Tax Policy Advisers, LLC, has created the copyrighted Tax Policy Advisers Model, a large-scale overlapping generations dynamic computable general equilibrium model that can be used to analyze the short and long run economic and distributional effects of tax reform in the United States, including the transitional effects of reform on asset prices and housing values and the associated intergenerational redistributive effects. The TPA model was developed by the principals of the company, Dr. John W. Diamond, Chief Executive Officer, and Dr. George R. Zodrow, President. For a recent application of the model, see Economic Effects of a Personal Capital Income Tax Add-On to a Consumption Tax.
Contact Information
Dr. John W. Diamond, CEO: diamond@taxpolicyadvisers.com 713-348-2199
Dr. George R. Zodrow, President: zodrow@taxpolicyadvisers.com 713-348-4891
Biography of Dr. George R. Zodrow, President, Tax Policy Advisers, LLC
Dr. George R. Zodrow is President of Tax Policy Advisers, LLC, and Professor of Economics and Rice Scholar, Tax and Expenditure Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University. He also holds an appointment as International Research Fellow at the Centre on Business Taxation at Oxford University. Zodrow received his Ph. D. from Princeton University in 1980. His research interests are tax reform in the U.S. and in developing countries, and state and local public finance. His articles on taxation have appeared in numerous scholarly publications, including the Journal of Public Economics, the National Tax Journal, International Tax and Public Finance, Tax Law Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Economic Literature and various Tax Notes publications. Zodrow is currently editor of the National Tax Journal and served previously as an editor of the "Policy Watch" section of International Tax and Public Finance and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Tax Journal. He has contributed to numerous books on taxation, and is the co-editor of United States Tax Reform in the 21st Century, co-editor of the forthcoming Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications (MIT Press), author of State Sales and Income Taxes: An Economic Analysis, and co-author of a book that examined the feasibility of implementing a consumption-based direct tax in Colombia. Zodrow served at the U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Analysis in 1984-85 and participated in the preparation of "Treasury I," the study that was the precursor to the Tax Reform Act of 1986. He has also served as a consultant on tax reform issues to the World Bank and the Agency for International Development, and has been involved in tax reform projects in numerous countries, including Aruba, Brazil, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Colombia, Egypt, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Venezuela and Zambia. Zodrow was the Economics Department Chair from 1995-2000, and has served on Rice's Faculty Council, University Council, and Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Biography of Dr. John W. Diamond, CEO, Tax Policy Advisers, LLC
Dr. John W. Diamond is Chief Executive Officer of Tax Policy Advisers, LLC, and Kelly Fellow in Tax Policy, Tax and Expenditure Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University. He also holds a position as an adjunct assistant professor in the Rice Economics Department. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 2000. Diamond's research interests are federal tax and expenditure policy, including tax reform, state and local public finance, and computable general equilibrium models. His research has appeared in the National Tax Journal, International Tax and Public Finance, and The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy, and he is the co-editor of Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications, forthcoming from MIT Press. He is currently serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Tax Journal. Diamond served at the Joint Committee on Taxation, United States Congress, in 2000-2004 and played an integral role in developing and implementing the framework used in the first official "dynamic scoring" estimates of the macroeconomic effects of changes in U.S. tax policy by the Joint Committee on Taxation. In addition, he was a contributing author to numerous publications, including congressional testimony, prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation. Diamond has also served as a consultant on the efficacy of structural adjustment programs to the World Bank.
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. George R. Zodrow, President, Tax Policy Advisers, LLC
Dr. John W. Diamond, CEO, Tax Policy Advisers, LLC
