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Economics Department Faculty

Michael Wolkoff

Deputy Chair of the Department of Economics
Senior Lecturer in Economics and in Public Policy
Office: Harkness 238B
Phone: (585) 275-5279
Email: wolk@troi.cc.rochester.edu

Ph.D. Michigan, 1981

Course Webpages:

• ECO 261 - State & Local Public Finance
• ECO 263 - Public Finance

Research Interests: Public Policy, Economics

Selected Papers and Publications:

• "Property Rights to Rent Regulated Apartments", Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1990.
• Housing New York: Policy Challenges and Opportunities (SUNY Press), 1990.
• "Are Economic Development Policy Decisions Rational?", Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992.
• "School Performance and Housing Prices," National Tax Journal, 2001.
• "State and Local Budgeting and Coping with the Business Cycle," in Handbook of Public Budgeting, (Josey-Bass), 1999.