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{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}{{Use American English|date=July 2022}} '''Kimberly Clausing''' is an American economist. She is the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. From 2021 to 2022, she was the deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the United States Department of the Treasury. Clausing is known for her work on international trade and tax policy, particularly the taxation of multinational corporations.
==Education== Clausing graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Carleton College in 1991. She then attended Harvard University and received an MA in economics in 1993. She received her PhD in economics from Harvard in 1996 with a thesis titled ''Essays in International Economic Integration.'' From 1994 to 1995, she worked as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. After earning her PhD, at the age of 25, she started teaching economics at Reed College, eventually becoming Thormund Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clausing, Kimberly {{!}} UCLA Law|url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberly-clausing|access-date=2021-06-15|website=law.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref> From 2006 to 2007, she was an associate professor at Wellesley College.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kimberly Clausing |url=https://www.reed.edu/economics/clausing/ |website=Reed College |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref>
==Career and contributions==
An expert on the taxation of multinational firms, Clausing studies international tax incentives, base erosion and profit shifting, tax inversion, and their connections to international trade.
She has received two Fulbright Research awards, one to the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels in 1999 and one to the Eastern Mediterranean University and the University of Cyprus in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Cyprus-Cyprus-Nicosia |url=https://www.cies.org/institution/university-cyprus-cyprus-nicosia |website=Fulbright Scholar Program |accessdate=16 August 2019 |archive-date=August 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816234604/https://www.cies.org/institution/university-cyprus-cyprus-nicosia |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Clausing has worked on economic policy research with the International Monetary Fund, the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution and the Tax Policy Center, and she has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kimberly A. Clausing |url=https://www.hamiltonproject.org/people/kimberly_a._clausing |website=The Hamilton Project |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Statement of Kimberly A. Clausing Before the House Ways and Means Committee |url=https://docs.house.gov/meetings/WM/WM00/20170523/106021/HHRG-115-WM00-Wstate-ClausingK-20170523.pdf |website=Ways and Means Committee |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Testimony of Kimberly A. Clausing Before the Senate Committee on Finance |url=https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Clausing%20SFC%20Testimony%2010.3.17.pdf |website=United States Senate Committee on Finance |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref>
She criticized the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, arguing that "the bill replies to decades of worsening income inequality with arguably the most regressive tax policy change of our lifetimes" and that "the bill answers our huge problem of multinational company profit shifting by increasing the incentive to offshore."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly |title=The GOP's final tax bill has four fatal flaws |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/365404-the-gops-final-tax-bill-has-four-fatal-flaws |website=The Hill |accessdate=14 August 2019 |date=18 December 2017}}</ref>
Clausing has provided informal policy advice to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, a long-time supporter of tax reform.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hernandez |first1=Romel |title=Follow the Money |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2014/articles/features/Clausing.html |website=Reed Magazine |accessdate=14 August 2019}}</ref> Since 2017, she has been an opinion contributor for ''The Hill''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly |title=US companies are doing fine, but tax reform can still help |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/336770-us-companies-are-doing-fine-but-tax-reform-can-still-help?amp |website=The Hill |accessdate=16 August 2019 |language=en |date=7 June 2017}}</ref>
In March 2019, Clausing published her first book, ''Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919334 |website=Harvard University Press |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref>
Clausing joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Law in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clausing Joins Treasury Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary {{!}} UCLA Law|url=https://law.ucla.edu/news/clausing-joins-treasury-department-deputy-assistant-secretary|access-date=2021-06-15|website=law.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref> Later that year, she was nominated and confirmed to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Treasury Announces Appointment of Several Members of Staff {{!}} U.S. Department of the Treasury|url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0020|access-date=2021-06-15|website=home.treasury.gov}}</ref> She left her position at the Treasury Department in 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Jennifer |date=2022-06-01 |title=Treasury Tax Official Leaving Biden Administration |language=en |work=Bloomberg News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/treasury-tax-official-leaving-biden-administration |access-date=2022-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Rappeport |first1=Alan |last2=Tankersley |first2=Jim |date=2022-07-18 |title=How Joe Manchin Left a Global Tax Deal in Limbo |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/18/us/politics/joe-manchin-tax.html |access-date=2022-07-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Selected works== * {{cite book |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly |title=Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital |date=2019 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0674919334}} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |last2=Avi-Yonah |first2=Reuven S. |title=Problems with Destination - Based Corporate Taxes and the Ryan Blueprint |journal=Columbia Journal of Tax Law |date=2017 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=229–256}} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=The Effect of Profit Shifting on the Corporate Tax Base in the United States and Beyond |journal=National Tax Journal |date=December 2016 |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=905–934|doi=10.17310/ntj.2016.4.09 |s2cid=53070736 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=The U.S. State Experience under Formulary Apportionment: Are There Lessons for International Reform? |journal=National Tax Journal |date=June 2016 |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=353–386|doi=10.17310/ntj.2016.2.04 |s2cid=53310891 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=Multinational firm tax avoidance and tax policy |journal=National Tax Journal |date=December 2009 |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=703–725 |doi=10.17310/ntj.2009.4.06 |s2cid=153354245 |url=https://www.ntanet.org/NTJ/62/4/ntj-v62n04p703-25-multinational-firm-tax-avoidance.pdf |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |access-date=September 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309024557/https://www.ntanet.org/NTJ/62/4/ntj-v62n04p703-25-multinational-firm-tax-avoidance.pdf |url-status=dead }} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=Corporate tax revenues in OECD countries |journal=International Tax and Public Finance |date=April 2007 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=115–133|doi=10.1007/s10797-006-7983-2 |s2cid=143429098 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=Tax-motivated transfer pricing and US intrafirm trade prices |journal=Journal of Public Economics |date=September 2003|volume=87 |issue=9–10 |pages=2207–2223|doi=10.1016/S0047-2727(02)00015-4 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=Trade creation and trade diversion in the Canada - United States Free Trade Agreement |journal=Canadian Journal of Economics |date=August 2001 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=677–69|doi=10.1111/0008-4085.00094 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Clausing |first1=Kimberly A. |title=Does multinational activity displace trade? |journal=Economic Inquiry |date=April 2000 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=190–205|doi=10.1111/j.1465-7295.2000.tb00013.x }}
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==External links== * [https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberly-clausing Kimberly Clausing's home page] * [https://www.reed.edu/economics/clausing/cv.pdf Curriculum Vitae of Kimberly Clausing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709005204/https://www.reed.edu/economics/clausing/cv.pdf |date=July 9, 2019 }} * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XggtPXMAAAAJ Publications by Kimberly Clausing] * [https://www.ft.com/content/42cfee76-a1c8-4671-819c-cfaddda70bef FT Podcast Alphachat: Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies] * [https://player.fm/series/the-weeds/a-progressive-case-for-globalism Vox Weeds Podcast, A Progressive Case for Globalism] * [https://www.brookings.edu/events/kim-clausing-the-progressive-case-for-free-trade-and-globalization/ Brookings Event: Kimberly Clausing: The progressive case for free trade and globalization] {{Authority control}}
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