Brian Knight is a Professor of Economics at Brown University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously worked as an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board and has held visiting faculty positions at Yale University and Harvard University. He received his PhD in 2000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B.S. in 1992 from Miami University. Research interests include political economy, fiscal federalism, and local public finance. His research has been published in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. He is currently a co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and previously served as a co-editor at the Journal of Public Economics. He has also served on the Editorial Board at the American Economic Review.