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Nirupama Rao, Research Associate

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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 on firm production, investment, and pricing decisions. She has studied how excise taxes on oil production affect the extraction decisions of domestic producers and the effectiveness of federal tax credits for R&D and investigated the composition and importance of corporate deferred taxes. In another work, she has examined how regulation and taxation interact in alcohol markets and the implications of pricing behavior for tax pass-through. Professor Rao is a recipient of the National Tax Association Dissertation Award. Rao completed her Ph.D. in economics at MIT in June 2010 where she previously earned her undergraduate degree. Prior to graduate school, she worked at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She recently served as a Senior Economist from 2015 through 2016 at the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C.

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