Economics PhD student and PFRC public finance fellow, Sukriti Beniwal, presents her research at ABFM.
The Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) is a key national public finance conference, held annually. This year, Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Public Affairs and Education hosted ABFM’s 36th conference from September 26–28.
Researchers, graduate students, and affiliated faculty from the Public Finance Research Cluster (PFRC) contributed nine academic papers, many of which were rooted in real-world policy projects ongoing at the cluster.
Peter Bluestone, PFRC’s associate director of domestic programs, chaired a session on education policy that featured the paper, The Impact of Georgia’s Dual Enrollment Program on Milestone Educational Outcomes and Employment, co-authored by PFRC senior research associates Nick Warner and Kshitiz Shrestha.
PFRC public finance fellows and economics PhD students, Sukriti Beniwal and Federico Corredor, presented their research on hospital organizational models and local government finances. Corredor also collaborated on a study of local sales tax elasticity in Georgia, alongside Warner and Shrestha.
Research associate professor of economics Andrey Timofeev presented his international work on tax buoyancy and tax capacity. PFRC affiliate and associate professor of public management and policy, Can Chen, chaired two sessions—one on disaster budgeting and another on machine learning in fiscal health.
Associate professor of economics Carlianne Patrick, along with Corredor and visiting scholar Nadia Farooq, discussed tax incentives and government dependency. Their presentation was based on PFRC’s research evaluating Georgia’s film tax credit program.