Claim: Dennis Epple's (Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business) research focuses on political economics, the economics of education, and public finance; more specifically, the Tiebout hypothesis, public decision-making, financing and provision of private and public goods and services in local settings
Evidence: Dennis N. Epple is a US American economist and currently the Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. Dennis Epple's research focuses on political economics, the economics of education, and public finance. More specifically, influenced by the Tiebout hypothesis, Epple has extensively published on the public decision-making, financing and provision of private and public goods and services in local settings, e.g. on fiscal decentralization.