The Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop (co-organized with Dermot Murphy and Pengjie Gao) is back for the Spring 2026 semester!! We will host biweekly meetings from February 18th to April 29th to talk about a great set of papers. You can find all papers, schedule, and Zoom links at https://www.muni-workshop.com, including papers and schedules from iterations of the workshop going back to 2020. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to get involved.
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School. I research issues surrounding public finance, corporate and personal income taxation, and financial regulation. My research often uses quasi-experimental variation to answer questions with relevance for designing efficient fiscal and regulatory policy. I am particularly interested in how public entities raise funds–primarily through issuing bonds or raising taxes–and how those mechanisms affect businesses, consumers, investors, and workers.
I am a graduate of Duke University with both an MA and a PhD in Economics. I earned a BS in Economics at Ohio University in the Honors Tutorial College. Before grad school, I worked as a Tax Analysis Professional 1 in the Ohio Department of Taxation and as a Research Associate with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
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email: danielgg@wharton.upenn.edu
