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Personnel
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Joel
Slemrod
Joel Slemrod is the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the
Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of
Michigan, and Professor of Economics in the Department
of Economics. He also serves as Director of the Office
of Tax Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research
center housed at the Business School.
Professor Slemrod received the A.B. degree from
Princeton University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in economics
from Harvard University in 1980. He joined the economics
department at the University of Minnesota in 1979. In
1983-84 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover
Institution and in 1984-85 he was the senior staff
economist for tax policy at the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers.
Professor Slemrod has been a consultant to the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, the Canadian Department of
Finance, the New Zealand Department of Treasury, the
South Africa Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, and
the OECD. He has testified before the Congress on
domestic and international taxation issues.
From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was editor of the
National Tax Journal, the leading academic journal
devoted to the theory and practice of taxation. He is
the author of numerous academic articles and editor of
the books Do Taxes Matter? The Impact of the Tax
Reform Act of 1986, Taxation in the Global Economy, Why
People Pay Taxes: Tax Compliance and Enforcement,
Studies in International Taxation, Tax Progressivity and
Income Inequality, The Taxation of Multinational
Corporations, Tax Policy in the Real World, Does Atlas
Shrug? The Economics of Taxing the Rich, Rethinking
Estate and Gift Taxation, The Crisis in Tax
Administration, Fiscal Reform in Colombia: Problems and
Prospects, Behavioral Public Finance, and Taxing
Corporate Income in the 21st Century. He is the
co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A
Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, whose 4th
edition will be published in 2007.
http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/jslemrod/
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James Hines
James Hines teaches at the University of Michigan,
where he is the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor
of Economics in the department of economics and
Professor of Law in the law school. He also serves as
Research Director of the business school’s Office of Tax
Policy Research. His research concerns various aspects
of taxation. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Yale
University and a Ph.D. from Harvard, all in economics.
He taught at Princeton and Harvard prior to moving to
Michigan in 1997, and has held visiting appointments at
Columbia, the London School of Economics, and Harvard
Law School.
He is a research associate of the National Bureau of
Economic Research, research director of the
International Tax Policy Forum, co-editor of the
American Economic Association’s Journal of Economic
Perspectives, and once, long ago, was an economist in
the United States Department of Commerce.
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David Albouy
 David
Albouy researches differences in federal taxation and
spending across regions, how these impact local
economies, and are influenced by political
representation. He has developed a model to estimate
inter-urban differences in wage levels and
costs-of-living to determine the quality of life and
productivity of American and Canadian cities. These
estimates are used to value public infrastructure and
investigate how quality of life is affected by climate
amenities, so as to predict how climate change may
affect future welfare. Albouy is also known for work on
the economics of language and the impact of institutions
on development. He is currently looking at whether
cities are under-sized, and how land-use restrictions
may lower land values and raise housing costs.
Albouy is on the editorial board of the Journal of
Economic Geography and is a Faculty Research Fellow at
the National Bureau of Economic Research. |
Daniel Silverman
Professor Silverman's
research bridges public and labor economics. Currently
his research focuses on theories and evidence of
non-market determinants of market outcomes. He has
studied how government welfare policies, social
arrangements, and psychological biases influence labor
supply and wages.
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Mary Ceccanese
 Mary Ceccanese received her B.A. in Human Resource
Administration (summa cum laude) from Concordia College
in 1992. She is in her 20th year of working in the
Office of Tax Policy Research at the Stephen M. Ross
School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is
responsible for coordinating all of the ongoing
activities of OTPR including project management,
financial and grant administration, publication and
editorial coordination.
From 1992 to 1998, Ms. Ceccanese was the editorial
assistant for the National Tax Journal. |
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