Therese McGuire

ConAgra Brands Research Professorship in Strategic Management Professor of Strategy at Kellogg School of Management

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  • Kellogg School of Management

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Biography

Kellogg School of Management

Therese J. McGuire is Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. McGuire's areas of expertise are state and local public finance, fiscal decentralization, property tax limitations, education finance, and regional economic development. She has written about and worked with various governments on state tax reform and on the impact of taxes on economic growth. In 1989 McGuire worked with a blue-ribbon commission and directed a study of revenues and expenditures for the State of Arizona. McGuire was President of the National Tax Association in 1999-2000, as well as the editor of the NTA's academic journal, the National Tax Journal from 2001 until 2009. Her publications have appeared in the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Urban Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, and the Journal of Public Economics. McGuire has a B.A. with a dual major in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

Research Interests

State and local public finance, fiscal decentralization, property taxes, education finance, regional economic development, tax incentives

Education

  • PhD, 1983, Economics, Princeton University
  • BA, 1978, Economics, Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Phi Beta Kappa

Academic Positions

  • Director, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1-present
  • Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1-present
  • Department Chair, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1-present
  • Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1-present

Awards

  • Steven D. Gold Award, National Tax Association (in conjunction with APPAM and NCSL), 2018
  • Alumni-Master Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2010
  • President, National Tax Association, 99-00
  • Alumni Achievement Award, Wisner-Pilger High School, 89-89

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Cases

Garcia-Mila, Teresa and Therese J. McGuire. 2002. Tax Incentives and the City. Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs.

It is difficult to justify tax incentives within the existing economics literature on tax competition. We develop a model in which communities are interested in attracting firms not only for their own capital but also for the "concentration externalities," a form of agglomeration economies, their location bestows on existing firms. We find that it is efficient in this case for communities to offer tax incentives, defined as a tax rate below the benefit tax level, to firms. We present the recent relocation of the Boeing Corporation's headquarters from Seattle to Chicago as a case study.

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