NBER Profile: James R. Hines, Jr.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research

James Hines is associate professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He teaches courses on tax policy both in the Kennedy School and in the economics department at Harvard.

Hines holds a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard, all in economics. Before coming to Harvard, he taught in the economics departments at Princeton and Columbia, and in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.

Hines is also a member of the editorial boards of the journals World Politics and International Tax and Public Finance. Previously, he was an economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Hines's research concerns international taxation, particularly the taxation of...