Steven Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington University in Washington DC, a Visiting Fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Australian National University, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for International Economic Policy at GWU. Steven’s primary area of research is public finance, where he studies the effects of taxes on behavior with a view to designing better tax policy. Steven made significant contributions to small business support policy during the COVID-19 crisis, authoring a major small business support policy proposal for the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, and providing extensive commentary in the US and Australia on wage subsidies and other business support measures. Steven has published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, the Australian Financial Review, and The Age, among other major outlets, and has provided extensive economic commentary to the New York Times, the LA Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Slate, The Hill, the Sydney Morning Herald, and The Australian, among others. Steven is a former economist at the Australian Treasury, where he worked on the federal budget, and reviews of climate change policy and flood insurance. Steven holds a PhD and MA in economics from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours and Bachelor of Business Management from the University of Queensland.