In the News

I gave the keynote lecture on “Flying Under the Radar: Ghosts and the Income Tax” at the CESifo Economic Studies Conference on New Perspectives on Tax Administration Research, Munich, Nov. 2-3, 2018:    
CESifo Conference Program

My research on “Who’s Minding the Nanny Tax” was recently published in Tax Notes and featured in the Wall Street Journal:
Tax Notes Special Report
Wall Street Journal Feature Article

I gave the keynote lecture on “Ghosts in the Tax Machinery” at the TARC Annual Meeting:                      

3 Apr 2018 Centre Director Professor Christos Kotsogiannis welcomes Keynote speaker Dr Brian Erard to the 6th Annual conference at

I am honored to have been inducted as an International Fellow with the Tax Administration Research Centre TARC fellow announcement

My research on the nonfiler tax gap and the drivers of filing compliance with colleagues Alan, Plumley, Pat Langetieg, Mark Payne, and John Guyton was featured in Tax Notes.

I gave the keynote lecture on “Bottom-Up Methods for Tax Gap Estimation” at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) Tax Studies and Research Units Meeting on “Estimating the Tax Gap in Latin America” in Lima, Peru.
CIAT meeting announcement

I delivered a course on “Quantitative Techniques in Public Economics” to an international audience of Ph.D. faculty at the fourth annual Summer School in Public Economics at the International Center for Public Policy of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University:
Tweet advertising the series of Masterclass lectures I delivered to scholars and tax administrators on “Measuring the Tax Gap” at the invitation of the Tax Administration Research Centre in Exeter, UK

My testimony at the Senate Finance Committee Hearing on “Best Practices in Tax Administration: A Look Across the Globe” on April 12, 2011:
Senate Finance Committee Testimony

New York Times article featuring my research on estate tax compliance:
New York Times Feature Article

Wall Street Journal article featuring my research on estate tax audits: 
Wall Street Journal Feature Article

Summary of my keynote lecture at the 2010 International Institute of Public Finance Annual Congress in Uppsala, Sweden:
Keynote Lecture at IIPF International Congress