July 18, 2014 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of Adam Found as a Fellow-in-Residence.
“Adam is an emerging leader in the area of business taxation and public finance,” said Robson. “We look forward to working with him and bringing his insights to bear on federal, provincial and municipal tax policy in Canada.”
Adam received his Ph.D. in economics in June 2014 from the University of Toronto, where he specialized in public finance and industrial organization. During 2014, he has continued to work in both the academic and municipal sectors through teaching economics at Trent University in Peterborough and through his capacity as Manager of Corporate Assets with the City of Kawartha Lakes.
A major part of his doctorate thesis, entitled “Essays in Municipal Finance,” focuses on the impact of business property taxes on investment, for which he was awarded the prestigious C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for 2013-2014. His work has already yielded two C.D. Howe Institute publications (co-authored with Peter Tomlinson and Ben Dachis): “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Harmful Impact of Provincial Business Property Taxes on Investment” (2012) and “What Gets Measured Gets Managed: The Economic Burden of Business Property Taxes” (2013). Adam was also awarded the 2009-10 Alan Broadbent Graduate Fellowship by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance.
As a Fellow-In-Residence at the Institute, Adam’s first major project will be updating and extending the 2013 study on how business property taxes and land transfer taxes affect incentives to invest across Canada.
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