Research Program on Business Taxation

Welcome to the McGrattan-Bhandari homepage. We study different aspects of the firm in novel ways, reconsidering the impacts of business taxation on entrepreneurship, innovation, investment, and tax compliance. Meet team members involved over the years and review our research below.

Our Research

On the Nature of Entrepreneurship

On the Nature of Entrepreneurship

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Corporate Taxation

Corporate Taxation

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Businesses Intangibles

Businesses Intangibles

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Returns to Self-Employment

Returns to Self-Employment

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Industry Consolidation

Industry Consolidation

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Tax Compliance

Tax Compliance

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Team Members

Principal Investigators

Ellen McGrattan

Ellen McGrattan

Email: erm@umn.edu

Ellen McGrattan is a professor at the University of Minnesota, consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a research associate at the NBER, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. She earned her B.S. from Boston College and her Ph.D. from Stanford.

Anmol Bhandari

Anmol Bhandari

Email: bhandari@umn.edu

Anmol Bhandari is a professor at UMN, a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and a research associate at the NBER. He earned his M.A. from the Delhi School of Economics and his Ph.D. from NYU.

Graduate Students and Alumni

Tobey Kass

Tobey Kass

Email: tobey.kass@treasury.gov

Tobey Kass is a Financial Economist at the Office of Tax Analysis. She earned her A.B. from Mount Holyoke and her Ph.D. from UMN.

Thomas May

Thomas May

Email: tmay@fullerton.edu

Thomas is an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degress from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. at UMN.

Undergraduate Students and Alumni

Jackson Mejia

Jackson Mejia

Email: jpmejia@mit.edu

Jackson is a Ph.D. student at MIT. He earned his B.S. in economics from UMN.

Sam Jordan-Wood

Sam Jordan-Wood

Email: samjw25@gmail.com

Sam is a Ph.D. student at NYU. He earned his B.S. in economics from UMN.

Guangqi Li

Guangqi Li

Email: guangqi@wustl.edu

Guangqi is a Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his B.S. in economics from UMN.

Dingjun Bian

Dingjun Bian

Email: dbian@andrew.cmu.edu

Dingjun is a Ph.D. student in mathematics at Carnegie Mellon. He earned his B.S. in math and economics at UMN.

Stuart Fronk

Stuart Fronk

Email: stuart.fronk@crai.com

Stuart is a financial economics consultant at Charles River Associates. He earned his B.S. in economics at UMN.

Mick Dueholm

Mick Dueholm

Email: mickjdueholm@gmail.com

Mick is a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. He earned his B.S. in economics from UMN.

Ben Cartford

Ben Cartford

Email: cartfordben@gmail.com

Ben is an economist at the IRS. He earned his B.S. in economics from UMN.

Sara Schuster

Sara Schuster

Email: saraschuster@nera.com

Sara Schuster research associate at NERA Economic Consulting. She earned her B.S. in economics from UMN.

Margaret Xiao

Margaret Xiao

Email: xiao0328@umn.edu

Margaret is a student in economics and computer science at UMN.

Isaiah Dalzell

Isaiah Dalzell

Email: dalze018@umn.edu

Isaiah is a student in economics and computer science at UMN.