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John L. Mikesell

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Indiana University

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Fiscal Policy and Economic GrowthCorporate Taxation and AvoidanceLocal Government Finance and DecentralizationTaxation and Compliance StudiesFiscal Policies and Political Economy

Publications

176

Citations

2,323

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

56

Publishing since 1969

Research summary
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John L. Mikesell studies public finance and taxation, with a focus on how governments raise and manage revenue. His work examines sales taxes, state and local government finance, tax structure, and the challenges of forecasting government revenue. He also looks at how factors like corruption relate to how states design their tax systems.

Sales and retail taxationState and local government financePublic budgeting and revenue forecastingTax structure and policyFiscal decentralization

Publication activity shows a large one-year spike in 2018 followed by a steady decline to roughly one publication per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 37 publications37182019: 5 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 1 publication222023: 1 publication232024: 1 publication242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×6
  • National Tax Journal×3
  • Public Administration Review×2
  • The American Review of Public Administration×2
  • Post-Communist Economies×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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