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Rudolph G. Penner
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Rudolph G. Penner was director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987.
Information from the Urban Institute
Rudolph Penner is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute. Before joining Urban, he was a managing director of the Barents Group, a KPMG Company. Penner directed the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987 and was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute from 1977 to 1983. His previous posts in government include assistant director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.
Penner was elected president of the American Tax Policy Institute in 2005 and is past president of the National Economists Club. He received the Abramson Prize for the best article published in 1988–89 in Business Economics and a prize for the best article published in 2002 in Public Budgeting and Finance.
In 2004, Penner chaired the Commission on Metro Financing for the Washington Metropolitan Area Council of Governments and others. In 2009–10, he cochaired the Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States for the National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is on the boards of MDRC, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Fix the Debt. He is also on the advisory committee for the Committee for Economic Development and for the American Council for Capital Formation.
Penner received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and his doctorate degree in economics from the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Penner’s Information on the Website for the Urban Institute.
Short List of Examples of Scholarly Work by Rudolph Penner
| Can Faster Growth Save Social Security? (December 2003) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute) |
| Dealing with Uncertain Budget Forecasts (Spring 2002) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute) |
| Health Care Costs, Taxes, and the Retirement Decision: Conceptual Issues and Illustrative Simulations (October 2006) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute)
Johnson, Richard W. (Urban Institute) |
| Distinguished Address: The Near-Term Outlook for Fiscal Policy (April 2000) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute) |
| Health Care Costs, Taxes, and the Retirement Decision: Conceptual Issues and Illustrative Simulation (November 1, 2006) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute); Johnson, Richard W. (Urban Institute) |
| When Budgeting Was Easier: Eisenhower and the 1960 Budget (Winter 2014) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute) |
| The Hard Road to Fiscal Responsibility (Fall 2012) | Palmer, John L. (Syracuse University – Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute) |
| Do We Need a VAT to Solve Our Long-Run Budget Problems? (August 31, 2010) | Penner, Rudolph G. (Urban Institute) |
Biography from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Rudolph Penner
Rudolph G. Penner is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a managing director of the Barents Group, a KPMG Company. He was director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987. From 1977 to 1983, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previous posts in government include assistant director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors.
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