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Edgar L. Feige
Born	19 September 1937 (age 88) Berlin, Germany
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Chicago Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Milton Friedman
Academic work
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral students	Kenneth Singleton

Edgar L. Feige (born 19 September 1937)^[1] is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A graduate of Columbia University (BA. 1958) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1963), he has taught at Yale University; the University of Essex; Erasmus University and held the Cleveringa Chair,^[2] at the University of Leiden in 1981–82. He has published widely on such topics as underground and shadow economies;^[3] tax evasion; transition economics; financial transaction taxes^[4] the Automated Payment Transaction tax (APT tax); and monetary theory and policy.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} He has consulted with various US and international government agencies.^[6][12]

• The Demand for Liquid Assets, Prentice Hall, 1963^[13]
• The Underground Economies: Tax Evasion and Information Distortion, Cambridge University Press, 1989
• Underground Economies in Transition: Unrecorded Activity, Tax Evasion, Corruption and Organized Crime, Ashgate, 1999.

• Taxation for the 21st century: The Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax, Economic Policy, October 2000.^[14]
• Starting Over: The Automated Payment Transaction Tax, Milken Institute Review, 2001.^[15]