Murphy-Economics Seminar: David Agrawal
Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine
The Murphy Institute Seminar Series in Economics
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Each semester The Murphy Institute sponsors a series of seminars organized by the Tulane Department of Economics that provides an opportunity for faculty, researchers, and practitioners to present their latest research and pressing issues related to topics in political economy. Research presented covers all aspects of contemporary economics, including the economics of education, health economics, and public economics, as well as in economic history, international economics, and core areas in political economy.
David R. Agrawal is Professor of Economics and Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Fellow in the CESifo Network and a Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance. Previously, he worked at the University of Kentucky and the University of Georgia. David's primary fields of research are public economics and urban economics - with an emphasis on tax policy and local policy. David's research uses both theoretical and empirical models to answer complex policy-relevant questions.
His work has appeared in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Annual Review of Economics, The Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Theoretical Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. David received The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize in 2011 and The Young Economists Award in 2012.
