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Department of Economics

Research

Working Papers

Mirrlees meets Diamond-Mirrlees: Simplifying Nonlinear Income Taxation (PDF, 323 KB)
with Iván Werning
September 2018
older version available as NBER working paper 22076

A Theory of Income Taxation under Multidimensional Skill Heterogeneity (PDF, 733 KB)
with Casey Rothschild
December 2014 
older version available as NBER working paper 19822
 

Publications

Does A Progressive Wealth Tax Reduce Top Wealth Inequality? Evidence From Switzerland  (PDF, 809 KB)
with Samira Marti and Isabel Martínez
forthcoming, Oxford Review of Economic Policy special issue on "Taxing the Rich (More)”
also available as CEPR discussion paper 17989

Signaling to Experts (PDF, 852 KB)
with Pablo Kurlat
Review of Economic Studies 88 (2021), 800-850.
older version available as NBER working paper 23817

Taxing Our Wealth (PDF, 3 MB)
with Joel Slemrod
Journal of Economic Perspectives 35 (2021), 207-230.
also available as NBER working paper 28150

Taxing the Superrich - Challenges of a Fair Tax System (PDF, 1 MB)
UBS Center Public Paper 9 (2020)

Taxation and the Superrich (PDF, 424 KB)
with Joel Slemrod
Annual Review of Economics, 12 (2020), 189-211.
older version available as NBER working paper 26207

How Initial Conditions Can Have Permanent Effects: The Case of the Affordable Care Act (PDF, 2 MB)
with Kent Smetters
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 10 (2018), 302-343. 
older version available as NBER working paper 19835

The Taxation of Superstars (PDF, 405 KB)
with Iván Werning
Quarterly Journal of Economics 132 (2017), 211-270.
older version available as NBER working paper 21323

Capital Taxation under Political Constraints (PDF, 326 KB)
with Alexander Wolitzky
American Economic Review 106 (2016), 2304-2328.
older version available as NBER working paper 20043

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking (PDF, 787 KB)
with Casey Rothschild
Review of Economic Studies 83 (2016), 1225-1262.
older version available as NBER working paper 17035

Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry (PDF, 484 KB) 
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6 (2014), 126-163. 
longer version available as NBER working paper 19235

A Game Theoretic Foundation of Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection (PDF, 252 KB)
with Nick Netzer
International Economic Review 55 (2014), 399-422.
also available as NBER working paper 18471

Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model (PDF, 562 KB)
with Casey Rothschild
Quarterly Journal of Economics 128 (2013), 623-668.
older version available as NBER working paper 18228

Adverse Selection In Credit Markets and Regressive Profit Taxation (PDF, 480 KB)
Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013), 1333-1360.
older version available as NBER working paper 18406

Optimal Asset Taxes in Financial Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty (PDF, 222 KB)
Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013), 405-420.
also available as NBER working paper 17817

Balance Billing: The Patients’ Perspective (PDF, 208 KB)
with Mathias Kifmann
Health Economics Review 1 (2011), 1-14.

Competitive Markets without Commitment (PDF, 347 KB)
with Nick Netzer
Journal of Political Economy 118 (2010), 1079-1109.

Competitive Screening in Insurance Markets with Endogenous Wealth Heterogeneity (PDF, 638 KB)
with Nick Netzer
Economic Theory 44 (2010), 187-211.

Taxation, Insurance, and Precautionary Labor (PDF, 397 KB)
with Nick Netzer
Journal of Public Economics 91 (2007), 1519-1531.