For more information regarding Joel Slemrod’s receipt of the Daniel M. Holland Award at the 2012 National Tax Association Annual Meeting, pictures, and the student’s reflections on attending the NTA, please see the OTPR December 2012 newsletter.
Forty-nine OTPR-affiliated alumni, current students, and guests gathered to celebrate with Joel in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 2012.
November 9-11, 2017 This year’s NTA meetings were particularly exciting for a number of reasons: Jacob Bastian received the co-Dissertation Award, Sara LaLumia received the Best NTJ Paper Award, and Jim Hines received the Holland Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Can we say that Michigan was in the house?!!! Jacob is being congratulated by NTA President Victoria Perry. Jim surrounded by…
June 8-9, 2012 Ross School of Business,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi On June 8-9, 2012, OTPR hosted the second Michigan Tax Invitational. Papers were divided into these five categories: international, evasion and enforcement, state and local tax issues, rethinking received tax wisdom, and behavioral responses to taxation. In all, 17 papers were presented and…
The Office of Tax Policy Research recently hosted the 67th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance. Over 350 people from 30 countries attended this 4-day event that included 5 Keynote Speakers, 75 sessions, and over 250 papers. On the second day of the Congress, participants went on an excursion to the Henry…
OTPR’s fourth Michigan Tax Invitational (M-TAXI) was held on June 10-11, 2016. Once again, more than 55 current and former OTPR-affiliated alumni convened in Ann Arbor for this 1 1/2-day conference. Alumni from 1994 through 2014 included academics in accounting, law, and economics, as well as the business community — Ford Motor Credit Company. In addition, members of…
No, the word is not spelled incorrectly. I am sure that many of you are wondering what “Fowling” is — it is a combination of football and bowling — really! In May 2017, several cars filled with OTPR faculty, staff, and Ph.D. students drove to Hamtramck, MI, where the fowling warehouse is located. Our first…
This year’s International Institute of Public Finance’s 73rd Annual Congress was held in Tokyo, Japan. The OTPR Family was well represented with the following attendees: Claudio Agostini (2003), David Agrawal (2012), Jacob Bastian (2017), Sutirtha Bagchi (2014), Estelle Dauchy (2007), Enda Hargaden (2016), Makoto Hasegawa (2013), Ryo Ishida (2015), Laura Kalambokidis (1992), Sara LaLumia (2006), Ben Meiselman (2017), Eric Ohrn (2014), Nathan Seegert (2013),…
