About Edward Gramlich
Edward M. Gramlich served as Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs in 2005-2006. He retired from the active faculty in June 2006. Prior to returning to campus in 2005, Dr. Gramlich was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for eight years. Dr. Gramlich was Dean of the School of Public Policy from 1995-97 and has also served as Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (the forerunner to what is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). Dr. Gramlich’s expertise in macroeconomic policy has led him to serve in several capacities with the federal government including as both Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office. In addition, he chaired the Quadrennial Advisory Commission on Social Security from 1994-1996. Gramlich also served as staff director for the 1992 Economic Study Committee on Major League Baseball.
Dr. Gramlich’s work focuses on economic policy questions. At the Federal Reserve he chaired the board’s Committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. During his tenure the committee proposed and the board adopted important changes in the Home Owner Equity Protection Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. His published work includes books and papers on macroeconomics, budget policy, income redistribution, fiscal federalism, social security, and the economics of professional sports.
Dr. Gramlich is currently the Richard B. Fisher Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Gramlich received his B.A. in Economics from Williams College in 1961 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1962 and 1965 respectively.
Homepage
http://www.urban.org/about/EdwardGramlich.cfm
Publications
Courant, Paul N., Edward M. Gramlich and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, "Public Employee Market Power and the Level of Government Spending," American Economic Review, 69(5), December 1979, 806-817.
Gramlich, Edward M. and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, "Micro Estimates of Public Spending Demand Functions and Tests of the Tiebout and Median-Voter Hypotheses," Journal of Political Economy, 90(3), June 1982, 536-560.
Gramlich, Edward M., "Cooperation and Competition in Public Welfare Policy," Journal of Policy Analysis, 6(3), Spring 1987, 417-431.
Gramlich, Edward M., "Budget Deficits and National Saving: Are Politicians Exogenous?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3(2), Spring 1989, 23-35.
Gramlich, Edward, M., "Moving Into and Out of Poor Urban Areas," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 11(2), Spring 1992, 273-287.
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