Floris Zoutman, PhD

     Associate professor         

     Norwegian School of Economics

     Department of Business and Management Science

    Fields of Interest: Public Economics, Public Finance, Political Economics,              Financial Economics, Economics of Crime

    Working Papers:

• Dynamic Causal Forests with an Appliction to Payroll Tax Incidence in Norway (joint with Evelina Gavrilova and Audun Langørgen)

• The big short (interest): Closing the loopholes in the dividend-withholding tax R&R at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (joint with Elisa Casi-Eberhard, Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman and David Murphy).

• Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types (joint with Etienne Lehmann, Kevin Spiritus and Sander Renes). R&R at Theoretical Economics 

• Optimal Redistributive Taxes and Redistributive Preferences in the Netherlands (joint with Bas Jacobs and Egbert Jongen)

• When a Price is Enough: Implementation in Optimal Tax Design (joint with Sander Renes)

• The Elasticity of Taxable Wealth: Evidence from the Netherlands 

    Publications:

• Juranek, Steffen, and Floris T. Zoutman. "The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia." Journal of Population Economics 34.4 (2021): 1299-1320. 

• Juranek, Steffen, Jörg Paetzold , Hannes Winner and Floris T. Zoutman. "Labor market effects of COVID‐19 in Sweden and its neighbors: Evidence from administrative data." Kyklos 74.4 (2021): 512-526. 

• Gerritsen, Aart and Floris T. Zoutman. "Towards a Tax on Actual Returns" in S.Cnossen and B. Jacobs (ed.) Tax by Design for the Netherlands (2021). Link to version in Dutch.

• Gavrilova, Evelina, Takuma Kamada and Floris T. Zoutman. "Is Legal Pot Crippling the Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime" The Economic Journal 129-617 (2019): 357-407. Prize:  Austin Robinson Memorial Prize for best paper in the Economic Journal by authors within 5 years of receiving their PhD.

• Zoutman, Floris T., Evelina Gavrilova and Arnt O. Hopland, "Identifying and Estimating Supply and Demand Elasticities Using Exogenous Variation in a Single Tax Rate" Econometrica 86-2 (2018): 763-771.

• Jacobs, Bas, Egbert L.W. Jongen and Floris T. Zoutman. "Revealed Social Preferences of Dutch Political Parties" Journal of Public Economics 165 (2017): 81-100.

• Zoutman, Floris T., and Bas Jacobs. "Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Supply." Journal of Public Economics 135 (2016): 15-31. 

       Curriculum Vitae(.pdf)

    Contact information:

       NHH Norwegian School of Economics        

       Department of Business and Management Science       

        Helleveien 30

        5045 Bergen, Norway

       Email: fzoutman (at) gmail.com

        Tel: +47 55959862