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Eileen Norcross

Biography

Eileen Norcross joined the Mercatus Center at George Mason University as a research fellow with the Government Accountability Project in January 2003.

Her research areas include the U.S. Budget, the use of performance budgeting in the Federal government, tax and fiscal policy, and community and economic development.

Before joining Mercatus, Ms. Norcross was the 2001-2002 Warren Brookes Fellow in Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. While there, she focused on trade, regulatory, and tax policies affecting the European Union and the United States.

Before coming to Washington, Ms. Norcross worked for KPMG as a consultant with their transfer pricing division and as a research analyst with Thompson Financial Securities Data where she researched mergers and acquisitions for domestic and international transactions.

A native of New Jersey, Ms. Norcross earned her Masters in Economics from Rutgers University in 1996. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and U.S. History.

Articles, Commentary, and Publications

• Lessons from Business Development Districts: Building on Past Successes
• From BIDs to RIDs
• Road Home
• Mercatus on Policy - All Go in the GO Zone?
• The Community Development Block Grant: Does It Work?
• An Analysis of the Office of Management and Budget's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) for Fiscal Year 2008
• Even the Best Laid Plans
• Your Government Is Getting More Transparent. Why Not Take a Look?
• Community Development Block Grants: The Case for Reform
• Autopilot Budgeting: Will Congress Ever Respond to Government Performance Data?

Events

• Delivering the Goods: Lessons Learned in Disaster Response
• 2007 Capital Campus California Retreat
• Sustainable Prosperity: Keeping California Competitive