Its my pleasure to invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardize
To invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardized cities as the