2026 Robin Boadway: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	57	958	854	21	18	352	11353

Research.com Recognitions

1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Robin Boadway is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and specializes in fields related to economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting. The primary area of expertise centers on economics and econometrics, along with significant contributions to accounting and gender studies.

Their research focuses on a range of topics, including:

Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Taxation and Compliance Studies
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Politics, Economics, and Education Policy
Corporate Finance and Governance

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated with Boadway on multiple publications. These include Katherine Cuff, Pierre Pestieau, Jean-François Tremblay, Kevin Spiritus, and Motohiro Sato.

Publication outlets for Boadway's work are diverse but consistently aligned with public finance and economics. Frequent venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne
Journal of Public Economic Theory
FinanzArchiv Public Finance Analysis
International Tax and Public Finance

Boadway has authored multiple recent academic papers, notable among them are:

Optimal Taxation of Normal and Excess Returns to Risky Assets, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
A Generalization of the Deaton-Hellwig Results on Uniform Commodity Taxation, 2022, Journal of Public Economics
Optimal Taxation of Normal and Excess Returns to Risky Assets, 2024, Scandinavian Journal of Economics
An Annual Wealth Tax: Pros and Cons, 2021, FinanzArchiv Public Finance Analysis
Efficiency and the Taxation of Bank Profits, 2020, International Tax and Public Finance

In addition to articles, Boadway has contributed to academic literature through book publication. One notable title is Tax Policy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

The work spans interdisciplinary subfields, reflecting contributions to economics and econometrics, accounting, gender studies, political science and international relations, and finance.

Recognition of Boadway's academic contributions includes fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, awarded in 1986 under the Academy of Social Sciences section.

Best Publications

Public sector economics

Robin W. Boadway

829
Citations
Efficiency and equalization payments in a federal system of government : a synthesis and extensions of recent results

Robin Boadway;Frank Flatters

596
Citations
An empirical analysis of intergovernmental tax interaction: the case of business income taxes in Canada

Masayoshi Hayashi;Robin Boadway

409
Citations
A general proposition on the design of a neutral business tax

Robin Boadway;Neil Bruce

373
Citations
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers : Principles and Practice

Robin Boadway;Anwar Shah

351
Citations
PUBLIC GOODS, SELF-SELECTION AND OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION*

Robin Boadway;Michael Keen

346
Citations
Efficiency and the optimal direction of federal-state transfers

Robin Boadway;Michael Keen;Michael Keen

281
Citations
The Welfare Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Robin W. Boadway

270
Citations
Education and the poverty trap

Vicky Barham;Robin Boadway;Maurice Marchand;Pierre Pestieau;Pierre Pestieau

260
Citations
The Use of Public-expenditures for Redistributive Purposes

Robin Boadway;Maurice Marchand

252
Citations
Fiscal Federalism: Principles and Practice of Multiorder Governance

Robin W. Boadway;Anwar Shah

247
Citations
Towards a Theory of the Direct Indirect Tax Mix

Robin Boadway;Maurice Marchand;Pierre Pestieau

239
Citations
The consequences of overlapping tax bases for redistribution and public spending in a federation

Robin Boadway;Maurice Marchand;Marianne Vigneault

219
Citations
The Theory and Practice of Equalization

Robin Boadway

202
Citations
Optimal Redistribution with Heterogeneous Preferences for Leisure

Robin Boadway;Maurice Marchand;Pierre Pestieau;Maria Del Mar Racionero

188
Citations
Tax-transfer Policies and the Voluntary Provision of Public-goods

Robin Boadway;Pierre Pestieau;David Wildasin

186
Citations
Taxation of wealth and wealth transfers

Robin Boadway;Emma Chamberlain;Carl Emmerson

177
Citations
A Median Voter Model of Social Security

Robin W. Boadway;David E. Wildasin

173
Citations
Taxation, Inflation, and the Effective Marginal Tax Rate on Capital in Canada

Robin Boadway;Neil Bruce;Jack Mintz

153
Citations
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers : Principles and Practice

Robin Boadway;Anwar Shah

145
Citations
On the Method of Taxation and the Provision of Local Public Goods: Comment.

Robin Boadway

134
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Pestieau University of Liège

Michael Keen University of Tokyo

David E. Wildasin University of Kentucky

Jack M. Mintz University of Calgary

Neil C. Bruce University of York

Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick

Michel Beine University of Luxembourg

Jacques H. Dreze Université Catholique de Louvain

Erik Schokkaert KU Leuven

Philippe Van Parijs Université Catholique de Louvain

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