Dagney Faulk is Director of Research in the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University. She received her PhD in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on state and local tax policy and regional economic development issues and has been published in Public Finance Review, the National Tax Journal, the Review of Regional Studies, State and Local Government Review, and State Tax Notes.

About Michael J. Hicks

Michael J. Hicks is Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Tennessee and is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. His research on regional economics and public finance has appeared in such journals as the Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Development Quarterly, Public Finance Review, Review of Regional Studies and Regional Economic Development. He is author The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart (Cambria Press, 2007) and writes a weekly syndicated economics column.