Robert Inman
University of Pennsylvania

Robert Inman is the Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Economics. He also holds the title of Professor of Law and Economics the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Law. Prof. Inman is an Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and a Senior Fellow at Penn’s Leonard David Institute.

He received his PhD, M.Ed. and A.B. from Harvard University. He has served on the faculty of the Wharton School since 1971 and has visited a number of institutions around the world over his career, including Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Harvard University; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of London; Australian National University; and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Prof. Inman has served as an advisor to governments at all levels in the United States. In addition, he has provided advice to a number of foreign governments on intergovernmental relationships. He is the author of numerous books and articles on intergovernmental relations and serves as an associate editor on four journals devoted to policy and public finance.

Prof. Inman is an expert on federalism, that is, the regulatory power sharing between various levels of government. He has written specifically on this subject including the recent Journal of Economics Perspectives article, “Rethinking Fiscal Federalism”. Prof. Inman will be a discussant on the first session on the optimal regulation of insurance.