Joel Slemrod

Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Ross School, Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Joel Slemrod is the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business, and Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics, at the University of Michigan. 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 the Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1980. Before coming to Michigan he was Assistant Professor, from 1979 to 1985 and Associate Professor from 1985 to 1987, at the University of Minnesota. In 1983-84 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and in 1984-85 he was the Senior 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, and the World Bank, as well as to Marriott International and Merck & Co., Inc. He has been a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, and has testified before the Congress on domestic and international taxation issues. From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was Editor of the National Tax Journal and from 2006 to 2010 was Co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2005-6, he was President of the National Tax Association. He is co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, whose fifth edition will be published in 2013, and with Len Burman of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, published in 2012. In 2012 he received from the National Tax Association its most prestigious award, the Daniel M. Holland Medal for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of public finance.