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Justin Marlowe

Columnist

Justin Marlowe is a research professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, and he has published five books — including the first open-access textbook on public financial management — and more than 100 articles on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, financial disclosure, public financial technology and public-private private partnerships. He is an admitted expert witness in federal and state courts, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the state of Washington, the California state auditor, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other public, private and nonprofit organizations. Prior to academia he worked in local government in Michigan. He is a Certified Government Financial Manager and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Deep within the Affordable Care Act is a tax break that could help a lot of budgets.
Local income taxes were once blamed for causing businesses to flee to the suburbs. Not anymore.
The most sophisticated risk managers in the world invest in state and local governments. So why are Americans so hesitant?
There’s disagreement over who bears the biggest burden: the poor or the wealthy.
Their drive to make a meaningful impact could provide the public sector a new pool of investors.
They may not show up in the bottom line.
Financial statements can make the best case for public works investors.
'Overlapping' is often ignored, resulting in misleading assumptions about government liabilities.
Does a sullied past haunt a bond issuer’s future?
"Blended" models have the potential to bridge some big gaps in infrastructure finance.