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Name: Gilbert Metcalf
Title: Professor of Economics
Departmental Affiliation: Economics Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard University; M.S. University of Massachusetts at Amherst; B.A. Amherst College
Expertise: Tax policy, energy and environmental issues, climate change
E-mail: gilbert.metcalf@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/faculty/metcalf.asp
Scholarship & Research: Gilbert E. Metcalf is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University. He recently served as the chair of the presidential Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience at Tufts as well as chair of the Department of Economics. Metcalf is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, has taught at Princeton University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and has served as a Visiting Scholar at MIT. He has served as a consultant to various organizations including the Chinese Ministry of Finance, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Argonne National Laboratory. Metcalf's primary research area is applied Public Finance with particular interests in taxation and investment, tax incidence, energy and environmental economics. He has published papers in numerous academic journals, has edited two books, and has contributed chapters to several books on tax policy. Metcalf received a B.A. in Mathematics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

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