Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2009: Alan Auerbach
The first-ever winner, Professor Alan Auerbach, was announced by the IIPF President during the association's conference at Maastricht in August 2008 by the then IIPF President, Hans-Werner Sinn.
Alan Auerbach is the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law and Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Associate Editor of the American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics and seven other public finance journals.
On 25 May 2009, he gave the Richard Musgrave Lecture, on "Public Finance in Practice and Theory", at the University of Munich's Freskensaal (Frescoes Room). The paper was subsequently published in CESifo Economic Studies. Mr Auerbach also gave three graduate lectures dealing with topics in dynamic taxation policy.