David Bradford

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David Frantz Bradford (born January 8, 1939 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † February 22, 2005 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American economist and university professor who dealt in particular with US tax policy and was a member between 1991 and 1993 of the Council of Economic Advisers .

Life

After attending school, Bradford first studied at Amherst College , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1960 . During this time he became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic society in 1960 . After a subsequent study visit to Stanford University , he completed a postgraduate course in applied mathematics at Harvard University , which he completed in 1962 with a Master of Arts (MA Applied Mathematics). In the meantime, he worked in 1961 as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and was 1,962 economists surgery evaluation group in the Center for Marine analyzes ( Center for Naval Analyzes ).

After his studies at the University of Cambridge had continued, he received 1963 to 1964 a scholarship of the Ford Foundation and eventually acquired in 1966 a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in Economics at Stanford University . He then took up a professorship in public finance at Princeton University .

Bradford, who in the following years became a leading expert on US tax policy, was also Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the US Treasury Department from 1975 to 1976 during the tenure of US President Gerald Ford .

After working as a visiting researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven on a scholarship from the Fulbright Program in 1977, he had been a research scientist in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1977 . He was also a member of the US Department of Energy's Energy Research Advisory Board from 1978 to 1980 .

Bradford, who also works for the American Economic Association (AEA), the American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) and the National Tax Association (NTA), was a member of the advisory board of the American Tax Policy Institute between 1990 and 1991 and subsequently had one in 1991 Professor at Harvard University.

Afterwards, during the tenure of US President George HW Bush from 1991 to 1993, he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, the presidential advisory body on economic policy issues. After leaving this body, he was a professor at the Law School of New York University (NYU) since 1993 and at the same time an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Additionally, Bradford, who was killed in a fire, served on the Brookings Institution's Economics Study Program Advisory Board between 1996 and 1998 .

His work on consumption taxation has had a lasting influence on the tax policy debate. Other focal points of his scientific work were the setting of prices for public goods , cost-benefit analysis , urban and regional planning and environmental policy . David Bradford was a proponent of the Kyoto Protocol .

In memory of his commitment, the main building of the Ifo Institute in Munich was renamed David Bradford House on July 15, 2005 .

Publications

Since the 1990s, Bradford has also published numerous economics books at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His most significant publications include:

  • Arm's length pricing: some economic perspectives , co-authors Charles H. Berry and James R. Hines, CES, Munich 1991
  • Fixing capital gains: symmetry, consistency and correctness in the taxation of financial instruments , CES, Munich 1996
  • On the uses of benefit cost reasoning in choosing policy toward global climate change , CES, Munich 1997
  • The influence of income tax rules on insurance reserves , co-author Kyle D. Logue, CES, Munich 1997
  • Transition to and tax rate flexibility in a cash flow type tax , CES, Munich 1997
  • The environmental Kuznets curve: exploring a fresh specification , co-authors Rebecca Schlieckert and Stephen H. Shore, CES, Munich 2000
  • Reforming budgetary language , CES, Munich 2001
  • Generalized cash flow taxation , co-author Alan J. Auerbach, CES, Munich 2001
  • Addressing the transfer pricing problem in an origin basis X tax , CES, Munich 2003
  • The X tax in the world economy , CES, Munich 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Bradford, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradford, David Frantz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2005
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania