Debt Forgiveness and Household Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(with Marco Francesconi, Anna Thoresson and Gylfi Zoega)
This paper studies how households adjust consumption, debt repayment, and financial behavior following a large-scale debt forgiveness program using administrative data from Iceland.
Updated draft coming soon.
Previously called Labor Supply Response to a Tax Holiday: The Take-Home from a Large and Salient Shock, Finalist at ITAX PhD Student Award 2018
This paper develops a framework for identifying Frisch labor supply elasticities using responses to temporary tax changes under heterogeneous responses and labor market frictions.
Updated draft coming soon.
Assessing the Impact of Alcohol Sales Restrictions on Alcohol Consumption (with Tuomas Kosonen, Lukas Worku and Sami Jysmä)
This paper evaluates how liberalizing alcohol sales regulations affects purchasing behavior and alcohol consumption using detailed administrative sales data from Finland and Sweden.
Updated draft coming soon.
Do Past Experiences of Economic Troubles Reduce Household Consumption? (with Sigurður P. Ólafsson)
This paper studies whether previous experiences of financial hardship influence subsequent household consumption decisions.
Updated draft coming soon.
Rents without markets (with Cristina Bratu, Rodrigo Martinez-Mazza and Sander Ramboer)
Updated draft coming soon.
Does Mandatory Saving Reduce Voluntary Saving? Evidence from a Pension Reform,
(with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Sigurður P. Ólafsson, Þorsteinn S. Sveinsson, and Gylfi Zoega), The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
Inequality and Assortative Mating in Iceland,
(with Arnaldur Kristjánsson), Íslenska þjóðfélagið, 2025
(with Per Engström and Katarina Nordblom), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022
(with Per Engström, Eskil Forsell and Johannes Hagen), International Tax and Public Finance, 2019
(with Alex Voorhoeve and Brian Wallace), Economics and Philosophy, 2019
(with Alex Voorhoeve, Ken Binmore and Lisa Stewart), Theory and Decision, 2016