College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Don Fullerton

Gutgsell Professor of Finance and Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Biographical Sketch

Don Fullerton received a BA from Cornell in 1974 and a PhD in Economics from Berkeley in 1978. He taught at Princeton University (1978-84), the University of Virginia (1984-91) and Carnegie Mellon University (1991-94) before joining the University of Texas in 1994. From 1985 to 1987, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis. His early research in public economics focused on computable general equilibrium models of taxation, marginal effective tax rates, the marginal cost of public funds, and the distributional effects of taxes on a lifetime basis. Recent research includes the distributional effects of social security. In environmental economics, he works on household disposal of garbage and recycling, policies for green design, the effects of the Superfund clean-up program, vehicle emission control policies, and other second-best policies where direct environmental taxes are not feasible.