Consumption, Wealth, and Income Inequality: A Tale of Tails
With Alexandre Gaillard, Christian Hellwig, and Philipp Wangner
November 2023
Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Extreme Poverty in Wealthy Nations: Evidence from France
With Christophe Bruneel-Zupanc, Alexandre Gaillard, Christian Hellwig, and Philipp Wangner
June 2026
Taxing Entrepreneurs and Workers: A Linear Optimization Approach for Multidimensional Screening
With Nicolo Ceneri, Giuseppe Lopomo, and Alessandro Villa
June 2026
Using Consumption Data to Derive Optimal Top Income and Capital Tax Rates
With Christian Hellwig
March 2026
Accepted, Journal of Political Economy
Note: This paper supersedes our earlier working paper: A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage
Generalized Compensation Principle
Online Appendix, VoxEU Summary
With Karl Schulz and Aleh Tsyvinski
Theoretical Economics, November 2023, 18(4) pp. 1665-1710
Redistribution with Performance Pay
With Pawel Doligalski and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics, June 2023, 1(2) pp. 371-402
Taxes and Turnout: When the Decisive Voter Stays at Home
With Felix Bierbrauer and Aleh Tsyvinski
American Economic Review, February 2022, 112(2) pp. 689-719
Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium
Online Appendix, Working Paper with additional results
With Dominik Sachs and Aleh Tsyvinski
Econometrica, March 2020, 88(2) pp. 469-93
Recursive Contracts and Endogenously Incomplete Markets
With Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski
Handbook of Macroeconomics, January 2016, vol. 2 pp. 725-841
Is the Economy Growing in a "K Shape" (And Should We Be Worried About It)? Examining Recent Trends in Inequality
With Maya D'Mello, Diego Jimenez Hernandez, Ezra Karger, and Alli Marney-Bell
June 2026
Estimating the Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Employment: Evidence from the American Rescue Plan Act
With Maya D'Mello and Shanthi Ramnath
June 2026
Quarterly Industry-Level Labor Productivity Data for the U.S.
QILP dataset and release notes
With Bart Hobijn, Marti Mestieri, and Jing Zhang
Economic Perspectives, No. 1, January 2025
The Hammer and the Dance: Equilibrium and Optimal Policy During a Pandemic Crisis
With Tiziana Assenza, Fabrice Collard, Martial Dupaigne, Patrick Fève, Christian Hellwig, Sumudu Kankanamge
August 2020
A Variational Approach to the Analysis of Tax Systems
With Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski
December 2014
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