Research

In my research, I focus on the interaction between labor income taxation and a variety of economic agents and outcomes, with a special focus on the effects of globalization on that interaction.

Ongoing Work:

• (with Carolina Nunes), Collateral Consequences: The Debt Channel of Investment Tax Incentives

• (with Killian Carroll), How does income tax policy vary over the economic cycle?

• (with Georg Thunecke & Lisa Scheckenhofer), War, Sanctions and Third-party Trade Partners: Evidence from South Africa

  • • supported by UNU-WIDER project Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development / SA-TIED)

• (with Matthew Abagna, Ron Davies, Nadine Riedel, & Biniyam Worku), Do Special Economic Zones Foster Economic Development? – Evidence from South Africa

  • • supported by NORAD (Norwegian Development Agency) and a Research Council of Norway grant (held by A. Alstadsæter)

• (with Georg Thunecke & Benedikt Zoller-Rydzek), Falling tariffs: implications of globalization-induced tariff reductions on firms, workers, and tax revenues

  • • WIDER Working Paper 23/2024 (part of UNU-WIDER project Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development / SA-TIED)

    • supported by NORAD (Norwegian Development Agency) and a Research Council of Norway grant (held by A. Alstadsæter)

• (with Michele Gubello), A Theory of Perverse Redistribution in Higher Education and Income Tax Progressivity in Europe 

  • • Online Appendix

    • LIS Working Paper Series, 2024, 889.

    • CEPR Discussion Paper, 2024, DP19671. 

    • previously circulated as Weakly Progressive: Disproportionate Higher Education Attendance and the Structure of Income Taxes (UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series 2022, WP22/26).