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John L. Knapp, Senior Economist
Center for Economic and Policy Studies

Room: 217
2400 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4827
Mailing address:
PO Box 400206
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4206
Phone: (434) 982-5604
E-mail: knapp@virginia.edu

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
M.A., Duke University, Durham, NC
Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

EXPERTISE
Economic development
Forecasting
Regional economics
State and local government finance

MAJOR PROJECTS
Annual tax rates survey for Virginia localities
Series describing and analyzing Virginia's twenty-one local economies
VaStat, a statistical resource maintained on the web

EXPERIENCE
Research Director, Business and Economics, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia
Deputy Director, Tayloe Murphy Institute, University of Virginia
Deputy Director, Virginia Division of State Planning and Community Affairs
Economist, Virginia Division of Industrial Development and Planning
Assistant Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Private Consultant
Former member, Governor's Advisory Board of Economists

PUBLICATIONS

• "Problems with the Proposed Homestead Constitutional Amendment," The Virginia News Letter, Vol. 84, No. 1 (January 2008)
• "Virginia Abusive Driver Fees: An Abuse of Fines?" Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Fall 2007)
• "What Will Become of the Car Tax," Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Winter 2006)
  
• "How the Housing Boom Affects Virginia's Real Estate Tax," The Virginia News Letter, Vol. 81, No. 5 (October 2005)
  
• "Virginia State Government Finances," talk before Local Government Officials Conference (August 2005)
  
• "Virginia's Real Property Tax," talk before Virginia Association of Counties and Virginia Municipal League (May 2005)
• "Regional Developments in Virginia," talk before the Virginia Association of Economists, (March 2005)
• "Virginia's 2004 Tax and Budget Actions: What Was Done and What Remains to be Done," Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Fall 2004)
• "Virginia's Budget Problem," letter to the editor, Richmond Times Dispatch, March 28, 2004
• "Virginia's Unemployment Insurance Program," University of Virginia's The Virginia News Letter (December 2003)
• "Revenue Adequacy, Not Just Restructuring, Should Be Goal," Op-ed article in the Virginian Pilot, October 14, 2003
• "Does Virginia Need a constitutional Amendment to Constrain the Growth of State Government," Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Fall 2003)
  
• "Demographic & Economic Profile of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission Area," co-authored with Megan C. Moyer and Allison E. Wiley, September 12, 2003
• "Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 2000" Cooper Center Spotlight article, February, 2003
• "Economics of Virginia's Fiscal Dilemma," Remarks before Senior Statesman Organization, January 8, 2003
• "Comments about the Recommendation to Create a Permanent Fiscal Studies Commission," Remarks before the Joint Sub-Committee to Study and Revise Virginia's Tax Code, August 16, 2002
• "The Main Issue: Tax Structure or Revenue Adequacy?" Presentation at VAPDC Conference, July 18, 2002
• "'Revenue Adequacy' Should Trump 'Revenue Neutral'," Op-ed article in the Virginian Pilot, June 30, 2002
• "Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 1999," Cooper Center Spotlight article, January 2002
• "The Fiscal Condition of the Commonwealth," Presentation at Conference on Virginia's Future, November 29, 2001
• "Terrorism's Financial Fallout: Virginia in Denial About a Dour Outlook," Op-ed article in the Washington Post, September 30, 2001
• "Recent Developments in the Virginia Economy," Cooper Center Business and Economics Section News Letter (March, 2001)
• "Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 1998," Cooper Center Business and Economics Section Research Notes (January, 2001)
• "Should Virginia Adopt a Local Income Tax?" presentation to Commission on Virginia's State and Local Tax Structure for the 21st Century, Charlottesville, August 22, 2000
• "To Pay for Virginia Highways, Charging Users Makes Sense," Op-ed article in the Virginian Pilot, March 7, 2000
• "Important State-Local Government Fiscal Issues," presentation to Commission on Virginia's State and Local Tax Structure for the 21st Century, Richmond, December 14, 1999
• "Virginia State and Local Government Finance," Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Fall 1999)
• Other Publications