Using Consumption Data to Derive Optimal Income and Capital Tax Rates
With Christian Hellwig
June 2025
Revised and Resubmitted, 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
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
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
Generalized Compensation Principle
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
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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