Joel Slemrod

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 the David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics. He also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research center housed at the Ross School of Business.

Professor Slemrod received the A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1973 and the Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1980. Before coming to Michigan he was assistant professor, from 1979 to 1985 and associate professor from 1985 to 1987, at the University of Minnesota. In 1983-84 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and in 1984-85 he was the senior economist for tax policy at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. 

From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was editor of the National Tax Journal and from 2006 to 2010 was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.  In 2005-6, he was president of the National Tax Association and, as of 2015, he is president of the International Institute of Public Finance. He is co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, now in its fifth edition; with Len Burman of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, published in 2012; and with Christian Gillitzer of Tax Systems, published in 2014.  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. In 2015 he received the Atkinson Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics over the previous three years.

Affiliation(s)

• Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business
  
• Director, Office of Tax Policy Research, Ross School of Business

Research Area(s)

• Taxation