Facundo Alvaredo



Affiliations

Researcher, CONICET
NS Research Fellow, Nuffield College & INET@OMS, Oxford
Research Fellow affiliated to the Paris School of Economics
Research Affiliate, CEPR and CESifo


Education

PhD in Economics, Paris School of Economics, 2008
MPhil (DEA) in Economics, DELTA-École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
MA in Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Licenciado in Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires


Research Interests
 
Public Economics, Taxation, Income and Wealth Distributions, Economic History


Previous Positions
 
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics and Center for Equitable Growth, University of California-Berkeley, Summer 2010
Visiting Scholar, NBER/Harvard, Fall 2009
Junior Researcher, CREST (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique), 2006-2008
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Summers 2005, 2006, 2007


Publications

In refereed journals

A Note on the Relationship between Top Income Shares and the Gini Coefficient; Economics Letters, 110(3): 274-277, 2011; pdf. Updated version as CEPR DP 8071. pdf

Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, with Emmanuel Saez; Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(5): 1140-1167, 2009. pdf  NEW: Tables and Figures updated to 2008.

Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005; Explorations in Economic History, 46(4): 404-417, 2009. pdf appendix Tables and Figures

The Monetary Method to Measure the Shadow Economy: The Forgotten Problem of the Initial Conditions, with Hildegart Ahumada and Alfredo Canavese; Economics Letters, 101(2): 97-99, 2008. pdf

The Monetary Method and the Size of the Shadow Economy: A Critical Assessment, with Hildegart Ahumada and Alfredo Canavese. Review of Income and Wealth, 53(2): 363-371, 2007. pdf

La Méthode Monetaire pour l’Estimation de l’Économie Informelle: Une Étude Critique de ses Usages, with Hildegart Ahumada and Alfredo Canavese, Revue Économique, 60(5): 1069-1078, 2009. pdf


Chapters in books

Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, with Emmanuel Saez; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty (editors) Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century vol. II: A Global Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, Chapter 10 (longer version of Alvaredo and Saez, 2009, ut supra). pdf

Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty, op. cit., Chapter 11 (longer version of Alvaredo, 2009, ut supra).

The Rich in Argentina over the Twentieth Century 1932-2004; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty, op. cit., Chapter 6. pdf

Top Incomes in Italy 1974-2004, with Elena Pisano; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty, op. cit., Chapter 12. pdf Tables and Figures

The Dynamics of Income Concentration in Developed and Developing Countries: A View from the Top, with Thomas Piketty; in L. Lopez-Calva and N. Lustig (editors) Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?, Chapter 4; Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2010. pdf


Work in progress/Working Papers

Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2007, with Tony Atkinson. CEPR DP 8155 (older version as OxCarre Research Paper 46). pdf 

The Effects of Payroll Tax Caps on Gross and Net Earnings Distributions: Evidence and Implications, with Emmanuel Saez.

Payroll Tax Incidence: Evidence from France, with Antoine Bozio and Julien Grenet.

Income Concentration and the Income Tax in the French Colonies, with Thomas Piketty and Denis Cogneau.

Inequality in Colonial India in the XIX century, with Guilhem Cassan.

Income Distribution in Argentina in the Long Run, Exceptionalism or Convergence?, with Leonardo Gasparini and Guillermo Cruces, for the book Argentine Exceptionalism: Some Explanations for a Hundred Years of Economic Divergence, coordinated by E. Glaeser and R. Di Tella.

Top Incomes and Personal Taxation in Brazil 1930-2000.

Top Incomes in Israel since 1949, with Karine van der Beek and Mark Gradstein.


The World Top Incomes Database

By F. Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Access here.


References
 
Thomas Piketty, webpage
Emmanuel Saez, webpage
Tony Atkinson, webpage


Miscellanea

A few minutes of extraordinary singing:

Macbethby M. Callas.
I Puritaniby G. di Stefano.
Medea, by M. Callas


In Memoriam

Alfredo Canavese: pdf (text written by P. Gerchunoff and D. Heymann, in Spanishpicture
Francisco Pancho Azamor: picture ("En arte no hay progreso. No hay pueblo sin arte. Vemos lo que sabemos.")