Joel Slemrod, Director - Ross Office of Tax Policy Research at the Michigan Ross School of Business

Joel Slemrod is the 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 Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research center housed at the Ross School of Business. Professor Slemrod received a B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1980. Professor Slemrod has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Canadian Department of Finance, the New Zealand Department of Treasury, the South Africa Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, and the OECD. From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was editor of the National Tax Journal. In 2005-6, he was president of the National Tax Association and, from 2015 to 2018, was president of the International Institute of Public Finance. In 2012 he received from the National Tax Association its most prestigious award, the Daniel M. Holland Medal for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of public finance. He is the co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, now in its fifth edition; with Leonard E. Burman of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, now in its second edition; and with Christian Gillitzer of Tax Systems, published in 2014. His book with Michael Keen, Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2021.

Books

Tax Systems By Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2014).
Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know By Joel Slemrod and Leonard E. Burman, Oxford University Press, New York, NY (2012).
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes By Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (5th edition to be published in 2017).
Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century Edited by Alan J. Auerbach, James R. Hines Jr., and Joel Slemrod, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2007).
Behavioral Public Finance Edited by Edward J. McCaffery and Joel Slemrod, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY (2006).
Fiscal Reform in Colombia: Problems and Prospects Edited by Richard M. Bird, James M. Poterba, and Joel Slemrod, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2005).
The Crisis in Tax Administration Edited by Henry Aaron and Joel Slemrod, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004).
Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation Edited by William G. Gale, James R. Hines Jr., and Joel Slemrod, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2001).
Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich Edited by Joel Slemrod, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY and Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (2000).
Tax Policy in the Real World Edited by Joel Slemrod, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (1999).
The Taxation of Multinational Corporations Edited by Joel Slemrod, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (1996).
Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality Edited by Joel Slemrod, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (1994).
Studies in International Taxation Edited by Alberto Giovannini, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Joel Slemrod, National Bureau of Economic Research and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1993).
Why People Pay Taxes: Tax Compliance and Enforcement Edited by Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI (1992).
Do Taxes Matter? The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 Edited by Joel Slemrod, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1992).
Taxation in the Global Economy Edited by Assaf Razin and Joel Slemrod, National Bureau of Economic Research and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1990).

Working Papers

Emily Y. Lin, Joel Slemrod, and Evelyn Smith, “Who’s on (the 1040) First? Determinants and Consequences of Spouses’ Name Order on Joint Returns”
Alexander Yuskavage, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department
Kyle D. Logue and Joel Slemrod, “Genes as Tags: The Tax Implications of Widely Available Genetic Information.”
Austan Goolsbee, Michael Lovenheim, and Joel Slemrod, “Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes, and Competition from the Internet.”
Keith J. Crocker and Joel Slemrod, “The Economics of Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Compensation.”
Joel Slemrod, “Taxation and Big Brother: Information, Personalization, and Privacy in 21st Century Tax Policy,” October 2005.
Joel Slemrod, “My Beautiful Tax Reform,” March 2005.
Michelle Hanlon, Lillian Mills, and Joel Slemrod, “An Empirical Examination of Corporate Tax Noncompliance,” June 2005.
Joel Slemrod, “The Economics of Corporate Tax Selfishness,” September 2004.
Keith J. Crocker and Joel Slemrod, “Corporate Tax Evasion with Agency Costs,” July 2004.
Jon Bakija and Joel Slemrod, “Do the Rich Flee from High State Taxes? Evidence from Federal Estate Tax Returns, July 2004.
Roger H. Gordon, Laura Kalambokidis, Jeffrey Rohaly, and Joel Slemrod, “Toward a Consumption Tax and Beyond, June 2004.
Joel Slemrod and Varsha Venkatesh, “The Income Tax Compliance Cost of Large and Mid-Size Businesses,” April 2004.
Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod, “Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys,” July 2003.
Wojciech Kopczuk, Joel Slemrod, and Shlomo Yitzhaki, “Why World Redistribution Fails,” September 2002.
Joel Slemrod and Peter Katuscak, “Do Trust and Trustworthiness Pay Off?” September 2002.
oel Slemrod, “Trust in Public Finance,” September 2002.
Joel Slemrod, “Are Corporate Tax Rates, or Countries, Converging?” July 2001.
William G. Gale and Joel Slemrod, “Rethinking Estate and Gift Tax: Overview,” January 2001.
Joel Slemrod and Shlomo Yitzhaki, “Integrating Expenditure and Tax Decisions: The Marginal Cost of Funds and the Marginal Benefits of Projects,” February 2001.
Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod, “Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity,” February 2001.
William G. Gale and Joel Slemrod, “We Tax Dead People,” October 2000.
Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod, “The Impact of the Estate Tax on the Wealth Accumulation and AvoidanceBehavior of Donors,” June 2000.
Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija, “Does Growing Inequality Reduce Tax Progressivity? Should It?” February 1999.
Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk, “The Optimal Elasticity of Taxable Income,” November 1998.
Joel Slemrod, “Methodological Issues in Measuring and Interpreting Taxable Income Elasticities,” August 1998.
Roger H. Gordon and Joel Slemrod, “Are ‘Real’ Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases?” December 1997.
Joel Slemrod, “The Economics of Taxing the Rich,” February 1998.
Joel Slemrod, “Measuring Taxpayer Burden and Attitudes for Large Corporations: 1996 and 1992 Survey Results,” March 1997.
Joel Slemrod, Carl Hansen and Roger Procter, “The Seesaw Principle in International Tax Policy,” April 1994.
Joel Slemrod and Marsha Blumenthal, “The Income Tax Compliance Cost of Business,” July 1993.
Joel Slemrod, Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality: Introduction, May 1993.
Joel Slemrod, “On the High-Income Laffer Curve,” March 1993.
Joel Slemrod, “The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on Foreign Direct Investment to and from the United States,” December 1989.
Joel Slemrod, “Do Taxes Matter?: The Economic Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986,” January 1990.