Sergio Ocampo Díaz

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario.

I hold a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.

My research interests are macroeconomic theory and heterogeneous agent macroeconomics.

I am co-PI in the SSHRC Insight Development Grant "Wealth Patterns and Taxation" joint with Rory McGee (CAD 63 thousand, 2022-2024). I am also a project participant of the RCN-funded project "Make Taxation Fair" (FRIPRO, NOK 11.8 million, 2021-2026).

I am part of the Grupo de Economía Laboral (GEL) of the Red de Investigadores.

Link to my CV

Contact: socampod@uwo.ca

Twitter: @socampdi

My Western University page: economics.uwo.ca/people/faculty/ocampodiaz

Recent Research Papers

The life cycle dynamics of wealth mobility [April 2024]

with Richar Audoly, Rory McGee, and Gonzalo Paz Pardo (Long Slides, Slides, Shapley-Owen Decomposition)

Book-value wealth taxation, capital income taxation, and innovation [April 2024]

with Fatih Guvenen, Gueorgui Kambourov, Burhan Kuruscu (Slides, Old Version)

Extending the range of robust PCE inflation measures [April 2024]

with Raphael Schoenle and Dominic Smith (Old versions: arXiv, CEPR Discussion Paper 17485, data file, slides, CEBRA video presentation, Inflation in 3 video)

A task-based theory of occupations [January 2022] (Slides, CHPC working paper)

Work in Progress

Fairness through markets with Paolo Piacquadio

On the mechanics of wealth inequality at the top with Fatih Guvenen and Serdar Ozkan

Published or Forthcoming Papers

Use it or lose it: Efficiency and redistributional effects of wealth taxation [The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023]

with Fatih Guvenen, Gueorgui Kambourov, Burhan Kuruscu and Daphne Chen (Open access version, Old NBER working paper, Computational Appendix)

Coverage: Financial Times (Free Lunch, Article), The Economist (Article), Bloomberg (Noah Smith: 2016, 2019), St. Louis Fed (interview with Fatih Guvenen), Observatorio Fiscal (Online OpEd, in Spanish)

The macroeconomic consequences of subsistence self-employment [Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023]

with Juan Herreño (Slides, Open access version, Draft, 2019 with add. prod. shifters)

Computing longitudinal moments for heterogeneous agent models [Computational Economics, 2023]

with Baxter Robinson (GitHub repo, Open access version)

The evolution of U.S. retail concentration [AEJ-Macroeconomics, Forthcoming]

with Dominic Smith (Open access version, BLS Working Paper 526, Slides)

Robust contracts in common agency [The RAND Journal of Economics, Forthcoming]

with Keler Marku and Jean Baptiste Tondji