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Kevin A. Hassett
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Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies
Resident Scholar Kevin A. Hassett
Kevin Hassett directs economic policy studies at AEI.  His research interests include tax policy, the U.S. economy, the stock market, and investments. He is also a weekly columnist for Bloomberg. Before joining AEI, Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was an economic adviser to the George W. Bush campaign in the 2004 presidential election and the chief economic adviser to Senator McCain during the 2000 presidential primaries.  He currently serves as a senior economic adviser to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign.  He has also served as a policy consultant to the Treasury Department during the former Bush and Clinton administrations.

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Professional Experience
-Senior economist, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1995-1997
-Economist, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1992-1995
-Associate professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1993-1994
-Assistant professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1989-1993


Education
Ph.D., economics, University of Pennsylvania
B.A., with honors, economics, Swarthmore College


Articles and Short Publications
Corporate Taxes Are Killing the U.S. Auto Industry
Drill, Don't Redistribute
Democrats Offer Lesson in Misleading on Taxes
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Books
Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
Bubbleology
Inequality and Tax Policy
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Events
Was Malthus Right? Was Today's Global Food Crisis Inevitable?
Does Mentoring Improve New Teachers?
Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s
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Speaking Engagements
Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Davis v. Kentucky Department of Revenue
The Stealth Tax That's No Longer a Wealth Tax
Blowing the Cover on Stealth Tax
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Research Areas
Investments
Stock market
Tax policy
U.S. economy
Downloads
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Contact Information
Kevin A. Hassett
American Enterprise Institute
 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20036
Phone: 202-862-7157
Assistant: 202-862-4873 or 202-862-5912
Fax: 202-862-7177
E-mail: khassett@aei.org
Latest Book
Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
This volume provides readers with concise but varying perspectives on the possibilities of tax reform and focuses attention on key questions in the scholarly debate. [Read More]