Edward G. Fox
Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Contact
edfox@umich.edu
Education
B.A., Columbia, 2007
J.D., Yale Law School, 2015
Ph.D., University of Michigan (economics), 2018
Research and Teaching Interests
Primary:
Tax Law (Individual and Corporate)
Secondary:
Business Organizations, Securities Regulation
Law and Economics, Empirical Methods
Research
Publications
Do Taxes Affect Marriage? Lessons from History, American Law and Economics Review (2023) (pdf)
The Psychology of Taxing Capital Income: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on the Realization Rule, Journal of Public Economics (2022) (with Zach Liscow) (pdf)
No New Tax Cuts? Examining the Rescue Plan's New State Tax Limits, 103 TAX NOTES STATE 1361 (2022) (with Conor Clarke) (pdf)
Sharp Lines and Sliding Scales in Tax Law, 73 TAX LAW REVIEW 237 (with Jacob Goldin) (2020) (pdf)
Is There A Delaware Effect For Controlled Firms?, 23 U. PENN. BUSINESS L.J. 1 (2020) (pdf, published version)
A Case for Higher Corporate Tax Rates, 167 Tax Notes 2021 (June 2020) (with Zach Liscow) [pdf]
Does Capital Bear the Corporate Tax After All? New Evidence from U.S. Corporate Tax Returns, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, March 2020 [SSRN version; published version]
Alpha Duties: The Search for Excess Returns and Appropriate Fiduciary Duties, 97 Texas Law Review 445 (2019) (with Ian Ayres) [pdf]
Economic Crisis and the Integration of Law and Finance: The Impact of Volatility Spikes, 116 Columbia Law Review 325 (2016) (with Merritt Fox and Ronald Gilson) [pdf]
Note, Perceptions of Taxing and Spending: A Survey Experiment, 124 Yale Law Journal 1252 (2015) (with Conor Clarke) [pdf]
Working Papers
The Poison Pill in Canada: A Road Not Taken (with Gabriel Rauterberg)
Who Benefits from Corporate Tax Cuts? Evidence from Banks and Credit Unions around the TCJA (with Ben Pyle)
