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PERSONAL DATA 

Born:

September 4, 1958, in Orlando, Florida.

Marital Status:

Married to Constance Pond Hubbard.
Two children, Robert Andrew Pond Hubbard
and William Charles Pond Hubbard.

 

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

 

Public Economics, Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Natural Resource Economics, Public Policy.

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, May 1983.
Dissertation: Three Essays on Government Debt and Asset Markets, supervised by Benjamin M. Friedman, Jerry A. Hausman, and Martin S. Feldstein.

 

A.M., Economics, Harvard University, May 1981.

 

B.A., B.S., Economics, University of Central Florida, June 1979, summa cum laude.

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists, 2005.

 

William F. Butler Memorial Award, New York Association of Business Economists Award, 2005.

 

Exceptional Service Award, The White House, 2002.

 

Michelle Akers Award for Distinguished Service, University of Central Florida, 2001.

 

Alumni Hall of Fame, University of Central Florida, 2000.

 

Best Paper Award for Corporate Finance, Western Finance Association, 1998.

 

Exceptional Service Award, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1992.

 

Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Central Florida, 1991.

 

John M. Olin Fellowship, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1987-1988.

 

Teaching Commendations, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.

 

Northwestern University Associated Student Government Teaching Awards, announced in 1985, 1986, and 1987.

 

Graduate Distinctions: National Science Foundation Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

 

Undergraduate Distinctions: National Merit Scholarship, National Society of Professional Engineers Award, Florida Society of Professional Engineers Award, National Council of Teachers of English Award, Omicron Delta Kappa, Financial Management Association Honor Society.

 

POSITIONS HELD   

2004-present

Dean, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

1994-present

Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

1997-present

Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

2007-present

 

2003-present

1999-2004

Panel of Economic Advisors, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (also 1993-2001)

Visiting Scholar American Enterprise Institute (also 1995-2001)

Co-Director, Columbia Business School Entrepreneurship Program

2004-2005

Viewpoint Columnist, Business Week

2004-2006

 

2003-present

Member, Panel of Economic Advisors, Congressional Budget Office

Featured commentator, Nightly Business Report

2003-present

2001-2003

Featured commentator, Marketplace

Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers

2001-2003

Chairman, Economic Policy Committee, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

2001-2003

Member, White House National Economic Council and National Security Council

2001-2003

Member, President’s Council on Science and Technology

1997-1998

Visiting Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

1995-present

Visiting Scholar and Director of Tax Policy Program, American Enterprise Institute

1994-1997

Senior Vice Dean, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

1994

MCI Fellow, American Council for Capital Formation

1994

John M. Olin Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Economy and the State, University of Chicago

1991-1993

Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax Analysis), U.S. Department of the Treasury

1988-present

Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

1987-1988

John M. Olin Fellow in residence at the National Bureau of Economic Research

1983-1988

Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, with half-time research appointment in the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research

1985

Visiting Scholar, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

1981-1983

Teaching Fellow (Department of Economics) and Resident Tutor in Economics (Dunster House), Harvard University

 

DIRECTORSHIPS AND BUSINESS ADVISORY POSITIONS

2007-present

Met Life; Information Services Group

2006-present

Capmark Financial Corporation

2005-present

Arcapita (Senior Advisor); Chart Venture Partners (Advisor); Nomura Securities (Senior Advisor)

2004-present

ADP, Inc.; KKR Financial Corporation; BlackRock Closed-End Funds; Duke Realty Corporation

2003-present

Ripplewood Holdings; ITU Ventures

2004-2006

Dex Media/R.H. Donnelley

2000-2001

Angel Society, LLC; Information Technology University, LLC

 

POSTS IN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

2008-present

2006-present

2006-present

Chairman, Economic Club of New York

Co-Chair, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

Member, Board of Directors, Resources for the Future

2004-present

Trustee, Economic Club of New York

2004-present

Member, Advisory Board, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse

2003-present

Member, Manhattan District Council Board, Boy Scouts of America

2004-2007

Trustee, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1987-present

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (Monetary Economics, Corporate Finance, Public Economics, Economic Fluctuations, Industrial Organization)

2007-present

Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations

2006-present

Co-Chairman, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

2005-present

Chairman, Panel of Academic Advisors, Alliance for Competitive Taxation

2003-present

Chairman, Panel of Academic Advisors, International Tax Policy Forum

2003-present

Member, Panel of Academic Advisors, Tax Foundation

2003-present

Member, Panel of Academic Advisors, American Council for Capital Formation

2003-present

Member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation

2000

Panelist, Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee, National Science Foundation

1999-2001

Director, Project on Nonprofit Organizations, National Bureau of Economic Research

1997-2001

Member, COSSA-Liaison Committee, American Economic Association

1993-2001

Board of Advisors, Institutional Investor Project, School of Law, Columbia University

1995-1999

Member, Board of Academic Consultants, American Law Institute

1997

Member, Grants Panel for Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program, National Science Foundation

1994-1996

Member, Economics Grants Panel, National Science Foundation

1993-1996

Member, Federal Taxation and Finance Committee, National Tax Association

1990-1995

Co-organized research program on International Aspects of Taxation at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1995

Member, Program Committee, American Economic Association Meeting

1983-1987

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research

1983-1986

Adjunct Faculty Research Fellow, Energy and Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1986, 1988, 1994

Member of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity

1985, 1987

Special guest of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity

1990-1991

Organized research program on Environmental Economics and Public Policy at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1988-1990

Co-organized research program on Dynamic Models of Firms and Industries at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1985-1989

Organized research program and workshops on contracting in financial markets at the Summer Institute, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1988

Organized Economic Fluctuations program on Industrial Economics and Macroeconomics, National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford, California

1986-1988

Organized research program and workshop on links between macroeconomics and industrial organization at the Summer Institute, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1991

Member, Program Committee, Econometric Society Winter Meetings

1982-1983

Member, Energy Modeling Forum VII Study Group, Stanford University, Stanford, California

1981-present

Consultant on research projects with private corporations and government and international agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Treasury, and U.S. International Trade Commission; National Science Foundation; The World Bank; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Congressional Budget Office

Member:

American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Association for Public Policy and Management, Econometric Society, International Association of Energy Economists, National Tax Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the Institute for Management Science

Referee:

American Economic Review; Canadian Journal of Economics; Columbia Journal of World Business; Econometrica; Economic Journal; Energy Economics; Energy Journal; International Finance; International Tax and Public Finance; Journal of Business; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Journal of Economic History; Journal of Economic Literature; Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Financial Intermediation; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Services Research; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of International Money and Finance; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Regulatory Economics; Journal of Small Business Finance; Management Science; National Tax Journal; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance; RAND Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Dynamics; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Financial Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Southern Economic Journal; National Science Foundation; C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics (New York University); Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; Ballinger Press; Cambridge University Press; Harvard Business School Press; MIT Press; W.W. Norton; Oxford University Press

Former Associate Editor:

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review; International Finance; International Tax and Public Finance; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of Small Business Finance; National Tax Journal

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Edited Volumes

 

Transition Costs of Fundamental Tax Reform (with K.A. Hassett), Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2001.

Inequality and Tax Policy (with K.A. Hassett), Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2001.

Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations (with M. Feldstein and J.R. Hines), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Taxing Multinational Corporations (with M. Feldstein and J. R. Hines), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Studies in International Taxation (with A. Giovannini and J. B. Slemrod), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Financial Markets and Financial Crises, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance, and Investment, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

 

 

Books

 

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise (with J.F. Cogan and D.P. Kessler), Washington: AEI Press, 2005.

 

Textbooks

 

Principles of Economics (with A.P. O'Brien), Prentice-Hall, forthcoming, 2006.

Money, the Financial System, and the Economy, Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1st ed., 1994; 2nd ed., 1997; 3rd ed., 2000; 4th ed., 2002; 5th ed., 2004.

 

 

Publications
Articles

 

“Completion and Shareholder Fees in the Mutual Fund Industry: Evidence and Implications for Policy” (with J. Coates), Journal of Corporation Law, forthcoming.

“Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues” (with J.F. Cogan and D.P. Kessler), in J.M. Poterba, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy, volume 21, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

 To Bundle or Not to Bundle: Firms’ Choices Under Pure Building” (with A. Saha and J. Lee), International Journal of the Economics of Business, forthcoming.

“Precautionary Savings and the Governance of Nonprofit Organizations” (R. Fisman), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

“Business, Knowledge, and Global Growth”, Capitalism and Society, 1 (2006).

“Government Debt and Interest Rates” (with E. Engen), in M. Gertler and K. Rogoff, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2004, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

“The Effects of Progressive Income Taxation on Job Turnover” (with W.M. Gentry), Journal of Public Economics 88 (2004): 2301-2322.

“Taxing Multinationals” (with M. Devereux), International Taxation and Public Finance, forthcoming.

“Entrepreneurship and Household Saving” (with W.M. Gentry), Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 4 (2004).

“The Effect of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the Location of Assets in Financial Services Firms” (with R. Altshuler), Journal of Public Economics, 87 (January 2003):109-127.

“The Role of Nonprofit Endowments” (with R. Fisman), in E. Glaeser, ed., The Governance of Not-For-Profit Organizations, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

“Are There Bank Effects in Borrowers’ Costs of Funds?: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Borrowers and Banks” (with K.N. Kuttner and D.N. Palia), Journal of Business, 75 (October 2002): 559-581.

“The Share Price Effects of Dividend Taxes and Tax Imputation Credits” (with T.S. Harris and D. Kemsley), Journal of Public Economics 79 (March 2001): 569-596.

“Tax Policy and Entrepreneurial Entry” (with W.M. Gentry), American Economic Review 90 (May 2000): 283-287.

“Understanding the Determinants of Managerial Ownership and the Link Between Ownership and Performance” (with C.P. Himmelberg and D. Palia), Journal of Financial Economics 53 (1999): 353-384.

“A Reexamination of the Conglomerate Merger Wave in the 1960s” (with D. Palia), Journal of Finance 54 (June 1999): 1131-1152.

“Inflation and the User Cost of Capital: Does Inflation Still Matter?” (with D. Cohen and K.A. Hassett), in M. Feldstein, ed., The Costs and Benefits of Achieving Price Stability, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

“Are Investment Incentives Blunted by Changes in Prices of Capital Goods?: International Evidence” (with K.A. Hassett), International Finance 1 (October 1998): 103-125.

“Capital-Market Imperfections and Investment,” Journal of Economic Literature 36 (March 1998): 193-225.

“Fundamental Tax Reform and Corporate Financial Policy” (with W.M. Gentry), in J.M. Poterba, ed., TaxPolicy and the Economy, volume 12, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

“Distributional Implications of Introducing a Broad-Based Consumption Tax” (with W.M. Gentry), in J.M. Poterba, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy, volume 11, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

“How Different Are Income and Consumption Taxes?,” American Economic Review 87 (May 1997): 138-142.

“Tax Policy and Investment,” (with K.A. Hassett), in A.J. Auerbach, ed., Fiscal Policy: Lessons from Economic Research, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

“Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives” (with J. Skinner), Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (Fall 1996): 73-90.

“The Political Economy of Branching Restrictions and Deposit Insurance: A Model of Monopolistic Competition Among Small and Large Banks" (with N. Economides and D. Palia), Journal of Law and Economics 39 (October 1996): 667-704.

“Tax Reforms and Investment: A Cross-Country Comparison” (with J.G. Cummins and K.A. Hassett), Journal of Public Economics 62 (1996): 237-273.

“Benefits of Control, Managerial Ownership, and the Stock Returns of Acquiring Firms” (with D. Palia), RAND Journal of Economics 26 (Winter 1995): 782-792.

“Executive Pay and Performance: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry” (with D. Palia), Journal of Financial Economics 39 (1995): 105-130.

"Tax Policy, Internal Finance, and Investment: Evidence from the Undistributed Profits Tax of 1936-1937" (with C. Calomiris), Journal of Business 68 (October 1995): 443-482.

"A Reconsideration of Investment Behavior Using Tax Reforms as Natural Experiments" (with J.G. Cummins and K.A. Hassett), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1994:2): 1-59.

"Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance" (with J. Skinner and S. Zeldes), Journal of Political Economy 105 (April 1995): 360-399.

"Expanding the Life-Cycle Model: Precautionary Saving and Public Policy" (with J. Skinner and S. Zeldes), American Economic Review 84 (May 1994): 174-179.

"The Tax Sensitivity of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data" (with J. Cummins), in M. Feldstein, J.R. Hines, and R.G. Hubbard, eds., Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

"International Adjustment Under the Classical Gold Standard: Evidence for the U.S. and Britain, 1879- 1914" (with C. Calomiris), in T. Bauoumi, B. Eichengreen, and M. Taylor, eds., Modern Perspectives on the Gold Standard, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

"Internal Finance and Firm-Level Investment" (with A. Kashyap and T. Whited), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 27 (August 1995): 683-701.

"Do Tax Reforms Affect Investment?" (with J.G. Cummins and K.A. Hassett), in J.M. Poterba, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy, vol. 9, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

"The Importance of Precautionary Motives for Explaining Individual and Aggregate Saving" (with J. Skinner and S. Zeldes), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 40 (June 1994): 59-126.

"Corporate Financial Policy, Taxation, and Macroeconomic Risk" (with M. Gertler), RAND Journal of Economics 24 (Summer 1993): 286-303.

"Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process: An Application to U.S. Agriculture" (with A. Kashyap), Journal of Political Economy 100 (June 1992): 506-534.

"Long-Term Contracting and Multiple-Price Systems" (with R. Weiner), Journal of Business 65 (April 1992): 177-198.

"Efficient Contracting and Market Power: Evidence from the U.S. Natural Gas Industry" (with R. Weiner), Journal of Law and Economics 34 (April 1991): 25-67.

"Interest Rate Differentials, Credit Constraints, and Investment Fluctuations" (with M. Gertler and A. Kashyap), in R.G. Hubbard, ed., Financial Markets and Financial Crises, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

"Taxation, Corporate Capital Structure, and Financial Distress" (with M. Gertler), in L.H. Summers, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy, volume 4, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

"Firm Heterogeneity, Internal Finance, and Credit Rationing" (with C. Calomiris), Economic Journal 100 (March 1990): 90-104.

"Coming Home to America: Dividend Repatriations in U.S. Multinationals" (with J. Hines), in A. Razin and J.B. Slemrod, eds., Taxation in the Global Economy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

"Price Flexibility, Credit Availability, and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence from the U.S., 1894-1909" (with C. Calomiris), Quarterly Journal of Economics 104 (August 1989): 429-452.

"Financial Factors in Business Fluctuations" (with M. Gertler), in Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Financial Market Volatility--Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses, 1989.

"Contracting and Price Adjustment in Commodity Markets: Evidence from Copper and Oil" (with R. Weiner), Review of Economics and Statistics 71 (February 1989): 80-89.

"Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment" (with S. Fazzari and B.C. Petersen), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1988:1: 141-195; Reprinted in Z.J. Acs, ed., Small Firms and Economic Growth, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995.

"Investment, Financing Decisions, and Tax Policy" (with S. Fazzari and B.C. Petersen), American Economic Review 78 (May 1988): 200-205.

"Market Structure and Cyclical Fluctuations in U.S. Manufacturing" (with I. Domowitz and B.C. Petersen), Review of Economics and Statistics 70 (February 1988): 55-66.

"Capital Market Imperfections and Tax Policy Analysis in the Life-Cycle Model" (with K. Judd), Annales d' Economie et de Statistique 9 (January-March 1988): 111-139.

"Social Security and Individual Welfare: Precautionary Saving, Borrowing Constraints, and the Payroll Tax" (with K. Judd), American Economic Review 77 (September 1987): 630-646.

"Oligopoly Supergames: Some Empirical Evidence on Prices and Margins" (with I. Domowitz and B.C. Petersen), Journal of Industrial Economics 36 (June 1987): 379-398.

"Uncertain Lifetimes, Pensions, and Individual Saving," in Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven, and David A. Wise (eds.), Issues in Pension Economics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 175-205.

"The Farm Debt Crisis and Public Policy" (with C. Calomiris and J. Stock), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1986:2: 441-479.

"Liquidity Constraints, Fiscal Policy, and Consumption" (with K. Judd), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1986:1: 1-50.

"The Intertemporal Stability of the Concentration-Margins Relationship" (with I. Domowitz and B.C. Petersen), Journal of Industrial Economics 35 (September 1986): 13-34.

"Pension Wealth and Individual Saving: Some New Evidence," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 18 (May 1986): 167-178.

"Supply Shocks and Price Adjustment in the World Oil Market," Quarterly Journal of Economics 101 (February 1986): 85-102.

"Regulation and Long-Term Contracts in U.S. Natural Gas Markets" (with R. Weiner), Journal of Industrial Economics 35 (September 1986): 51-71.

"Business Cycles and the Relationship Between Concentration and Price-Cost Margins" (with I. Domowitz and B.C. Petersen), RAND Journal of Economics 17 (Spring 1986): 1-17.

"Inventory Optimization in the U.S. Petroleum Industry: Empirical Analysis and Implications for Energy Emergency Policy" (with R. Weiner), Management Science 32 (July 1986): 773-790.

"Social Security, Liquidity Constraints, and Pre-Retirement Consumption," Southern Economic Journal 51 (October 1985): 471-484.

"Personal Taxation, Pension Wealth, and Portfolio Composition," Review of Economics and Statistics 67 (February 1985): 53-60.

"Industry Margins and the Business Cycle: Some New Microeconomic Evidence" (with I. Domowitz and B.C. Petersen), Economics Letters 19 (1985): 73-77.

"Oil Supply Shocks and International Policy Coordination" (with R. Weiner), European Economic Review 30 (February 1986): 91-106.

"Do IRAs and Keoghs Increase Saving?," National Tax Journal 37 (March 1984): 43-54.

The Financial Impacts of Social Security: A Study of Effects on Household Wealth Accumulation and Allocation, in Monograph Series in Finance and Economics, New York University, 1983.

 

 

Writings on Public Policy

 

“The Best Business Education Ever”, BizEd, Volume VI, Issue 5: 2007

“An Action Plan for US Capital Markets”, International Finance, 10:1 (2007): 91-99.

“Nondestructive Creation,” strategy+business 27 (Summer 2007): 30-35.

“The Productivity Riddle,” strategy+business 45 (Winter 2006): 28-33.

“Overview of the Japanese Deficit Question,” (with Takatoshi Ito), “Tackling Japan’s Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Ageing (International Monetary Fund Book)  Palgrave Macmillan (October 31, 2006).  

 “The U.S. Current Account Deficit and Public Policy,” Journal of Policy Modeling 28, (2006): 665-671.

“Making Markets Work,” (with J.F. Cogan and D.P. Kessler), Health Affairs 24 (November/December 2005): 1447-1457.

How Capital Markets Enhance Economic Performance and Facilitate Job Creation (with W.C. Dudley), New York: Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, 2004.

“Would a Consumption Tax Favor the Rich?”  In A.J. Auerbach and K.A. Hassett, eds., Toward Fundamental Tax Reform.  Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2005.

“The Economist as Public Intellectual,” Journal of Economic Education 35 (Fall 2004): 391-394.

“Success Taxes, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation,” (with W.M. Gentry), in Innovation and the Economy, volume 5, forthcoming.

“Tax Policy and International