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LATEST NEWS
2026-08-31: Check out our updated Working Paper "Inheritance and Labor Supply" (previously titled "The Output Cost of Inheritance") with Marius Brülhart, Aurelién Eyquem and Enrico Rubolino.
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2026-08-23: I will be at IIPF Annual Congress in Lisbon (August 23-26) presenting two new papers: Inequality and Redistribution in Switzerland: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA) (with E. Baselgia, R. Gurtner and J. Koller) and Fair Inequality (with S. Bowles, W. Carlin, M. Greenberg, and L. Beekers). You can find the entire session program here.
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ABOUT ME
My research focuses on the distribution of income and wealth, taxation, and how individuals respond to taxes and other economic incentives. I founded and head the research section Inequality and Public Economics at the KOF Institute at ETH Zurich.
I am a CEPR and CESifo Research Affiliate, and a Research Fellow at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin. I am also a Fellow of the World Inequality Database (WID.world) and the SIAW Institute at the University of St.Gallen. In 2021/2022, I was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Since 2018, I have been a Member of the Swiss Competition Commission, elected by the Federal Council to represent labor organizations. Before joining ETH Zurich in 2020, I worked as an economist at the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions SGB-USS.
My academic work — which has been published in leading scientific journals including the American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Urban Economics — has a strong policy focus. I also regularly contribute to print media and appear on radio and television. I have been listed among the Top 10 of the Most Influential Economists in Switzerland by the leading newspaper NZZ, and I rank among the Top 3% Female Economists (out of over 19,000 listed female economists) in the global RePEc database, based on publications over the past ten years.
At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, I initiated trendEcon, an open-source project that provides daily indicators of economic activity and sentiment based on Google search data, allowing to monitor the economy in real time. The project remains live, with continuously updated time series for Switzerland that are also available through data providers such as Macrobond.
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