Room: 205
918 Emmet Street, North
Phone: (434) 982-5604
E-mail: knapp@virginia.edu 

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
M.A., Duke University, Durham, NC
Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

EXPERTISE
Economic development
Forecasting
Regional economics
State and local government finance

MAJOR PROJECTS
Annual tax rates survey for Virginia localities
Series describing and analyzing Virginia's twenty-one local economies 
VaStat, a statistical resource maintained on the web 

EXPERIENCE
Deputy Director, Tayloe Murphy Institute, University of Virginia 
Deputy Director, Virginia Division of State Planning and Community Affairs
Economist, Virginia Division of Industrial Development and Planning
Assistant Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Private Consultant
Former member, Governor's Advisory Board of Economists 

PUBLICATIONS
    * "Virginia's Budget Problem," letter to the editor, Richmond Times Dispatch, March 28, 2004  
   * "Virginia's Unemployment Insurance Program," University of Virginia's The Virginia News Letter (December 2003)
   * "Does Virginia Need a Consitutional Amendment to Constrain the Growth of State Government,"
Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Fall 2003)
   * "Revenue Adequacy, Not Just Restructuring, Should Be Goal," Op-ed article in the
Virginian Pilot, October 14, 2003 
   * "Demographic & Economic Profile of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission Area,"
co-authored with Megan C. Moyer and Allison E. Wiley, September 12, 2003
   * "Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 2000" Cooper Center Spotlight article, February, 2003 
   * "Economics of Virginia's Fiscal Dilemma" Remarks before Senior Statesman Organization, January 8, 2003
   * "Comments about the Recommendation to Create a Permanent Fiscal Studies Commission"
Remarks before the Joint Sub-Committee to Study and Revise Virginia's Tax Code, August 16, 2002
   * "The Main Issue: Tax Structure or Revenue Adequacy?" Presentation at VAPDC Conference, July 18, 2002
   * "'Revenue Adequacy' Should Trump 'Revenue Neutral'." Op-ed article in the Virginian Pilot, June 30, 2002
   * "Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 1999" Cooper Center Spotlight article, January 2002
   * "The Fiscal Condition of the Commonwealth," Presentation at Conference on Virginia's Future,
November 29, 2001
   *  "Terrorism's Financial Fallout: Virginia in Denial About a Dour Outlook," Op-ed article in the Washington Post,
September 30, 2001
  * "Recent Developments in the Virginia Economy." Cooper Center Business and Economics Section
News Letter (March, 2001)
  *  "Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 1998," Cooper Center Business and Economics Section
Research Notes (January, 2001) 
  * "Should Virginia Adopt a Local Income Tax?" presentation to Commission on Virginia's State and Local
Tax Structure for the 21st Century, Charlottesville, August 22, 2000
  *   "To Pay for Virginia Highways, Charging Users Makes Sense," Op-ed article in the Virginian Pilot,
March 7, 2000
  *  "Important State-Local Government Fiscal Issues," presentation to Commission on Virginia's State and
Local Tax Structure for the 21st Century, Richmond, December 14, 1999
  *  "Virginia State and Local Government Finance," Virginia Tech's Virginia Issues and Answers (Fall 1999)
  *  Other Publications