Edited by Jerry Janata, Institute for Professionals in Taxation, September 2003.
“To Tax or Not to Tax: The Case of Electronic Commerce,” (with Donald Bruce and Matthew Murray), Contemporary Economic Policy, October 2002.
“State Corporate Tax Revenue Trends: Causes and Possible Solutions” (with LeAnn Luna), National Tax Journal, September 2002.
"Investing in Rural Infrastructure" (with Sanela Porca), in Beyond Agriculture: New Policies for Rural America, edited by Mark Drabenstott, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: forthcoming. Also, published in International Regional Science Review, January 2001.
"Should E-Commerce Transactions be Exempt from the Sales Tax?" (with LeAnn Luna) Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 1, Number 2, 2000.
"E-Commerce in the Context of Declining State Sales Tax Bases," (with Don Bruce), National Tax Journal, December 2000.
"Sub-National VAT or Retail Sales Tax: What is Tax Policy's Panacea?" (with LeAnn Luna) Proceedings of the Ninety-First Annual Conference of the National Tax Association, 2000.
"Can the Sales Tax Survive a Future Like its Past?" in The Future of State Tax Policy Tax, edited by David Brunori, Urban Institute Press, 1998.
"Fiscal Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Dayton Challenge" (with Christine Wallich), in Fiscal Federalism in Developing Countries, edited by Richard Bird and Francois Vaillencourt, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
"Fiscal Incentives and Local Economic and Fiscal Performance" (with Matthew Murray), in Local Government Tax and Land Use Policy in the United States, edited by Helen Ladd, Edward Elgar press, Northampton, MA, 1998.
"Intergovernmental Aspects of Growth and Stabilization Policy" (with Matthew Murray), in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Perspectives and Prospects, edited by Ron Fisher, Kluwer Press, 1997.
"The Sales Tax and Electronic Commerce: So What's New?" (with Matthew Murray), National Tax Journal, September 1997.