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Austin Drukker

Economist

Bureau, Office or Division
Antitrust
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Selected Publications

  • "How Essential Is Essential Air Service? The Value of Airport Access for Remote Communities," Working Paper, 2024.
  • "Seamless Travel: The Case for Global Airline Deregulation," with Clifford Winston, Working Paper, 2024.
  • "Internal Migration and the Effective Price of State and Local Taxes," International Tax and Public Finance, 2024.
  • "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

  • How Essential Is Essential Air Service? The Value of Airport Access for Remote Communities. Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC (2024)
  • Seamless Travel: The Case for Global Airline Deregulation. International Industrial Organization Conference. Boston, MA (2024)
  • 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)
  • 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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