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Austin Drukker

Economist

Bureau, Office or Division
Antitrust
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Selected Publications

  • "Seamless Travel: The Case for Global Airline Deregulation," with Clifford Winston, Working Paper, 2023.
  • "How Essential Is Essential Air Service? The Value of Airport Access for Remote Communities," Working Paper, 2023.
  • "Internal Migration and the Effective Price of State and Local Taxes," Working Paper, 2023.
  • "Revitalizing a Nation: Competition and Innovation in the US Transportation System," with Clifford Winston, Jia Yan, Scott Dennis, Hyeonjun Hwang, Jukwan Lee, Vikram Maheshri, Chad Shirley, and Xinlong Tan, Brookings Institution Press, 2023. 
  • "Implications of a Mortgage Interest Credit for the United States," Public Finance Review, 2021.
  • "The Mortgage Interest Deduction: Revenue and Distributional Effects," with Ted Gayer and Harvey S. Rosen, Journal of Housing Research, 2021.
  • "Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds and the Financing of Professional Sports Stadiums," with Ted Gayer and Alexander K. Gold, National Tax Journal, 2020.

Selected Presentations

  • The Potential Economic Benefits of Seamless International Air Travel. Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA (2023)
  • Is Public Bus Transit a Competitor or a Subordinate to Public Rail Transit? Economics of Public Transit Conference (National Bureau of Economic Research). Cambridge, MA (2023)
  • How Essential Is Essential Air Service? The Value of Airport Access for Remote Communities. International Industrial Organization Conference. Washington, DC (2023)
  • Internal Migration and the Effective Price of State and Local Taxes. Annual Conference on Taxation (National Tax Association). Virtual (2021)
  • Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds and the Financing of Professional Sports Stadiums. Tax Economists Forum. Washington, DC (2019)

Education

University of Arizona
PhD, Economics
University of Arizona
MA, Economics
Gordon College
BS, Economics and Mathematics

Fields of Interest

  • Industrial Organization
  • Transportation
  • Public Finance

Professional Experience

Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2023-Present

Research Assistant
The Brookings Institution
2015-2018

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