Year: 2017

National Tax Association Annual Meetings in Philadelphia 

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…

IIPF Congress in Tokyo

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),…

Fowling???

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…

OTPR Newsletter

February 2017 The February 2017 issue of the OTPR Newsletter has just been published. There are many pictures and updates so be sure to check it out.   The Newsletter also provides information about our upcoming 30th Anniversary, which begins on July 1, 2017, and runs through June 20, 2018.  Do you have any brilliant ideas we should consider to…