Kevin A. Hassett is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was also a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during both the Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett’s work identifying the effects of government policies on business investment behavior strongly supports the view that the current structure of corporate taxation significantly reduces capital formation and economic growth. He has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Public Economics. He has also contributed to many popular publications, including the Investor’s Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard. He is coauthor, with James K. Glassman, of Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market (New York: Times Books, 1999).

Bradley J. Herring is a Ph.D. candidate in the Health Care Systems Department of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation research examines the extent to which access to free care for the uninsured makes purchasing private health insurance less likely. Expecting to complete his degree in the summer of 2000, he will begin a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy fellowship at Yale University. He is a coauthor with Mark Pauly of the book Pooling Health Insurance Risks, published by the AEI Press, and the forthcoming article "An Efficient Employer Strategy for Dealing with Adverse Selection in Multiple-Plan Offerings: An MSA Example" in the Journal of Health Economics. Before coming to Wharton, he received a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University in biomedical engineering.

R. Glenn Hubbard is the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance of the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Economics at Columbia University. He is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Hubbard was the deputy assistant secretary of tax analysis at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Bush administration. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard University and a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he continues to be a research associate in programs on public economics, monetary economics, corporate finance, economic fluctuations, and industrial organization. He has been a research consultant for the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the World Bank. Mr. Hubbard has published numerous articles on public finance, financial economics, macroeconomics, industrial organization, energy economics, and public policy.

Mark V. Pauly is professor of health care systems, public policy and management, insurance and risk management, and economics at the Wharton School of Business; professor of economics at the School of Arts and Sciences; vice dean of the Wharton Doctoral Programs; and Bendheim Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Until June 30 he is the Kaiser Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. He is also an active member of the Institute of Medicine, a commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and an adjunct scholar of AEI. Mr. Pauly was director of research and executive director at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Management, and professor of economics at Northwestern University. He is on the editorial boards of Public Finance Quarterly, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, International Journal of the Economics of Business, and the Journal of Health Economics and is the author of over a hundred journal articles. He is the author of Pooling Health Insurance Risks with Bradley Herring (AEI Press, 1999), Financing Long-Term Care: What Should Be the Government's Role? with Peter Zweifel (AEI Press, 1996), An Analysis of Medical Savings Accounts: Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? (AEI Press, 1994), and Responsible National Health Insurance with Patricia Danzon, Paul Feldstein, and John Hoff (AEI Press, 1992).

C. Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. He was the deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the Treasury Department. While at Treasury, Mr. Steuerle directed a study called "Financing Health and Long-Term Care: A Report to the President and Congress." He serves as chair of the Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions. Mr. Steuerle previously was a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, resident fellow at AEI, and president of the National Economists’ Club Education Foundation. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of several publications, including Retooling Social Security for the Twenty-First Century, written with Jon Bakija; The New World Fiscal Order, coedited with Masahiro Kawai; and Serving Children with Disabilities, written with Laudan Aron and Pamela Loprest. Mr. Steuerle is the author of the weekly "Economic Perspective" column for Tax Notes.