Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2013: Joel B. Slemrod

The 2013 award winner is Professor Joel B. Slemrod, 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 at the Ross School of Business. He has been an active CESifo Research Network Member since August 1999.

Professor Slemrod has made vast contributions to research on all aspects of taxation and tax policy. Based on his expertise, Professor Slemrod has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Canadian Department of Finance, the New Zealand Department of Treasury, the South African Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, and the OECD.

On 11 April 2013, as part of his visiting professorship, he delivered the fifth Richard Musgrave Lecture on the topic of "Insights from a Tax-Systems Perspective".