Aparna Mathur presents "Macroeconomic Approaches to Job Creation" at the 2011 GAO Conference.

Each of the GAO's 16 corrections indicates that the recorded evidence was presented in an inaccurate or incomplete fashion, in every case portraying for-profits in a negative light.

In today's global economy, countries constantly compete for corporations' research activities. U.S. tax policy lags behind many countries in attracting firms' R&D centers. With the increased mobility of research and intellectual property, this conference will focus on how countries should tax innovative, answering important questions for countries seeking to promote economic growth.

Measuring failure--or the failures of measuring.

Quick: How many kinds of gasoline do we use in America? Most people would say three or six: regular unleaded, mid-grade, and premium, along with the ethanol blends of the same that have become nearly universal. The actual number is somewhere above 45, though hard to pin down exactly, according...

An audit of the Federal Open Market Committee's deliberations is unnecessary and unproductive.

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Congress ordered all but five commercial airports to switch from privately employed passenger screeners to a federal workforce operating under the auspices of the newly created Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Four years after the...

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Congress ordered all but five commercial airports to switch from privately employed passenger screeners to a federal workforce operating under the auspices of the newly created Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Four years after the...