Experts
Gerard F. Anderson
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Gerard F. Anderson, PhD is a professor of health policy and management and professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is currently conducting research on chronic conditions, comparative insurance systems in developing countries, medical education, health care payment reform, and technology diffusion.
Featured Work:
- Expanding Priorities - Confronting Chronic Disease in Countries with Low Income Gerard F. Anderson and E. Chu. New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356(3):209-211, January 18, 2007.
- From 'Soak the Rich' to 'Soak the Poor': Recent Trends in Hospital Pricing Gerard F. Anderson. Health Affairs, Vol. 26(3):780-789, May/June 2007.
- Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Gap "Navigating the 'Doughnut Hole' With Patients" Gerard F. Anderson, S.A. Berkowitz and G. Gerstenblith. JAMA, Vol. 297(8): 868-870, February 28, 2007.
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Reuven specializes in international taxation and international law, and is widely published in these subject areas.
Featured Work:
- Comparative Fiscal Federalism: Comparing the European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court's Tax Jurisprudence, James R. Hines Jr. and M. Lang, co-editors. The Hague, Netherlands: Kluwer. 2007.
- International Tax as International Law: U.S. Tax Law and the International Tax Regime, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007 (forthcoming.)
Michael S. Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Michael S. Barr is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches Financial Institution Regulation, International Financial Regulation, Transnational Law, and Jurisdiction and Choice of Law. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Featured Work:
- Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households, with Rebecca Blank, Co-Editor. Russel Sage Press, forthcoming.
- Building Inclusive Financial Systems: A Framework for Financial Access, with Anjali Kumar and Robert Litan, Co-Editors. Brookings Institution Press, 2007.
Lily Batchelder
Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy, New York University School of Law
Lily's research focuses on income taxation, wealth transfer taxation, income volatility, and social insurance.
Featured Work:
- Efficiency and Tax Incentives: The Case for Refundable Tax Credits, 59 Stanford Law Review 23 (2006) (with Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. and Peter R. Orszag).
- Taxing the Poor: Income Averaging Reconsidered, 40 Harvard Journal on Legislation 395 (2003).
Andrew Caplin
Professor of Economics, New York University
Andrew Caplin is professor of economics at New York University and the co-director of NYU's Center for Experimental Social Science. He conducts theoretical research in microeconomics, macroeconomics, political economy, economics and psychology, and neuroeconomics, as well as survey research on patterns of life cycle wealth accumulation and decumulation.
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Kimberly A. Clausing
Professor of Economics, Reed College
Kim's current research studies the taxation of multinational firms, exploring how international tax incentives affect international trade, government revenues, and the location of economic activity.
Featured Work:
- Corporate Tax Revenues in OECD Countries, International Tax and Public Finance, 14, April 2007, 115-33.
- International Tax Avoidance and U.S. International Trade, National Tax Journal, 59(2), June 2006, 269-87.
- The Role of U.S. Tax Policy in Offshoring, Susan Collins and Lael Brainard, eds. Brookings Trade Forum: Offshoring White-Collar Work. 2006. Washington: Brookings. 457-482.
Noël B. Cunningham
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Professor Cunningham's teaching and scholarship has focused mainly on tax policy and the taxation of partnerships. He has written on a variety of diverse issues including the taxation of imputed income, the preference for capital gains and taxing capital income.
Featured Work:
- The Logic of Subchapter K: A Conceptual Guide to the Taxation of Partnerships, with Laura E. Cunningham. 3rd Edition, West 2006.
- The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, with Mitchell Engler. 61 Tax L. Rev. (2008).
Akash Deep
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
A Senior Lecturer at Harvard University, Akash Deep is an expert in financial risk management and derivatives, infrastructure finance, financial institutions, and pension funds. He has provided policy advice to various governments as well as international institutions such as the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations and the Bank for International Settlements.
Featured Work:
- Putting Pension Funds to Work at Home: New Financial Instruments for Old Liabilities, Akash Deep and Heather Rowan, Report to the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, 2005.
- Housing Markets and Economic Growth: Lessons from the US Refinancing Boom, Akash Deep and Dietrich Domanski, BIS Quarterly Review, September 2002.
- A Firm Foundation for Project Finance, The Financial Times, June 6, 2001.
Greg J. Duncan
Edwina S. Tarry Professor, Northwestern University
Greg J. Duncan is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. An economist, Duncan has conducted research on poverty and welfare dynamics and their links to children's achievement and other development outcomes.
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