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Harvey Rosen
My main field of research is public finance. I teach undergraduate courses in public finance, taxation, and introductory microeconomics, and graduate courses in public finance. I have published several dozen articles in scholarly journals on this topic, and authored an undergraduate textbook on it as well. I presently serve on the editorial boards of several journals dealing with public finance and taxation. I also served in the US Treasury as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax Analysis). During a second stint in Washington from 2003 to 2005, I served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, first as a Member and then as Chairman. In this capacity, I provided advice to the White House on a wide variety of policy issues, including tax reform, social security, health care, energy, the federal budget, and financial market regulation. Visit WebsitePublications Public Finance
This book incorporates both an empirical and theoretical approach and reflects major changes to key topics. New or revised information includes explanations of the Social Security trust fund, a new section on the alternative minimum tax (AMT), possible links between the corporation tax and high-profile scandals such as Enron, and more. 
The Fiscal Behavior of State and Local Governments
How are state and local spending and taxing decisions influenced by the economic environment in which they operate? Rosen investigates the effect of tax structure on the growth of expenditure, the influence of the level of expenditure of neighboring governments, and the impact of the federal income tax on the fiscal structure of state and local governments. Relying on the tools of modern dynamic analysis to shed new light on state and local behavior in an intertemporal setting, Rosen uses both panel and aggregate data. In addition, he discusses the problems involved in characterizing state tax structure. Finally, he explores a number of methodological issues relating to the theory and econometrics of tax analysis. |
