Professor Joel Slemrod recently spoke at the International Institute of Public Finance’s Annual Congress held in Lugano, Switzerland. OTPR was well represented at IIPF by our affiliated alumni either presenting or co-authoring papers (including one of our current students)! Claudio Agostini (2003) David Agrawal (2012) Sebastien Bradley (2011) Estelle Dauchy (2007) Naomi Feldman (2004) Makoto…
More photos of both the Subnational Government Competition and M-TAXI conferences can be found in the July issue of the OTPR newsletter. In addition, we have started a new feature recognizing the achievements of OTPR-affiliated alumni; please be sure to share with us any of your accomplishments. Lastly, Part 1 of the OTPR Family Tree has been completed…
OTPR’s third Michigan Tax Invitational (M-TAXI) was held on June 6 – 7, 2014. More than 55 current and former OTPR-affiliated alumni convened in Ann Arbor for this 1 1/2-day conference. Alumni from 1997 through 2013 included academics in accounting and economics, as well as members of the Federal Reserve Board, U.S. Department of the…
In April 2014, we teamed up with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Center for Business and Economic Research) and the University of Georgia (Department of Economics) to convene leading academic economists and accountants to study competition in subnational governments and urban areas, and present their findings in an open conference. The competition was studied and presented…
