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Fall 2014

Tax Law

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Prof. Hines Honored for Public Finance Work with Prestigious Professorship

By Lori Atherton

Professor James Hines Jr. has been named the recipient of the 2014 Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship, a prestigious award honoring scholars in public finance. Hines, the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and co-director of the Law and Economics Program, delivered the sixth Richard Musgrave Lecture—“International Taxation and National Interests”—in Munich in April.

The visiting professorship was established in 2008 by the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) and the CESifo Group (Center for Economic Studies, the Ifo Institute, and the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research) to honor the memory of Richard Musgrave, known for being one of the greatest scholars in the field of public finance. Award winners are chosen through a formal selection process by the president and vice president of IIPF and the president of the CESifo Group.

This is the second year in a row that a U-M professor has received the honor. The 2013 recipient was Joel Slemrod, the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and chair of the Department of Economics. Other past awardees include professors from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the International Monetary Fund, and the University of California, Berkeley.

“I’m really flattered to be in such good company,” Hines said. “I know the other recipients and think the world of them. They are all superb.”

Aside from his Law School appointments, Hines is the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in U-M’s Department of Economics and serves as the research director of the Office of Tax Policy Research in the Ross School of Business.

A researcher who focuses on various aspects of taxation, he joined the Michigan faculty in 1997 after teaching at Princeton and Harvard. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. He also is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, and a former co-editor of the American Economic Association’s Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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