Dr. Murray holds a joint appointment with the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) and the Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is associate director of CBER, director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, the Ball Corporation Professor of Business in the College of Business Administration, and program director for the Public Administration Major in Economics. He served as department head of Economics from 1997 to 2002 and director of Graduate Studies from 2002 to 2007. His research interests include state and local tax policy, education finance, tax compliance, and regional economic development. Dr. Murray is a member of the National Tax Association and the American Economics Association. Dr. Murray's work in CBER includes maintenance of the state econometric forecasting model that supports the annual Economic Report to the Governor and the quarterly Tennessee Business and Economic Outlook. He has worked closely with state and local governments on a wide range of public policy issues including economic development incentives, economic/fiscal impact analysis, tax policy analysis, education finance reform, and transportation infrastructure finance.