Seth H. Giertz. FIELDS Public Finance, Urban & Regional Economics, Labor Economics

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1 Associate Professor of Economics 1209 Lake Pointe Way School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences Richardson, TX University of Texas at Dallas (402) N Floyd Rd, M/S GR31 Richardson, TX seth.giertz@utdallas.edu (972) EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, M.A., Economics, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, B.A., Economics (with Distinction), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, FIELDS Public Finance, Urban & Regional Economics, Labor Economics EMPLOYMENT 2008 present: University of Texas at Dallas, Economics Associate Professor : University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Economics Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, : Congressional Budget Office, Tax Analysis Division Principal Analyst, Associate Analyst, : Economist, President s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Visiting Researcher, Institut d'economia de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, 2014 Best Paper Award, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, 2013 Distinguished Research Award, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, 2012 National Tax Journal, Referee-of-the-Year Award, 2009 Ethics curriculum award, Program in Business Ethics (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), , College of Business Administration (Nebraska), Summer Research Award, 2011, 2013, 2014 Economics Department (Nebraska), Summer Research Award, 2012 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, research grants, (joint with James R. Follain), , , Fellow, Research Development Fellows Program (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Fellow, Peer Review of Teaching Project (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Future Professoriate Program, Certificate in University Teaching, 2001 Center for Retirement Research (Boston College) Dissertation Fellowship, RAND Summer Institute and Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists, full scholarship, 2000 Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, stipend plus tuition scholarship, ARTICLES US House Price Bubbles and Busts: Implications for Property Taxation, Public Finance Review, (2016) 44(1): (with James R. Follain) Earlier version: US House Price Bubbles from and the Role of Local Market Conditions, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, (July 2011) working paper WP11JF1. Economists Role in Tax Policy and Enforcement, (2014), ed. Steven Payson, Public Economics in the United

2 States: How the Federal Government Analyzes and Influences the Economy, v2 Chapter 29: , Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA. (with Patrick Driessen) Recent Trends for Top Executives: Evidence from Tax Return Data, National Tax Journal, (2013) 66(4): (with Jacob Mortenson) Preventing House Price Bubbles: Lessons from the Bust, Policy Focus Report, (2013), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Cambridge, MA. (with James R. Follain) The Costs of Tax Policy Uncertainty and the Need for Tax Reform, Special Report, Tax Notes, (February 25, 2013) 138(8): (with Jacob Feldman) Expanded Version: The Economic Costs of Tax Policy Uncertainty: Implications for Fundamental Tax Reform, Mercatus Research, (November 2012):1-31. (with Jacob Feldman) The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review, Journal of Economic Literature, (2012) 50(1):3-50. (earlier version NBER Working Paper No , May 2009) (with Emmanuel Saez and Joel Slemrod) Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income, National Tax Journal, (2012) 65(4): (with Mehmet S. Tosun) Using Monte Carlo Simulations to Establish a New House Price Stress Test, Journal of Housing Economics, (2011) 20(2): (with James R. Follain) The Disability Screening Process and the Labor Market Behavior of Accepted and Rejected Applicants: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study, Journal of Labor Research, (2011) 32(3): (with Jeffrey D. Kubik) Options for Changing the Tax Treatment of Charitable Giving, CBO Report, (May 2011) Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C. (with Athiphat Muthitacharoen) The Elasticity of Taxable Income during the 1990s: New Estimates and Sensitivity Analyses, Southern Economic Journal, (October 2010) 77(2): Earlier version: The Elasticity of Taxable Income During the 1990s: A Sensitivity Analysis, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., Working Paper , (February 2006). Comment on Richardson: Progressive Federal Taxation Drives Redistribution from Blue to Red States, Economists' Voice, (October 2010) 7( 4): Article 5. The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Influences on Economic Efficiency and Tax Revenues, and Implications for Tax Policy, ed. Alan Viard, in Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s, AEI Press, Washington, D.C., (2009). Panel Data Techniques and the Elasticity of Taxable Income, National Tax Association s 102 nd Annual Conference Papers and Proceedings, (2010). Other version: Panel Data Techniques and the Elasticity of Taxable Income, Working Paper , Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (October 2008). The Elasticity of Taxable Income over the 1980s and 1990s, National Tax Journal, (December 2007) 60(4): Other versions: A Sensitivity Analysis of the Elasticity of Taxable Income, Working Paper , Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C. (January 2008). The Elasticity of Taxable Income over the 1980s and 1990s, National Tax Association s 97 th Annual Conference Papers and Proceedings, (2005). Tax Reform and Charitable Giving, National Tax Association s 100 th Annual Conference Papers and Proceedings, (2008). Expenditure Tax, The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy 2 nd edition, (edited by Joseph J. Cordes, Robert D. Ebel, and Jane G. Gravelle), The Urban Institute Press, (October 2005). (with J Fred Giertz) The 2002 Downturn in State Revenues: A Comparative Review and Analysis, National Tax Journal, 57(1), (March 2004). (with J Fred Giertz) -2-

3 Private and Public Contributions to Financing College Education, CBO Paper, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (January 2004). (with Nabeel Alsalam and Dennis Zimmerman) Earlier version: Federal Policy and the Financing Costs of Higher Education: An Equity Analysis within the Becker Framework, National Tax Association s 95 th Annual Conference Proceedings, (2003) (with Nabeel Alsalam and Dennis Zimmerman) Recent Literature on Taxable-Income Elasticities, Technical Paper , (December 2004) Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C.. Accelerated Depreciation and State Revenues, Institute of Government and Public Affairs Special Publication, (September 2002). WORKING PAPERS NOT OTHERWISE PUBLISHED Policy Uncertainty and Rent Seeking by Firms and CEOs: Implications for Efficiency and Optimal Tax Rates, (with Jacob A. Mortenson) Predicting House Price Bubbles and Busts with Econometric Models What We Knew. What We Still Don t Know, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, (September 2012) working paper WP12JF1. (with James R. Follain) Cycles in Poor Relief: Learning and Forgetfulness, working paper. Trends in High-Income and Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Evidence from Executive Compensation and Statistics of Income Data, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., Working Paper , (December 2006). (with Nada O. Eissa) Taxable Income Responses to 1990s Tax Acts: Further Explorations, Working Paper , Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (September 2008). Spouse s Labor Supply Response to Her Husband s Disability: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Using Nonexperimental Techniques, 2001, revised dissertation chapter. A Time-Series Econometric Model of the Upstate New York Economy, Metropolitan Studies Program Series: Occasional Paper No. 195, (March 1999). (with Donald H. Dutkowsky and James R. Follain) OPINION PIECES Farm Follies: Taxpayers are shortchanged by a misguided way of assessing agricultural land value, US News & World Report, August 24, (with John Anderson) The Fiscal Cliff, Policy Uncertainty and Tax Reform, The Hill, (with Jacob Feldman) Comment on Richardson: Progressive Federal Taxation Drives Redistribution from Blue to Red States, The Economists' Voice, (October 2010) 7( 4): Article 5. Economic Analysis Shows Why Buffett Tax View Off-Base, Omaha World-Herald, August 21, New York is not Arkansas, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), (April 19, 2000) A-11. Op-ed piece dealing with the redistribution of federal tax dollars between states. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Staff Economist, President s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform,

4 Treasurer ( ) and Board Member (2008-present), Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions (AIRLEAP) Program Committee, National Tax Association s Annual Meetings (2005, 2009, 2013) Session Organizer, National Tax Association s session, AEA/ASSA meetings (2008, 2009, 2014) University of Nebraska Faculty Senate, Economics department representative (2010-present) University of Nebraska Water Center, Affiliated Faculty Member (2010-present) Planning Committee, National Tax Association s 40th Annual Wichita Program: Appraisal for ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and Transportation Properties (2010, 2011) Peer Review of Teaching Project ( ), < Session Organizer, Society of Government Economists session, AEA/ASSA meetings (2011) Session Organizer, AIRLEAP session on ethics in the economics profession, unofficial session at the AEA/ASSA meetings (2009) Chair, Nominating committee for board members, Society of Government Economists, 2009, 2010 ASSA session selection committee, Society of Government Economists, 2009 Program Committee, Society of Government Economists Biennial Conference (2006) Executive Secretary ( ) and Board Member ( ), Society of Government Economists Rapporteur, Society of Government Economists Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, State of Illinois Legislative Intern, REFEREE National Tax Journal ( Referee of the Year 2009), American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Letters, Public Finance Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Fiscal Studies: The Journal of Applied Public Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Public Budgeting and Finance, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Real Estate Economics, Urban Studies, SAGE Open, Southern Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, CBO Reports, Mercatus Center Reports, National Science Foundation (grant proposal reviewer), Swiss National Science Foundation (grant proposal reviewer) PRESENTATION OF TECHNICAL PAPERS (SINCE 2002) Redistributive State Taxes and Wage Capitalization, August 2015, International Institute of Public Finance, 71 st Congress (Dublin, Ireland) Optimal Taxation with Policy Uncertainty and Rent Seeking, November, 2015, National Tax Association Annual Meetings (Santa Fe, NM) October, 2014, Institut d'economia de Barcelona, University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) July, 2014, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (S. Lake Tahoe, NV) The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review with Extensions to Policy Uncertainty and Rent Seeking, February 4, 2014, George Mason University, School of Public Policy. Empirical Results on the Behavioral Impact of Personal Income Taxation: An Overview and Implications for Tax Policy, Austrian National Bank (OeNB) and the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), research workshop on The Optimal Structure of Taxation, October 11, 2013 (Vienna, Austria) US House Price Bubbles and Busts and their Implications for Property Taxation, November 2013, National Tax Association Annual Meetings (Tampa, FL) Taxes and the Size and Composition of Executive Compensation, May 2013, National Tax Association Spring Symposium (Washington, DC) US House Price Bubbles from : The Role of Local Market Conditions September 2012, Housing Issues in the 21 st Century, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY) Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income -4-

5 May 2012, National Tax Association Spring Symposium (Washington, DC) The Role of Tax Economists in the Federal Government January 2012, ASSA Meetings (Chicago) US House Price Bubbles from and the Role of Local Market Conditions January 2012, ASSA Meetings (Chicago) February 2012, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) August 2011, International Institute of Public Finance, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review February 2011, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Tax Law and Policy, Spring Workshop/Class, House Price Stress Tests for U.S. MSAs, Bubble Indicators and the Implications for Economic Capital January 2011, ASSA Meetings (Denver) Building a Stress Test for Local House Prices and the Implications for Economic Capital November 2011, progress report on grant project, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Cambridge, MA) Panel Data Techniques and the Elasticity of Taxable Income, Panel-Data-Sets/schedule.aspx, March 2009, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) November 2009, National Tax Association s 102 nd Annual Conference on Taxation (Denver, CO) Using Monte Carlo Simulations to Establish a New House Price Stress Test November 2010, National Tax Association s 103 rd Annual Conference on Taxation (Chicago, IL) November 2010, Society of Government Economists Annual Conference (Washington, DC) October 2009, 46th Annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Economics Association (Kansas City) November 2009, University of Nevada-Reno, economics department seminar May 2010, Housing and the Credit Crunch, symposium hosted by George Washington University (Washington, DC) October 2010, University of North Dakota, economics department seminar, (Grand Forks, ND) Trends in Executive Compensation, January 2009 ASSA Meetings (San Francisco) The Revenue and Efficiency Consequences of Allowing the Bush Tax Cuts to Expire, November 2008, National Tax Association s 101 th Annual Conference on Taxation (Philadelphia, PA) Examining the Sensitivity of Taxable Income to Marginal Tax Rates Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s, American Enterprise Conference, May 29-30, 2008, (Washington, DC) A Panel Study of House Prices, Employment, and the Interest Rates, January 2008 ASSA Meetings (New Orleans, LA) Tax Reform and Charitable Giving November 2007, National Tax Association s 100 th Annual Conference on Taxation (Columbus, OH) The Elasticity of Taxable-Income: How Do People Respond to Tax Changes and Why Should We Care? George Mason University, February 2007 Arizona State University, January 2007 The Elasticity of Taxable Income During the 1990s: A Sensitivity Analysis April 2006, National Bureau of Economic Research, Behavioral Responses to Taxation/Public Economics Program Meeting, (Cambridge, Massachusetts) High-Income Labor Supply and Earnings Responses to Taxation: Evidence from Executive Compensation and Statistics of Income Data November 2005, National Tax Association s 98 th Annual Conference on Taxation (Miami, FL) Recent Literature on Taxable-Income Elasticities April 2005, National Bureau of Economic Research, Responses to Taxation/Public Economics Program Meeting, (Cambridge, Massachusetts) The Elasticity of Taxable Income over the 1980s and 1990s April 2005, University of Illinois March 2005, East Carolina University November 2004, National Tax Association s 97 th Annual Conference on Taxation (Minneapolis, MN) July 2004, Western Economics Association International 79th Annual Conference (Vancouver, Canada) -5-

6 Private and Public Contributions to Financing College Education, March 2004, Congressional Budget Office seminar (with Dennis Zimmerman & Nabeel Alsalam) Fall 2003, Staff from the Senate Republican Budget Committee (with Dennis Zimmerman & Nabeel Alsalam) Government Funding of Higher Education: A Case Study of Director s Law March 2003, Annual meetings of the Public Choice Society (Nashville, TN) Federal Policy and the Financing Costs of Higher Education: An Equity Analysis within the Becker Framework November 2002, National Tax Association s 95th Annual Conference (Orlando, FL) Cycles in Poor Relief: Learning and Forgetfulness, March 2002, Public Choice Meetings (San Diego, CA) April 2002, Congressional Budget Office (Washington, D.C.) Housing Prices, the Term Structure and Employment Growth, January 2002 ASSA Meetings (Atlanta, GA) SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSANT Institute for Fiscal Studies, Incidence and Labour Market Effects of Social Security, workshop (London, UK), February 29-March 1, National Tax Association, Housing Markets During the Recent Boom/Bust Cycle; Elasticity of Taxable Income, annual meetings (Boston), November Allied Social Science Associations, Exploring the Potential for Improvements in Economics Education, annual meetings (Boston), National Tax Association, Shifts in Tax Structure, Business Activity and Implementing a Fiscal Union, annual meetings (Santa Fe), November National Tax Association, Efficiency, Distribution, and the Design of Fundamental Tax Reform, annual meetings (Tampa), November National Tax Association, Taxes and Migration, annual meetings (Providence), November Syracuse University, The Risks of Strategic Default, September 2012, Housing Issues in the 21 st Century, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY) National Tax Association, Taxes and Economic Efficiency, annual meetings (New Orleans), November Property Taxes and Housing, Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings (Denver), January National Tax Association, Tax Efficiency: Federal, State and Local Taxes, 101 st Annual Conference on Taxation (Philadelphia, Pa), November National Tax Association, Taxes and the Family: Children, Marriage and Saving, 101 st Annual Conference on Taxation (Philadelphia, Pa), November Allied Social Sciences Association, What Can Experimental Economics Teach Us About Public Finance?, session organizer and moderator, annual meetings (New Orleans, LA), January 2008 Timing Issues with the Federal Individual Income Tax, National Tax Association s 100 th Annual Conference on Taxation (Columbus, OH), November Society of Government Economists, International Tax Competition, Conference on Public Policy and U.S. Competitiveness, session organizer and moderator, (Washington, D.C.), October National Tax Association, State Earned Income Tax Credits, Moderator, 97th Annual Conference on Taxation (Minneapolis, MN), 2004 Western Economics Association International, Fertility, Childcare, and Financial Education, 79th Annual Conference (Vancouver, Canada), July 2004 National Tax Association, The Income Distribution and Taxation, 96th Annual Conference on Taxation, (Chicago, IL), 2003 Public Choice Society, Education and Property Values, Annual meetings of the Public Choice Society (Nashville, TN), March 2003 Legislative Budgets, annual meetings, 2002 National Tax Association, Fiscal Federalism, 93rd Annual Conference on Taxation (Santa Fe, NM), 2000 Regional Science Association International, Macroeconomic Models of Regions I: Space and Time; Urban Housing and Residential Land Use, annual Meetings (Montreal, Canada),

7 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Texas at Dallas Urban & Regional Economics, Economics of Taxation (PhD) University of Nebraska - Lincoln Public Finance, Urban & Regional Economics, Regional Development (master s), Statistics, Economics of Taxation (PhD) Syracuse University, Instructor (with full course responsibilities, ) Economics for Managers (1999, 2000), Intermediate Microeconomics (1999), Principles of Microeconomics (1998), The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in America (1997) AFFILIATIONS American Economics Association American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions (AIRLEAP) International Institute of Public Finance National Tax Association Society of Government Economists Western Economics Association International REFERENCES Provided upon request. -7-