Research

Working Papers

1. New: Tax Design with Transition (joint with Christopher Sleet)

2. The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Scarring: Evidence from Canada, conditionally accepted by Economic Inquiry (joint with Terry Yip)

3. Preliminary: Labor Market Fluidity, Skill Accumulation and The Insurance Effects from Taxes (joint with German Cubas, Pedro Silos, Terry Yip) 

Publications

1. Technical Change, Wage Inequality and Taxes, The American Economic Review, 105(10) (2015) 3061-3101 (joint with Laurence Ales and Christopher Sleet)

2. Discriminatory Auctions with Resale, Economic Theory Bulletin, 7(2), (2019), 173-189. Online Appendix (joint with Isa Hafalir)

3. Optimal Taxation of Families: Mirrlees meets Becker, The Economic Journal, 131(639), (2021), 2984-3011  Appendix

4. Canadian Income Taxation: Statistical Analysis and Parametric Estimates, Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume 55, No 1, February 2022, (joint  with Terry Yip), (Data Appendix: Tables)

5. Intergenerational Income Mobility and Income Taxation, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 176, July 2025, 10511 (joint with Mehmet Soytas)

6. Tax Design for the Long Run, Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics, Volume 4(1), 1-41 (joint with Martin Michelini, Hakki Ozdenoren, and Christopher Sleet)

Work in Progress

1. Corporate Taxation and the Real Economy: The Impact of 1999 Marmara Earthquake Tax Reform on Firm Dynamics, (joint  with Sevcan Yesiltas)