David Bradford (economist)

David Frantz Bradford ( born January 8, 1939 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † 22 February 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American economist and university professor, in particular dealt with the tax policy of the United States and among other things, between 1991 and 1993 Member the Council of Economic Advisers was.

Life

After schooling Bradford studied at Amherst College, he earned there in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). During this time he became in 1960 a member of the academic society Phi Beta Kappa. After a subsequent study at Stanford University, he completed a postgraduate degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1962 with a Master of Arts (MA Applied Mathematics ). Meantime he worked in 1961 as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and in 1962, economic researchers surgery evaluation group at the Center for Naval Analyses ( Center for Naval Analyses ).

After he had continued his studies at the University of Cambridge, he received 1963-1964 a grant from the Ford Foundation and finally acquired in 1966 a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) in Economics at Stanford University. He then accepted a professorship of Public Finance at Princeton University.

Bradford, who was in the following years one of the leading experts of the U.S. tax policy was, from 1975 to 1976 and Deputy Vice Minister for Tax Policy ( Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy), U.S. Department of the Treasury during the administration of U.S. President Gerald Ford.

After a scholarship from the Fulbright program, he worked as a guest researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1977, he served since 1977 as a research scientist at the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ). In addition, he was between 1978 and 1980 Member of the Advisory Panel on Energy Research of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Bradford, who is also on the American Economic Association (AEA), the American Law and Economics Association ( ALEA ) and the National Tax Association (NTA), was 1990-1991 Member of the Advisory Board of the American Tax Policy Institute and had the following 1991 held professorship at Harvard University.

After that he was during the tenure of U.S. President George HW Bush from 1991 to 1993 a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, the advisory body of the President on economic policy issues. After his departure from this body he was since 1993 a professor at the Law School of New York University (NYU ), and at the same time Councillor scholar ( Adjunct Scholar ) at the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI). In addition, Bradford, who died in a fire killed was, between 1996 and 1998 a member of the advisory body of the economics study program at the Brookings Institution.

His work on the taxation of consumption have taken lasting impact on the tax policy debate. Other focal points of his scientific work was the pricing of public goods, the cost -benefit analysis, urban and regional planning and environmental policy. David Bradford was one of the proponents of the Kyoto Protocol.

To commemorate its commitment to the main building of the Ifo Institute in Munich David Bradford House was renamed on 15 July 2005.

Publications

Since the 1990s Bradford also published numerous economics reference books at the Center for Economic Studies ( CES) at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. His major publications include:

  • Arm 's length pricing: some economic perspectives, co-authors Charles H. Berry and James R. Hines, CES, Munich 1991
  • Fixing capital gains: symmetry, consistency and correctness in the taxation of financial instruments, CES, Munich 1996
  • On the uses of benefit -cost reasoning in choosing policy toward global climate change, CES, Munich 1997
  • The influence of income tax rules on insurance reserves, co-author Kyle D. Logue, CES, Munich 1997
  • Transition to and tax rate flexibility in a cash flow type tax, CES, Munich 1997
  • The environmental Kuznets curve: exploring a fresh specification, co-authors Rebecca Schlieckert and Stephen H. Shore, CES, Munich 2000
  • Reforming budgetary language, CES, Munich 2001
  • Generalized cash flow taxation, co-author Alan J. Auerbach, CES, Munich 2001
  • Addressing the transfer pricing problem- in to origin basis X tax, CES, Munich 2003
  • The X tax in the world economy, CES, Munich 2004
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