With growing competition from abroad, the U.S. must reform its fiscal policy to reduce debt, maximize economic efficiency — including minimizing the distortions caused by the tax system — and maintain its areas of competitive advantage.
This policy brief is part of a series of recommendations from the Baker Institute for the incoming president’s administration.
Dec. 5, 2016, 3:26 p.m.
George R. Zodrow is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics at Rice University. He is also a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute and an international research fellow at the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University. Zodrow …
Joyce Beebe, Ph.D., is a fellow in public finance at the Baker Institute. Her research focuses on tax reforms in the U.S. and computable general equilibrium modeling of the effects of tax reforms. Her other research interests include wealth accumulation over …
