Our Experts

Andrew Chamberlain
Chief Economist
Andrew Chamberlain is Chief Economist at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. He specializes in public finance economics and has written widely on tax and budget policy. His previous studies include econometric estimates of demand elasticities, various estimates of tax and budget incidence, statistical methods for estimating tax burdens by narrow geographic areas, and using input-output models to estimate tax pyramiding and the distribution of household burdens from environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems.

Andrew’s work has been cited in U.S. congressional testimony, NBER working papers, OECD working papers, and published in or featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Economist, Newsweek, Tax Notes and others. He has appeared as a television guest on MSNBCs “Connected Coast to Coast,” CNBCs “Kudlow & Company” and various radio stations. Previously Andrew served as a staff economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C., and at the Cato Institute. While in Washington, Andrew briefed both Democratic and Republican congressional staff on his research as well as analysts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and various think tanks.

Andrew holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and has studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds B.A. degrees in Economics (cum laude) and Business Administration (magna cum laude) from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Gerald Prante
Adjunct Economist
Gerald Prante is an Adjunct Economist at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. He has conducted research on federal, state and local policy issues with a special emphasis on data analysis, microsimulation modeling and analysis of local geographic data. At the federal level, Gerald specializes in personal income taxation and distributional analysis.

Gerald’s research has been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Post, among others. He has appeared as a television guest on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” as well as CNBC and numerous radio programs.

Gerald holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University with specializations in public finance and industrial organization. He currently teaches economics at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.

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Michael Wither
Senior Economist
Michael Wither is a Senior Economist at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. He specializes in industrial organization, public finance economics and applied microeconomics. Michael served as a research assistant at the University of California, San Diego, where he worked on a project examining the scheduling practices of the U.S. airline industry. He also worked at Europe Economics in London, U.K., estimating the expected costs and benefits of the U.K. government’s proposals to tighten the energy efficiency standards in building regulations. Michael has also assisted economists at Loyola Marymount University on the networking effects of art dealers.

Michael holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, where he is currently working towards his Ph.D. He holds a B.S. degree in Economics (summa cum laude) from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

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