Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship

Nathaniel Hendren is a Professor of Economics at MIT. He is a Founder and Co-Director of Policy Impacts, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of government decision-making and evidence-based policy-making.

Dhammika Dharmapala joined Berkeley Law in 2023 from the University of Chicago Law School. He serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, and is an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, a fellow of the CESifo Research Network, and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is also Co-President of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and a member of the Advisory Board of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

Henrik Kleven is the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1977, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is appointed jointly by the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is currently studying how child penalties — i.e., the effects of parenthood on women relative to men — affect gender inequality in labor market outcomes. He is especially interested in understanding how general child penalties are, how they vary with political and cultural institutions, and how they evolve with economic development.

The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2023 was awarded to Rosanne Altshuler by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). Rosanne Altshuler is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. She was formerly Chair of the Economics Department and Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. Her research focuses on federal tax policy and has been published in numerous journals and books.

The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2022 was awarded to Professor Stefanie Stantcheva by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). Stefanie Stantcheva is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and founder of the Social Economics Lab.

The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2021 was awarded to Professor Mihir A. Desai by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). He is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University; his MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, and a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Brown University. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar to India.

The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2020 was awarded to Professor Claus Thustrup Kreiner by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). He is Professor of Economics at University of Copenhagen since 2005, and Founder and Director of the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) since 2017. Claus Thustrup Kreiner has been an active member of the CESifo Research Network since 2000 and is also the Area Director of the Public Economics Network Area.

The CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Guest Professorship 2019 was awarded to Professor Roger H. Gordon. Roger Gordon has been Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, since 2001 and has been a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (2015), University College London (2014), and Harvard University (2004). He has been an active member of the CESifo Research Network since 2006.

The 2018 Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship was awarded to Professor Michael P. Devereux. Michael Devereux is Director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. He has been an active member of the CESifo Research Network since 2006 and a member of the ifo Institute’s Scientific Advisory Council since 2016.

The 2017 Richard Musgrave Guest Professorship was awarded to Professor Rachel Griffith. Professor Griffith is Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, one of the world’s leading think tanks in the field of public economics.

The 2016 award winner of the Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship is Kai A. Konrad, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. Kai Konrad was a chaired Professor of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1994 to 2009 and concurrently a director at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) from 2001 to 2009 before he joined the Max Planck Society as a scientific member.

The 2015 award winner is Professor Raj Chetty, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He has been an active CESifo Research Network Member since Mai 2008, when he won that year’s Distinguished CESifo Affiliate award.The award winner is chosen through a formal selection process by the President and Vice Presidents of IIPF together with the President of the CESifo Group.

The 2014 award winner is Professor James R. Hines Jr., Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law in the Law School at the University of Michigan. He has been an active CESifo Research Network Member since August 1999.

The 2013 award winner is Professor Joel B. Slemrod, Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics. He also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research at the Ross School of Business. He has been an active CESifo Research Network Member since August 1999.

The 2012 award winner is Professor Eytan Sheshinski, Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor Emeritus of Public Finance and current member of the Academic Committee of Center for Rationality, both at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition he is a member of the Board of Directors and Investment Committee, Psagot Provident Fund, Ltd. He has been a CESifo Research Network Member since October 1999 and has published a number of CESifo Working Papers.

The 2011 award winner is Professor Timothy Besley, Director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) and Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

The 2010 award winner is Professor Michael Keen of the International Monetary Fund. As Assistant Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, he influences top-level discussions on tax policy at the IMF. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Courcil of the Max Plank Institute, Munich, was IIPF president from 2003 to 2006 and is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Public Economics and the German Economic Review.

The first-ever winner, Professor Alan Auerbach, was announced by the IIPF President during the association's conference at Maastricht in August 2008 by the then IIPF President, Hans-Werner Sinn.