November 12, 2004
Speaker Biographies
Eric M. Engen is a resident scholar at AEI, where his research focuses on tax and budget policy, Social Security, household saving behavior, financial markets, and the macro economy. He is currently working on a book titled Social Security Reform: Sorting out the Sense from the Nonsense. He is the author or coauthor of many academic articles that have been published in the American Economic Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Federal Reserve Bulletin, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Monetary Economics, National Tax Journal, and Tax Notes. Before joining AEI, Mr. Engen was a section chief and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. He also was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California–Los Angeles and a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received the National Tax Association’s Doctoral Dissertation Award in Government Finance and Taxation in 1992.
William M. Gentry is assistant professor of economics at Williams College. His primary research interests are in the economic effects of taxation, including the effects of the tax system on self-employment decisions, capital gains realizations, and equity prices. He has also studied the potential effects of fundamental tax reform. Before moving to Williams, Mr. Gentry taught at Duke University and Columbia University. His most recent works include "Frictions and Tax-Motivated Hedging: An Empirical Exploration of Publicly Traded Exchangeable Securities," coauthored with David M. Schizer in the National Tax Journal, and "Dividend Taxes and Share Prices: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts," coauthored with Deen Kemsley and Christopher J. Mayer in the Journal of Finance.
Kevin A. Hassett is director of economic policy studies and a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, he was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2000 primaries. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the former Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation's Dynamic Scoring Advisory Panel. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of six books on economics and economic policy. He has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. His popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. His economic commentaries are regularly aired on radio and television, including recent appearances on the Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
William Randolph is an economist in the U.S. Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis, where he is director of international taxation. Since starting at the Treasury in 1988, he has worked on a broad array of domestic and international tax issues, focusing at various times on taxation of capital income, retirement income and pensions, charitable giving, financial instruments, financial markets, transfer pricing, and international corporate finance. He has published numerous research articles on tax policy issues and econometrics. Mr. Randolph began his professional life in 1983 as a labor econometrician for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He served for two years in the mid-1990s as an economist for the Congressional Budget Office.
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