Our People

Joel Slemrod,
Director

David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics, 
Department of Economics;
Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy,
Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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James Hines,
Research Director

James R. Hines  Jr. is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and co-director of the Law and Economics Program at Michigan Law. Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in the department of economics.

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Ann Cornicelli,
Administrator

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Nirupama Rao,
Research Associate

Nirupama Rao is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Her research concerns the economic effects of fiscal policy, focusing on the impact of policy.

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Amanda Kowalski,
Research Associate

Amanda Kowalski, the Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Department of Economics, is a health economist who specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques.

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Ashley Craig,
Research Associate

Ashley Craig is a public and labor economist. His current research focuses on human capital investment, taxation, and inequality – especially in environments in which beliefs are formed based on imperfect information.

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Claudio Agostini,
International Affiliate

Claudio Agostini is a Professor of Economics at the School of Government at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile. He also serves as the President of the Chilean Society of Public Policy, and the editor of Economía y Política.

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Laura Kawano,
Research Affiliate

Laura Kawano is a Research Affiliate with the Office of Tax Policy Research in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She was previously a financial economist in the Business and International Tax Division at the U.S. Department of Treasury.

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Luis Alejos,
Research Affiliate

Luis Alejos is an economist in the Fiscal and Municipal Management Division at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. His past work experience includes positions as Country Economist for El Salvador.

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