Kimberly Clausing holds the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, and she is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. During the first part of the Biden administration, Dr. Clausing was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, serving as the lead economist in the Office of Tax Policy.
Professor Clausing’s research examines how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in the global economy. She has published numerous articles on taxation, climate policy, and international trade, and she is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019).
Dr. Clausing is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on many occasions, and she has received two Fulbright Research awards as well as many external research grants. Professor Clausing received her PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1996.
Episode 124: Tariffs, Taxes, and Their International Ramifications
The Trump administration has taken sweeping actions on tariffs, with more scheduled to be imposed in April. On this episode of The Zeitgeist, Kim Clausing explains the administration’s approach to …
