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John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management

Jonathan Feinstein is interested in creativity and innovation, and the paths of creative development of entrepreneurs and creators of all kinds. He is the author of The Nature of Creative Development (Stanford University Press, 2006). His class The Practice and Management of Creativity & Innovation was featured in the BusinessWeek Online article, "Creativity Comes to B-Schools" in the spring of 2006. He co-teaches the Careers class with Amy Wrzesniewski. Professor Feinstein is also an expert in the field of tax compliance and the analysis of audit and detection processes. He is affiliated with the Daniel Rose Yale-Technion Counterterror Research Initiative, and currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Selected Articles
"Creativity & The Economic System" in B. Kerr, ed.,  Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, SAGE Publications, forthcoming

"Econometric Models for Multi-Stage Audit Processes: An Application to the IRS National Research Program'' (with Brian Erard), in J. Martinez-Vazquez and J. Alm, eds., Tax Compliance and Evasion, forthcoming

"The Distinctiveness of Individuals: Using Knowledge Structures To Represent Research Focuses; The Field of Stem Cell Research," Proceedings of the 9th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Advances in Intelligent Systems Research, Atlantis Press, online, October, 2006.  http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/aisr/jcis-06/index.html

"Public Goods in Trade: On the Formation of Markets and Jurisdictions" (with A. Casella), International Economic Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, May, 2002

"Tax Compliance" (with J. Andreoni and B. Erard), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 1998. Reprinted in Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, edited by S. James, Routledge, 2002

"Elderly Asset Management and Health" (with C. Ho) (with commentary by J. Skinner), in Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation, edited by William G. Gale, James R. Hines, and Joel Slemrod, Brookings Institution Press, 2001

"Approaches for Estimating Noncompliance: Examples from Federal Taxation in the United States," The Economic Journal, Vol. 109, No. 456, June, 1999

"The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Review of the Literature," The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2, 279-322, 1993

"Detection Controlled Estimation," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 33, No. 1, 233-76, April, 1990

"The Safety Regulation of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants: Violations, Inspections, and Abnormal Occurrences," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 97, No. 1, 115-54, February, 1989

Working Papers
"Creative Development in a Field"

Education
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
BA Stanford University, 1982