James R. Hines Jr (Michigan) presents The Greatest Revenue Generation at Irvine, as part of its Graduate Tax Policy Colloquium:

Professor James R. Hines Jr. is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and co-director of the Program in Law and Economics at Michigan Law. He is also the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in U-M’s Department of Economics and serves as the research director of the Office of Tax Policy Research in U-M’s Ross School of Business.

Professor Hines’s research focuses on various aspects of taxation. He taught at Princeton and Harvard universities before joining the U-M faculty in 1997 and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University; the London School of Economics; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Melbourne; and Harvard Law School.

In 2017 he received the National Tax Association’s Daniel M. Holland Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of public finance.

He is past president of the American Law & Economics Association, current president of the International Institute of Public Finance, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, and a former co-editor of the American Economic Association’s Journal of Economic Perspectives; once, long ago, he was an economist in the US Department of Commerce.