Marcus Berliant
Department of Economics
Washington University
Campus Box 1208
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Phone: (314) 935-8486
Fax: (314) 935-4156
e-mail: berliant@artsci.wustl.edu

Current Position
Professor of Economics and Fellow, Center in Political Economy
Washington University in St. Louis
Previous Positions
Visiting Associate in Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California
Institute of Technology, August 2002 August 2003, August 2009 February 2010
S.W. Brooks Visiting Fellow, The University of Queensland, May 1995 July 1995
Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University, February 1995 April 1995
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Rochester, July 1987 June 1994
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, June 1988 June 1989
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Rochester, July 1982 June 1987
Visitor at CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), DELTA (Paris), ERMES (Paris II PanthÈon), Academia Sinica (Taipei), Institute of Economic Research (Kyoto University), CentER for Economic Research (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), City University of HongKong, Konan University, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Center for International
Research on the Japanese Economy (University of Tokyo), various times

Teaching and Research Fields
Economic Theory / Mathematical Economics
Public Economics / Public Finance
Urban Economics / Location Theory
Microeconomics Positive Political Theory Econometrics
Research Support
June 1994 May 1997 NSF Grant # SBR-9319994 / SBR-9523940
August 1990 August 1991 NSF Grant # SES-9007800
July 1986 July 1988 NSF Grant #SES-8605629
December 1985 November 1987 NATO Research Grant #85/0775 (with Thijs ten Raa)
June 1985 May 1986 NSF Grant #SES-8420247
Professional and Government Service
Organizer, Charlie Leven Memorial Conference.
Organizer, Summer 2011 North American Meetings of the Econometric Society.
Program Chair and Organizer, Fall 2004 Midwest International Economics and Economic
Theory Meetings.
Program Committee, Association for Public Economic Theory Meetings, 1998, 2002, 2009,2012.
Organized NSF/NBER Decentralization Conferences, held at Washington University April14-16, 2000; April 3-4, 2009.
Member, Group on Tax Reform, O¢ ce of the Mayor of St. Louis, 1998.
Organized a Mini-Conference on “The Economics of City Formation and Growth” for the
Center in Political Economy, Washington University in St. Louis, March 14-16, 1997.
Program Chair, Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference, Fall 1996.
Organized a Mini-Conference on “Politics and Income Taxation” for the Center in Political
Economy, Washington University in St. Louis, November 12, 1994.
Program Committee, Econometric Society Meetings, Summer 1991.
Member, Revenue Estimating Advisory Board, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress,1989.
Junior Econometrician, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, Summers 1976, 1977,1978.
Academic Service
Member, Law and Economics Search Committee, Washington University, 2007 2008.
Member, Chair Search Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University, 2007， 2008.
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University, 2007 present.
Member, Social Sciences A¢ rmative Action Monitoring Committee, Washington University,
2007，2008.
Outside Member, Department of Political Science Recruiting Committee, 2007，2008.
Director of Faculty Recruiting, Department of Economics, Washington University, 2005， 2008.
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University, 2005 ，2008.
Member, Chair Search Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University, 2003，2005.
Member, Committee on the Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science,
Regional Science Association International, 1999 2004. Chair 2000-2001.
National Tax Association Dissertation Prize Committee, 1999.
Running Urban Issues Seminar, Washington University, 1998， 2002.
Placement Director, Department of Economics, Washington University, 1997 2002, 2003， 2004, 2010 present.
Placement Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University, 1996 ，1997.
Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of Economics, University of Rochester, 1991，1992.
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of Rochester, July 1985，June 1988.
Dissertation
Title: A General Equilibrium Model of an Economy with Land
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Date of Completion: July 1982
Supervisor: Professor G. Debreu
Ph.D. Received: December 1982
Pre-Doctoral Studies
Institution Degree Date Fields
University of California, Berkeley M.A. June 1981 Statistics
Cornell University B.A. June 1977 College Scholar in Econ/Math/Comp Sci

Fellowships, Scholarships, & Honors
Listed in various editions of Whoís Who in the World, Whoís Who in America, and Whoís
Who in Finance and Business
2007 Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, Graduate Student Senate of Arts and Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis
2005 Fellow of the Regional Science Association International
2003 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award
2002-2003 Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society
2002 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Student Senate of Arts and Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis
2000 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Student Senate of Arts and Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis
1984 Fulbright Fellowship, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1983 Finalist, NTA/TIA Dissertation Competition
1980-81 RegentsíFellow, University of California, Berkeley
1978-79 Flood Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
1974-77 College Scholar, Cornell University
Publications
“Measuring the Distribution of Personal Taxes,” with R.P. Strauss in What Role for Government? ed. by R. Zeckhauser and D. Leebaert (Duke University Press, 1982).
“A Characterization of the Demand for Land,”Journal of Economic Theory 33 (1984) 289-
300.
“Equilibrium Models with Land: A Criticism and an Alternative,” Regional Science and
Urban Economics 15 (1985) 325-340.“The Horizontal and Vertical Equity Characteristics of the Federal Individual Income Tax,
1966-1977,”with R.P. Strauss in Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being
ed. by M. David and T. Smeeding (NBER/University of Chicago Press, 1985).
“An Equilibrium Existence Result for an Economy with Land,” Journal of Mathematical
Economics 14 (1985) 53-56.
“General Competitive Equilibrium of the Spatial Economy: Two Teasers,” with Thijs ten
Raa, Regional Science and Urban Economics 15 (1985) 585-590.
“A Utility Representation for a Preference Relation on a -Algebra,”Econometrica 54 (1986)
359-362.
“A Foundation of Location Theory: Consumer Preferences and Demand,” with Thijs ten
Raa, Journal of Economic Theory 44 (1988) 336-353; see also “Corrigendum,” Journal of
Economic Theory 58 (1992) 112-113.
“Nonlinear Supporting Prices: The Superadditive Case,”with Karl Dunz, Journal of Mathematical Economics 19 (1990) 357-367; see also Mathematical Reviews 91i:90015 (1991) p.
5182.
“On Welfare Theory and Urban Economics,”with Y.Y. Papageorgiou and Ping Wang, Regional Science and Urban Economics 20 (1990) 245-261.
“Supply and Equilibrium in an Economy with Land and Production,”with Hou-Wen Jeng,
International Economic Review 31 (1990) 799-828.
“On the Continuum Approach of Spatial and Some Local Public Goods or Product Di§erentiation Models: Some Problems,” with Thijs ten Raa, Journal of Economic Theory 55
(1991) 95-120.
“Comments on íOn the Foundations of Land Use Theory: Discrete versus Continuous Populationsíby Y. Asami, M. Fujita, and T.E. Smith,”Regional Science and Urban Economics
21 (1991) 639-645.
“On Income Taxation and the Core,”Journal of Economic Theory 56 (1992) 121-141.
“On the Fair Division of a Heterogeneous Commodity,”with Karl Dunz and William Thomson, Journal of Mathematical Economics 21 (1992) 201-216.
“Alonsoís Discrete Population Model of Land Use: E¢ cient Allocations and Competitive
Equilibria,”with Masahisa Fujita, International Economic Review 33 (1992) 535-566.
“State and Federal Tax Equity: Estimates Before and After the Tax Reform Act of 1986,”
with R.P. Strauss, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12 (1993) 9-43; reprinted inState Tax Notes 4 (1993) 1101-1122.
“Endogenous Formation of a City Without Agglomerative Externalities or Market Imperfections: Marketplaces in a Regional Economy,”with Ping Wang, Regional Science and Urban
Economics 23 (1993) 121-144.
“Equal SacriÖce and Incentive Compatible Income Taxation,”with Miguel Gouveia, Journal
of Public Economics 51 (1993) 219-240.
“Regional Science: The State of the Art,”a review of the Handbook of Regional Economics,
with Thijs ten Raa, Regional Science and Urban Economics 24 (1994) 631-647.
“Existence of Equilibrium with Nonconvexities and Finitely Many Agents,”with Karl Dunz,
Journal of Mathematical Economics 24 (1995) 83-93.
“Comments on íNice Demand Functions IIí by Trout Rader,” in Economics With No
Special Technology by Trout Rader (Input-Output Publishing Co., 1996).
“On Recent Expositions of Horizontal and Vertical Equity,”with R.P. Strauss, Public Economics Review 1 (1996) 129-150. Received the Award for the Best Paper of the Year in the
journal.
“Incentives and Income Taxation: The Implementation of Individual Revenue Requirement
Functions,”with Frank H. Page, Jr., Ricerche Economiche 50 (1996) 389-400.
“On the Revelation of Private Information in Stock Market Economies,” with Sankar De,
Journal of Mathematical Economics 30 (1998) 241-256.
“The Endogenous Formation of a City: Population Agglomeration and Marketplaces in a
Location-SpeciÖc Production Economy,” with Hideo Konishi, Regional Science and Urban
Economics 30 (2000) 289-324.
“On the Fairness Literature: Comment,”with Karl Dunz and William Thomson, Southern
Economic Journal 67 (2000) 479-484.
“On Models with an Uncongestible Public Good and a Continuum of Consumers,”with Paul
Rothstein, Journal of Urban Economics 48 (2000) 388-396.
“Income Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods: Existence of an Optimum,”with Frank
H. Page, Jr., Econometrica 69 (2001) 771-784.
“Sensitivity Analysis for Applied General Equilibrium Models in the Presence of Multiple
Walrasian Equilibria,”with Sami Dakhlia, Economic Theory 19 (2002) 459-476.
“Production Externalities and Urban ConÖguration,”with Shin-Kun Peng and Ping Wang,Journal of Economic Theory 104 (2002) 275-303. Received the Taiwanese Industrial Organization Association Outstanding Research Paper Award.
“Possibility, Impossibility and History in the Origins of the Marriage Tax,”with Paul Rothstein, National Tax Journal 56 (2003) 303-317.
“Increasing Returns and Perfect Competition: The Role of Land,” with Thijs ten Raa,
Journal of Urban Economics 54 (2003) 339-367.
“E¢ cient Allocations in Club Economies,”with John Edwards, Journal of Public Economic
Theory 6 (2004) 43-63.
“A Foundation of Location Theory: Existence of Equilibrium, the Welfare Theorems and
Core,”with Karl Dunz, Journal of Mathematical Economics 40 (2004) 593-618.
“Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth,” with Ping Wang, in Urban Dynamics and Growth: Advances in Urban Economics, edited by Pieter Nijkamp and Roberta
Capello (Elsevier, 2004).
“Salience: Agenda Choices by Competing Candidates,”with Hideo Konishi, Public Choice
125 (2005) 129-149.
“Well Isnít That Spatial?! Review of the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics:
Volume 4: Cities and Geography edited by J.V. Henderson and J.-F. Thisse,” Journal of
Economic Geography 6 (2006) 107-110.
“Hedonism vs. Nihilism: No Arbitrage and Tests of Urban Economic Models,”with Daniel
P. McMillen, Regional Science and Urban Economics 36 (2006) 118-131.
“Welfare Analysis of the Number and Locations of Local Public Facilities,”with Shin-Kun
Peng and Ping Wang, Regional Science and Urban Economics 36 (2006) 207-226.
“Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration,”with Robert Reed and Ping Wang,
Journal of Urban Economics 60 (2006) 69-95.
“Budget Balancedness and Optimal Income Taxation,”with Frank H. Page, Jr., Journal of
Public Economic Theory 8 (2006) 409-451.
“The Indeterminacy of Equilibrium City Formation Under Monopolistic Competition and
Increasing Returns,”with Fan-Chin Kung, Journal of Economic Theory 131 (2006) 101-133.
“Space in General Equilibrium,” with Courtney LaFountain, in A Companion to Urban
Economics, edited by Richard Arnott and Dan McMillen (Blackwell, 2006).
“Equilibrium and the Core in Alonsoís Discrete Population Model of Land Use,”with Thijsten Raa, International Economic Review 48 (2007) 235-246.
“Prospects for a UniÖed Urban General Equilibrium Theory,”Regional Science and Urban
Economics 37 (2007) 466-471.
“Urban Growth and Subcenter Formation: A Trolley Ride from the Staples Center to
Disneyland and the Rose Bowl,” with Ping Wang, Journal of Urban Economics 63 (2008)
679-693.
“When Worlds Collide: Di§erent Comparative Static Predictions of Continuous and Discrete
Agent Models with Land,”with Tarun Sabarwal, Regional Science and Urban Economics 38
(2008) 438-444.
“Knowledge Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert Cube,” with Masahisa Fujita, International Economic Review 49 (2008) 1251-1295.
“Dynamics of Knowledge Creation and Transfer: The Two Person Case,” with Masahisa
Fujita, International Journal of Economic Theory 5 (2009) 155-179.
“Bifurcations in Regional Migration Dynamics,”with Fan-chin Kung, Regional Science and
Urban Economics 39 (2009), 714-720.
“Review of ëMapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American Cityí by Colin
Gordon,”Journal of Regional Science 49 (2009), 998-1000.
“Central Place Theory,”in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2
nd
Edition, ed. by
S.E. Durlauf and L.E. Blume (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 734-736.
“Misbehavioral Urban Economics,”Journal of Regional Science 50 (2010), 93-101.
“Can Information Asymmetry Cause StratiÖcation?”with Fan-chin Kung, Regional Science
and Urban Economics 40 (2010), 196-209.
“The Dynamics of Knowledge Diversity and Economic Growth,” with Masahisa Fujita,
Southern Economic Journal 77 (2011), 856-884.
Papers in Progress
“Horizontal and Vertical Equity: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results for The
Federal Individual Income Tax 1966-1987,”with R.P. Strauss.
“Inequality in Optimal Income Taxation,”with Sheila H. Lin.“Incentive Compatible Income Taxation, Individual Revenue Requirements and Welfare,”
with Miguel Gouveia.
“On the Political Economy of Income Taxation,”with Miguel Gouveia.
“Labor Di§erentiation and Agglomeration in General Equilibrium,”with Yves Zenou.
“Strategic Arguments Before an Appellate Court,”with Joe Tonon.
“Optimal Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxes with No Commitment,”with John Ledyard.
“Agglomeration, Increasing Returns, Externalities and Welfare: Testable Implications and
Some Empirical Results,”with Daniel P. McMillen.
“Explaining the Size Distribution of Cities: X-treme Economies,”with Hiroki Watanabe.
“Distributional Analysis of Prospective 2009 US Individual Income Taxes: Current Law
and the CandidatesíTax Plans,”with Robert P. Strauss.
“Rational Expectations in Urban Economics,”with Charles Yu.
“Locational Signaling and Agglomeration,”with Charles Yu.
“Culture and Diversity in Knowledge Creation,”with Masahisa Fujita.
“Local Politics and Economic Geography,”with Takatoshi Tabuchi.
“Repeated Commuting”
Graduate Students Supervised
Students supervised at least in part, according to the thesis title page, in chronological order
of completion of degree. The following received degrees from the University of Rochester.
Nicholas C. Yannelis (Economics, 1983), Je§rey Hill (Political Science, 1986), Ping Wang
(Economics, 1987), Bruce Kingma (Economics, 1989), Sheila H. Lin (Economics, 1989), John
Conley (Economics, 1990), Miguel Gouveia (Economics, 1991), Takashi Suzuki (Economics,
1992), Wan-Hsiang Pan (Economics, 1993), Julian Manning (Economics, 1993), Thomas
Nechyba (Economics, 1994), Hideo Konishi (Economics, 1994), Edward Song (Economics,
1994), Neal Masia (Economics, 1995), Jiping Guo (Economics, 1996), George Clarke (Economics, 1996)The following received degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.
TJ Iijima (Economics, 1996), Sami Dakhlia (Economics, 1998), Gary Hoover (Economics,
1998), Mingmei Zheng Jones (Economics, 1999), Dino Falaschetti (Economics, 1999), Marco
Castaneda (Economics, 2000), Cheryl Xiaoning Long (Economics, 2001), James Marton
(Economics, 2001), Erik OíDonoghue (Economics, 2001), David Lang (Economics, 2002),
Fan-chin Kung (Economics, 2002), Joe Tonon (Political Science, 2003), Courtney LaFountain (Economics, 2003), Vlad Manole (Economics, 2004), Vahe Lskavyan (Economics, 2005),
Guido Cataife (Economics, 2008), Jeremy Jackson (Economics, 2008), Kevin Shaver (Economics, 2009), Charles Yu (Economics, 2011)
Journal and Foundation Service
Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics, June 1989 present
Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory, June 1997 present
Associate Editor, Papers in Regional Science, January 1999 present
Associate Editor, Journal of Regional Science, May 2000 present
Coeditor, International Journal of Economic Theory, February 2004present
Coeditor, economics, May 2006 present
Coeditor of a special issue of the International Journal of Economic Theory on optimal
income taxation, with J. Ledyard, volume 3, number 1, March 2007.
American Economic Review, American Philosophical Society, Annales díEconomie et de
Statistique, Berkeley Electronic Press, Bulletin of Economic Research, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Journal of Economics, CentER DP Series, Econometrica, Economic
Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, International Journal of Industrial
Organization, International Review of Law and Economics, International Tax and Public
Finance, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of
Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Regional
Science, Journal of Urban Economics, Lingua Franca, Location Science, Mathematical Social
Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Tax Journal, Papers in Regional Science,
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Public Finance Review, Rand Journal,
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics
of the Household, Social Choice and Welfare, Theoretical Economics

Professional Activities
Presented papers at the Econometric Society Meetings:
December 1982, June 1983, December 1983, December 1984, August 1985, December 1985,
June 1987, December 1987, June 1988, December 1989 (Organized and chaired a session as
well), August 1990, December 1990, January 1992, June 1992, June 1994, August 1995, June
1996, June 1997, June 1998, August 2000, June 2001, June 2004, August 2005, June 2006,
January 2007, July 2009, August 2010
Presented a paper with R.P. Strauss at the NBER Conference on Horizontal Equity, December 1983.
Member of NBER working group on state federal interactions, 1990-1991. Participated
in many NBER state & local public Önance workshops during this period.
Attended the NBER Conference on General Equilibrium April 1983, May 1985, March 1986,
1987, 1988, May 1989, 1991, April 1993 and May 1999. Presented a paper in May 1989,
May 1999, October 2005, October 2006, and October 2007. Rapporteur for this Conference
in 1979, 1980.
Presented a paper at the NSF/NBER Conference on Decentralization in 1998, 2003, 2007,
2008.
Member: American Economic Association
Econometric Society
National Tax Association
Regional Science Association International
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