Joel Slemrod

Joel Slemrod is an economist who studies taxation and an emeritus professor of economics and of business economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, where he held the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professorship and directed the Office of Tax Policy Research from 1987 to 2025. He was a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 1984-85 and edited the National Tax Journal from 1992 to 1998. In 2012 the National Tax Association awarded him its Daniel M. Holland Medal.