President's Council of Economic Advisers Names Holtz-Eakin Chief Economist

The President's Council of Economic Advisers has a new chief economist. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, is heading to Washington to work with the three-member Council, which analyzes and interprets economic developments, appraises the programs and activities of the government, and advises the President on national economic policy. Professor Holtz-Eakin was a Senior Staff Economist with the CEA in 1989-1990 before joining the Maxwell School. 

Professor Holtz-Eakin is editor of the National Tax Journal and executive director of the New York State Assembly's Tax Study Commission and a member of the Board of Economic Advisors for the Assembly's Ways and Means Committee. He has studied the role of federal taxes in home ownership, the contribution of inventories to the business cycle, and a range of state and local government finance issues. His recent research centers on the economics of fundamental tax reform; productivity effects of public infrastructure; income mobility in the U.S.; and the role of families, capital markets, health insurance, and tax policy in the start-up and survival of entrepreneurial ventures. 

Professor Holtz-Eakin has been a consultant to the New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission, Arizona's Joint Select Committee on State Revenues and Expenditures, and the New York State Office for the Aging. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1985.

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