Jennifer L. Blouin

Jennifer Blouin is an associate professor of accounting in The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies taxation in many contexts, including capital structure, asset pricing, payout policy and multinational firm behavior. Her research has been published in top-tier academic journals including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, National Tax Journal and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. She has received funding from the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, the Global Initiatives Research Program and the International Tax Policy Forum. In addition, Professor Blouin was a 2009-2010 Golub Faculty Scholar and the 2010-2011 Clarence Nickman Assistant Professor of Accounting. 

Professor Blouin teaches taxation to undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students. She won Wharton's 2010 MBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and her BS from Indiana University - Bloomington. Prior to obtaining her PhD, Professor Blouin was a tax manager with Arthur Andersen LLP.