Hines Jr., James R.

L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law

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734.936.5669
E-mail jrhines@umich.edu

James R. Hines Jr. is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and codirector of the Law and Economics Program at Michigan Law. He is also 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 U-M's Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Professor Hines's research is focused on various aspects of taxation. He taught at Princeton and Harvard universities prior to joining the Michigan faculty in 1997, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University; the London School of Economics; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard Law School. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, former co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives, and once, long ago, served as an economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce. He holds a BA and MA from Yale University and a PhD from Harvard, all in economics.

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Value-Added Taxes and International Trade: The Evidence. M. A. Desai, co-author. Working Paper.
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Understanding Tax Evasion Dynamics. E. Engel, co-author. NBER Working paper, no. 6903. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper.
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The Transfer Pricing Problem: Where the Profits Are. NBER Working Paper, no. 3538. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper.
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Taxed Avoidance: American Participation in Unsanctioned International Boycotts. NBER Working Paper, no. 6116. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper.
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Tax Reform, Investment, and the Value of the Firm. A. J. Auerbach, co-author. NBER Working Paper, no. 1803. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper.
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Tax Credits and Charitable Contributions in Michigan. N. E. Feldman, co-author. Working Paper.
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Editor. Tax Competition. Edward Elgar Press, Work in Progress.

Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies. NBER Working Paper, no. 6615. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper.
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity. M. A. Desai and C. F. Foley, co-authors. NBER Working Paper, no. 11717. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper.
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Forbidden Payment: Foreign Bribery and American Business After 1977. NBER Working Paper, no. 5266. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper.
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Economic Foundations of International Tax Rules. M. A. Desai, co-author. Washington, D.C.: American Tax Policy Institute. Working Paper.
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Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens. M. A. Desai and C. F. Foley, co-authors. NBER Working Paper, no. 10806. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper.
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Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States. R. A. Felix, co-author. NBER Working Paper, no. 15263. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper.
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"Inter Vivos Transfers of Ownership in Family Firms." Niklas Potrafke, Marina Riem, and Christoph Schinke, co-authors. Int'l Tax & Pub. Fin. (Forthcoming).

"Perils of Tax Reform." Nat'l Tax J. 71, no. 2 (2018): 357-76.
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"Comment on 'Fundamental Tax Reform: A Comparison of Three Options'." In The Economics of Tax Policy, edited by A. J. Auerbach and K. Smetters, 369-74. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017.

"Business Tax Burdens and Tax Reform." Brookings Papers on Econ. Activity 48, no. 2 (2017): 449-71.
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"Trade Credit and Taxes." M. A. Desai and C. F. Foley, co-authors. Rev. Econ. & Stat. 98, no. 1 (2016): 132-39.

"Taxing Sales of Depreciable Assets." Mich. Bus. & Entrepreneurial L. Rev. 5, no. 2 (2016): 161-72.
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"Multinational Firms and Tax Havens." A. Gumpert and M. Schnitzer, co-authors. Rev. Econ. & Stat. 98, no. 4 (2016): 713-27.
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"Are PILOTs Property Taxes on Nonprofits?" F. Fei and J. R Horwitz, co-authors. J. of Urb. Econ. 94 (2016): 109-23.
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Gave the keynote address at the Second Annual Urban Economic Policy Conference: Topics in Urban Tax Policy sponsored by the Drexel School of Economics and Econsult Solutions Inc., April 2016.

Testified before the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on possible changes to the business tax code, April 2016.

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