Mission 1
To conduct and disseminate cutting-edge innovative research on taxation, with a focus on tax evasion and fraud, and potential solutions to these problems.
About us
The EU Tax Observatory is an independent research laboratory hosted at the Paris School of Economics. It conducts innovative research on taxation, contributes to a democratic and inclusive debate on the future of taxation, and fosters a dialogue between the scientific community, civil society, and policymakers in the European Union and worldwide.
Missions
The EU Tax Observatory aims to contribute to the development of knowledge and the emergence of new concrete proposals to address the tax and inequality challenges of the 21st century.
Mission 2
To promote a democratic, inclusive, and pluralistic debate on the future of taxation by fostering dialogue between the scientific community, civil society, and policymakers in the European Union and worldwide.
Mission 3
To provide access to knowledge on taxation by making available to the general public a repository of data and analysis on our study topics, as well as interactive tools that allow them to easily understand and exploit them.
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2021/2022
Meet our team
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Giulia Aliprandi
Postdoctoral scholar
Miguel Almunia
Research Fellow
Annette Alstadsæter
Program Director Norad
Stefan Bach
Research Fellow
Pierre Bachas
Senior Economist
Sofía Balladares
Research Assistant
Mona Barake
Postdoctoral scholar
Charlotte Bartels
Research Fellow
Enea Baselgia
Research Fellow
Dominik Bernhofer
Research Fellow
Katarzyna Bilicka
Jeanne Bomare
PhD candidate
Kane Borders
Junior Researcher
Vincent Bouvatier
Research Fellow
Anne Brockmeyer
Julie Brun Bjørkheim
Thijs Busschots
Research Assistant
Gunther Capelle Blancard
Research Fellow
Elisa Casi-Eberhard
Research Fellow
Lucas Chancel
Senior Advisor
Paul-Emmanuel Chouc
Research Assistant
Matt Collin
Senior Economist
Rasmus Corlin Christensen
Research Fellow
Ronald B. Davies
Lauren Debussy
Administrative Assistant
Anne-Laure Delatte
Research Fellow
Roel Dom
Evgeniya Dubinina
Visiting PhD
Jules Ducept
Research Assistant
Joachim Englisch
Research Fellow
Tommaso Faccio
Research Fellow
Souleymane Faye
Research Assistant
Hjalte Fejerskov Boas
Visiting PhD
Alessandro Ferrari
Eloi Flamant
Research Assistant
Manon François
Researcher
Francisco Gabriel
Data Scientist
Carlo Garbarino
Research Fellow
Bertrand Garbinti
Research Fellow
Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Pietro Geuna
Research Assistant
Idann Gidron
Atlas Data Coordinator
Sarah Godar
Researcher
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Research Fellow
Laure Heidmann
Visiting PhD Candidate
Friederike Jaich
Communications Officer
Petr Jansky
Associate Professor of Economics, Charles University
Maximo Jaramilo
Research Fellow
Niels Johannesen
Co-director
Michael Keen
Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund
Evangelos Koumanakos
Sébastien Laffitte
Senior Researcher
Camille Landais
Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Lauge Larsen
Ph.D. Student
Ségal Le Guern Herry
Elvin Le Pouhaër
Research Assistant
Samira Marti
Julien Martin
Clara Martinez-Toledano
Research Fellow
Isabel Z. Martínez
Alice Mazzacurati
Research Assistant
Anne Michel
Journalist, Le Monde
Jakob Miethe
Visiting
Karan Mishra
Research Assistant
Xabier Moriana
Research Assistant
Mathilde Muñoz
Research Fellow
Theresa Neef
Researcher
Panayiotis Nicolaides
Research Director
Delphine Nougayrède
Lawyer, Lecturer at Columbia Law School (2015-2021)
Martijn Nouwen
Research Fellow
Carlos Oliveira
Research Assistant
Miroslav Palansky
Research Fellow
Francesco Pappadà
Research Fellow
Mathieu Parenti
Senior Researcher
Quentin Parrinello
Senior Policy Advisor
Thomas Piketty
Bluebery Planterose
Phd candidate
Dina Pomeranz
Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Steffen Redeker
Research Assistant
Gaspard Richard
Olivia Ronsain
Communications & Outreach Director
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Florian Scheuer
Research Fellow
Johannes Scheuerer
David Seim
Research Fellow
Camille Semelet
Laurent Simula
Research Fellow
Barbara Stage
Research Fellow
Léo Tamayo
Secretary General
Katia Toledo Ruiz
Dario Tortarolo
Farid Toubal
Vincent Vicard
Research Fellow
Ludvig Wier
Gerrit von Zedlitz
Gabriel Zucman
Director
Andreas Økland
Giulia Aliprandi
Postdoctoral scholar
Giulia Aliprandi is a post-doctoral researcher at the EU Tax Observatory. Previously, Giulia worked as an economist at the OECD in the Business and International Taxes unit, with a leading role in the publication and development of Country-by-Country Report statistics. She holds a PhD from the Paris School of Economics where she developed her research on tax evasion and tax avoidance.
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Miguel Almunia is an Associate Professor of Economics at CUNEF Universidad. Previously, he worked at the University of Warwick. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. He is a Research Affiliate/Fellow at CAGE, CEPR, IFS, IGC and Oxford CBT, and Invited Researcher at J-PAL Europe.
He is an applied microeconomist and his main field of research is empirical public finance. The broad question guiding his research agenda is how economic agents — households and firms — respond to government policies, namely taxes and regulations.
Annette Alstadsæter
Program Director Norad
Annette Alstadsæter is Professor at School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and head of SKATTEFORSK – Center for Tax Research. Her research is on tax evasion, tax avoidance, and inequality, and she has published in top academic journals in addition to being highly involved in the public debate and policy work. She is columnist in DN and member of both the Norwegian and Swedish Fiscal Policy Councils.
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Stefan Bach
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Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin and lecturer at Potsdam University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne and wrote his professorial dissertation thesis on the distribution of tax burdens and tax reform policy in Germany. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, microsimulation, distribution of income and wealth. He managed numerous studies on taxation and public finance issues and is engaged in policy advice by regular expert statements, presentations, and media appearances. In recent years, he made studies on the distribution of the tax burden, wealth taxation, tax reform, pension reform, and environmental taxation.
Pierre Bachas
Senior Economist
Sofía Balladares
Research Assistant
Sofía Balladares works as a research assistant at the EU Tax Observatory. She holds master’s degrees from University Carlos III of Madrid and Lund University in Sweden. She has previously worked as a research assistant at these universities, studying the dynamics between the evolution of taxation in Europe and the US and its effects on inequality.
Mona Barake
Postdoctoral scholar
Mona Barake is a post-doctoral researcher at the EU Tax Observatory and plays a leading role in exploiting the country–by-country data that are becoming available for a growing number of sectors and countries globally. She has just completed her PhD at the university of Paris I. Her research is devoted to tax havens and tax avoidance. In her thesis, Mona has conducted pioneering work using newly available data on the country–by-country accounts of European banks to estimate how much profits these banks shift to tax havens.
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Charlotte Bartels
Research Fellow
Charlotte Bartels is a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). She received her Ph.D. in economics (summa cum laude) for her thesis „Insurance and Redistribution in the German welfare state“ from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. In 2020, she was Visiting Associate Professor at City University New York (CUNY). For the academic year 2021/2022, she is Kennedy fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS).
Her research interests lie in the fields of empirical public and labor economics. She is particularly concerned with the distribution of income and wealth both current and in historical perspective and the redistributive and stabilizing impact of tax-benefit systems and their effect on labor market behavior.
Enea Baselgia
Research Fellow
Enea Baselgia is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of St. Gallen. He works and teaches at the Chair of Prof. Föllmi at the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research. He is a Research Fellow of the World Inequality Database (WID.world) and a research fellow at the EU Tax Observatory at the Paris School of Economics. His research interests include the distribution of income and wealth, public economics, and in particular the study of how people respond to taxes.
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Jeanne Bomare
PhD candidate
Jeanne Bomare is a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics. Her research focuses on international taxation, tax havens and public policy. She is particularly interested in evaluating the impact of tax policies on individual and corporate tax compliance. Jeanne was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics in 2021-2022, and at UC Berkeley in 2023.
Kane Borders
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Vincent Bouvatier
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Thijs Busschots
Research Assistant
Thijs Busschots is a research assistant at the EU Tax Observatory. Previously, he worked as an editor at ESB, the Dutch professional journal for economists. Thijs holds a master’s degree in Finance and Investments and a master’s degree in Policy Economic from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His master’s thesis studies the behavioural response to wealth taxes in the Netherlands.
Gunther Capelle Blancard
Research Fellow
Gunther Capelle-Blancard is Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Previously, he was deputy dean of the Sorbonne School of Economics, scientific advisor to the French Council of Economic Analysis (an independent, non-partisan advisory body), deputy director of CEPII (a research center in international economics), and member of the scientific council of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
His research interests include financial markets, financial regulation, financial transaction taxation, tax havens, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals including The Review of Finance, The Journal of Banking & Finance, The Journal of Business Ethics, or The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Elisa Casi-Eberhard
Research Fellow
Elisa Casi-Eberhard is an Assistant Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). She received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2020 and she has been visiting scholar at the Questrom School of Business (Boston University) in 2019. Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of corporate disclosure and how tax policies affect individual and corporate tax compliance.
Paul-Emmanuel Chouc is a research assistant at the EU Tax Observatory, after completing the first year of the Master in Economics of Institut Polytechnique de Paris. With an initial background in business and management, he has previously worked in a health insurance start-up and an investment bank. He is also part of a “data for good” association, which aims at providing French firemen with an automated wildfire detection system.
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Matt Collin
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Matt Collin is a Senior Researcher at the EU Tax Observatory, where he conducts empirical research on illicit financial flows (cross-border tax evasion, money-laundering, and related activity). He was previously an Economist in the World Bank’s Global Tax Team, a Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He earned his DPhil (PhD) in Economics at the University of Oxford in 2013. His published work includes publications in the Journal of Development Economics and Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Rasmus Corlin Christensen
Research Fellow
Rasmus Corlin Christensen is a political economist and postdoc at Copenhagen Business School. He studies the political economy of international taxation and accounting, of expertise and professionals, and the interplay between them. He is currently involved in a four-year grant, “Time Mirror”, studying tax and financial infrastructures for the green transition.
Lauren Debussy
Administrative Assistant
Lauren Debussy is the EU Tax Observatory’s Administrative Assistant. She is in charge of ensuring that everything runs as smoothly as possible in our day-to-day operations. Lauren has more than 10 years of experience in education and support roles in the United States, Japan, and France.
Anne-Laure Delatte
Research Fellow
Anne-Laure Delatte is a CNRS Tenured Researcher in the Econ Department of Paris Dauphine University and a CEPR Research Affiliate. She is the chair of the Financial Markets Commission of the CNIS, an independent body bringing together producers and users of the French public Statistics. She has been a member of Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Analysis), an independent advisory body reporting to the French Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. Her research aims to document the evolution of contemporary international finance and the ways in which it interacts with the public sphere (central banks and governments).
Evgeniya Dubinina
Visiting PhD
Evgeniya is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IES FSV UK) in Prague, Czech Republic. Her focus is on taxation, international corporate tax avoidance, and public, international and development economics.
Jules Ducept
Research Assistant
Jules Ducept is a research assistant at the EU Tax Observatory. Jules is also a graduate student in economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and at the University of Paris-Saclay. He is also a member of the research team at the Center for Economics at Paris-Saclay (CEPS). He will do a predoc year at UC Berkeley in 2023, under the supervision of Assistant Prof Mathilde Muñoz.
Joachim Englisch
Research Fellow
Dr Englisch holds a chair for tax law and public law at Münster University. Currently, his main research activities are devoted to International and European tax law and policy, covering both, direct and indirect taxation. Dr Englisch has frequently advised international organisations, the EU Commission, national governments, NGOs and other stakeholders in taxation matters. He has also been a visiting professor at several European and overseas universities.
Tommaso Faccio
Research Fellow
Souleymane Faye is a Research Assistant at the EU Tax Observatory as part of a gap year in his studies. He holds a BA in Economics and Finance from Aix Marseille School of Economics, and is a master’s student in economics at Paris Dauphine-PSL. Souleymane previously worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Bertrand Garbinti at CREST (École Polytechnique de Paris and ENSAE), and for Prof. Élise Huillery at LIEPP (Sciences Po).
Hjalte Fejerskov Boas
Visiting PhD
Hjalte Fejerskov Boas is a second-year PhD student at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and a resident PhD student at the Danish Ministry of Taxation. His research revolves around international tax evasion, optimal taxation, and public economics. He is currently visiting Paris School of Economics and the EU Tax Observatory.
Eloi Flamant is working on a key mission of the Observatory: tracking the special tax schemes that exist in EU member states and that fuel tax competition (such as reduced rates for wealthy individuals, athletes, retirees, etc) as well as corporate tax competition. He is a master student at the Paris School of Economics and Ecole normale supérieure, with a passion for public economics and economic history.
Manon François
Researcher
Manon Francois is a researcher at the EU Tax Observatory and a PhD student at the Paris School of Economics. Her work focuses on corporate tax avoidance, investigating channels through which firms avoid taxes and potential tax reforms.
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Combined program Ph.D. (Law), University of Genoa, Italy and Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School, 1987-1989 under a Rotary Foundation Scholarship, LL.M., University of Michigan Law School, 1986. Carlo Garbarino is Professor of Law, Bocconi University Milan. Senior Emily Noel Fellow, NYU Law School, 2016-17; Hauser Global Visiting Faculty, NYU Law School, 2013-14. He has been Grotius Research Scholar, University of Michigan, Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School, and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Levin College of Law of the University of Florida, Faculdade de Direito Universidade de São Paulo, Sorbonne Université. He teaches regularly at the Master of tax law, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.
Bertrand Garbinti
Research Fellow
Bertrand Garbinti is an Assistant Professor at CREST-ENSAE-Institut Polytechnique Paris. He holds his PhD from the Paris School of Economics, and his Accreditation to supervise research (HDR) from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. His research focuses on Public Economics, Economics of Inequality, and Economics of the Family.
Pietro Geuna
Research Assistant
Idann Gidron is the data coordinator for Atlas of the Offshore World project at the EU Tax Observatory. He has previously worked at the OECD in the Business and International Tax unit, where he was responsible for the calculation of forward-looking corporate effective tax rates, among other projects. Idann holds a master’s degree in policy economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His master’s thesis develops a new tax policy indicator that captures the joint impact of corporate and environmental taxes on business investment incentives.
Sarah Godar is a researcher at the EU Tax Observatory. She works on developing a research and data repository for the EU Tax Observatory website—a public good for the community of researchers, journalists, policymakers, etc. active on these issues. She holds a PhD in economics from the Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on corporate tax avoidance and tax competition.
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Jonathan Goupille-Lebret is a CNRS Research Associate Professor at ENS de Lyon. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on the long-term evolution of income and wealth inequality as well as the impact of taxation on economic behaviors.
Laure Heidmann
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Friederike Jaich is the Observatory’s Communications Officer. She is organizing our public events and is responsible for the overall communication tasks. She has a master’s degree in Cognition and Communication from the University of Copenhagen. Friederike previously worked in the area of intercultural exchange in the Philippines and as a freelance writer for the NGO Freemuse in Denmark.
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Camille Landais
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Karan Mishra works as a research assistant at the EU Tax Observatory. He holds a master’s degree from Paris School of Economics and was a research assistant at the CNRS. He is broadly interested in the questions at the intersection of public economics, political economy, and macroeconomics.
Xabier Moriana
Research Assistant
Xabier holds a double Master’s degree from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Lund University, where he previously worked as a Research Assistant. He is mainly interested in taxation, public policies and microeconometrics. These interests converged in his master thesis where he proposes a new micro-level dynamic method to measure the effect of inflation on the redistributive capacity of the personal income tax
Mathilde Muñoz
Research Fellow
Mathilde Muñoz will join Berkeley’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023, after spending the 2022-2023 academic year as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Stone Center. Mathilde works on topics in public economics and international trade, with a particular interest for the distributional effects of globalization and international tax competition.
Theresa Neef
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Theresa Neef is a researcher at the EU Tax Observatory. With her expertise on inequality, Theresa plays a leading role in conducting research linking tax avoidance and the dynamics of income and wealth concentration, a core research topic of the EU Tax Observatory. She is currently finishing her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin. Theresa also serves as Eastern Europe and Russia coordinator of the World Inequality Database at the Paris School of Economics, the most extensive database for inequality statistics globally.
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Panayiotis Nicolaides
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Martijn Nouwen
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Martijn Nouwen is a fulltime Assistant Professor in Tax Law at Leiden Law School. His research and teaching focusses on international and European tax law, with an emphasis on harmful tax policy competition between countries. In 2020, he obtained his PhD for his dissertation ‘Inside the EU Code of Conduct Group: 20 Years of tackling harmful tax competition’.
Carlos Oliveira
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Carlos Oliveira works as a research assistant at the EU Tax Observatory. He holds a master’s degree from Nova School of Business and Economics, where he has done research on wage inequality, labour market institutions, and political economy.
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Miroslav Palansky
Research Fellow
Miroslav Palanský is a research fellow with the CORPTAX group at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, and a data scientist at the Tax Justice Network. Through his research, he aims to help in the ongoing fight against corruption, tax abuse and financial secrecy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Charles University and a Master’s in Econometrics from Aix-Marseille University.
Francesco Pappadà
Research Fellow
Francesco Pappadà is an Invited Professor at the Paris School of Economics (on leave from Banque de France) since October 2019. He has previously been a Senior Research Economist at Banque de France, and held post-doctoral and visiting positions at HEC Lausanne, University of California Berkeley and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. His research interests are in macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in September 2011.
Mathieu Parenti
Senior Researcher
Mathieu Parenti is a Professor at the Paris School of Economics, a Research Fellow at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and CESifo. He has received his PhD from the Paris School of Economics (Université Paris 1) in 2012. He is Associate Editor at the Economic Journal. His fields of research are International Trade and International Corporate Taxation. He has published in leading journals such as Econometrica, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Economic Theory. His recent papers focus on trade agreements as well as tax optimization strategies by multinational firms.
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Quentin Parrinello is our Senior Policy Advisor. He is responsible for promoting the work of the Observatory with policymakers, the media, and other stakeholders as well as building policy recommendations. Quentin has an extensive experience working on tax policy and campaign. In 2020, he was appointed among the 35 leaders of the future on taxation by TaxCoop.
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Bluebery Planterose
Phd candidate
Bluebery Planterose works on a joint research project with Gabriel Zucman and Annette Alstadsæter analyzing the ownership of real estate in a prominent tax haven using leaked data. He holds a dual master’s degree in economics and public policy from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po. At LSE, he wrote his master’s thesis on optimal carbon and wealth taxation, two key policy issues for the 21st century.
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Dina Pomeranz
Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Florian Scheuer
Research Fellow
Florian Scheuer is the UBS Professor of Economics of Institutions at the University of Zurich and Vice Chairman of the Department of Economics. He was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.
Professor Scheuer’s research connects the fields of public finance, economic theory, macroeconomics, and political economy. In particular, he has studied how rising inequality affects various aspects of optimal tax policy and vice versa. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies, among other journals.
Florian Scheuer is a Co-Editor of Theoretical Economics and an Editorial Board Member of the Review of Economic Studies. He is a Co-Director of the Working Group on Macro Public Finance (MPF) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and the Center for Economic Studies/ifo Institute (CESifo) in Munich. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project “Inequality: Public Policy and Political Economy” in 2017 and the Hermann Heinrich Gossen Prize for the best economist under the age of 45 in German-speaking countries in 2021.
David Seim
Research Fellow
David Seim is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University. He was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Toronto, a Visiting Professor at Brown University and at UC Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.
Seim’s research spans the fields of public finance, labor economics, and political economy. In particular, he has studied the determinants of inequality. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies, among other journals.
Professor Seim is a co-Editor of the Journal of Public Finance. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, the Center for Economic Studies/ifo Institute (CESifo) and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Laurent Simula
Research Fellow
Laurent Simula is the Chairman of the Department of Economics at ENS de Lyon, where he holds a Full professorship. He is also an Associate Editor of the academic journal International Tax and Public Finance, a senior fellow of the CESifo research network, a member of the scientific council of the Journées de l’économie, an event promoting the diffusion of academic knowledge, and a member of the scientific council of the Alliance Athena.
His main research areas are applied micro and public economics, with a special focus on how to design redistributive policies to fight income and wealth inequalities in a world where rich households and firms can threaten to vote with their feet. His work has been published in academic journals, among which the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and the Journal of Public Economics.
Barbara Stage
Research Fellow
Barbara Stage is Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting and Business Taxation at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany. Her empirical research focuses on the impact of taxes on firms and individuals. Currently, she is studying the effectiveness of transparency regimes to combat tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning. A further project deals with the effectiveness of automatic exchange of information agreements in tax matters. She is also interested in the impact of digitalization on corporate tax avoidance and the effect of tax regulations on investment.
Barbara obtained a Bachelor (BA)’s degree in Philosophy & Economics from University of Bayreuth (Germany), and later received a Master of Science (MSc)’s degree in Business Administration from University of Mannheim (Germany). She received a Ph.D. in Taxation from the University of Mannheim (Germany) in 2021.
Léo Tamayo
Secretary General
Léo Tamayo is our Partnership Director. He manages the grant we received from the EU Commission, secures new funding for the Observatory, and works with the various teams (contracts, finances, IT, etc.) within the Paris School of Economics. Léo has extensive experience managing complex EU contracts and knows the Paris School of Economics inside out.
Farid Toubal
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Vincent Vicard
Research Fellow
Vincent Vicard is the Deputy Director of CEPII and the Head of the international trade scientific programme. He has previously held positions as senior researcher at Banque de France, postdoc at Paris School of Economics and economist at the French Embassy in Poland. His current research focuses on the organisation and taxation of multinational companies, European integration, French competitiveness and the geo-economic dimensions of globalisation. His academic work has been published in leading international journals (Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, IMF Economic Review). He is also a regular contributor to the French media (Alternatives Economiques, Le Monde, The Conversation, La Croix…)
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Gabriel Zucman
Director
Gabriel Zucman is the director of the EU Tax Observatory. He is the author of articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and of two books. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macro-distributional implications of globalization.
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