PROF. ROBERT P. INMAN

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Robert P. Inman is the Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Professor of Economics and Law at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received is undergraduate and graduate training in economics at Harvard University. In addition to his appointment as a Professor at the Wharton School, he currently serves as a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.

He is an Associate Editor of two professional research journals, Public Finance Quarterly and Regional Science and Urban Economics. He is the editor of two books, The Economics of Public Services (Macmillan Publishing, co-edited with Martin S. Feldstein) and Managing the Service Economy (Cambridge University Press). His research has focuses on the design and impact of fiscal policies and has been published in the American Economic Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Public Policy and Management, National Tax Journal, Public Choice, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and The Texas Law Review.

He has served as a consultant and advisor on fiscal policy to the City of Philadelphia, the City of Bridgeport, CT., the states of California, New York, and Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Treasury, Citibank, Chemical Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Republic of South Africa, and the World Bank.

In addition to teaching at Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Inman has taught at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, the University of London, Stanford University, and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) as a Visiting Professor. He has won numerous teaching awards including the University of Pennsylvania's highest teaching award (the Lindback Prize, 2000), the Anvil Award as the outstanding teacher in the Wharton MBA program as elected by the students (1978, 2001), and the Irving Kravis Award as the outstanding teacher in the Economics Department (1995).

He was elected a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, CA; 1992-93) and received the Fulbright Chair in Economics (2000) at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.