2017-18 contact information:
Stanford University
SIEPR
366 Galvez Street
Stanford, CA 94305
zucman@berkeley.edu
TEACHING
- Econ 133: Global Inequality and Growth, Spring 2019
- Econ 230B: Graduate Public Economics, Spring 2019
- Econ 231: Public Economics Seminar and Lunch, Spring 2019
OUTREACH
- BOOK: The Hidden Wealth of Nations, University of Chicago Press, September 2015. Second edition (in French), updated and extended: October 2017, Le Seuil.
- WEBSITE: The World Inequality Database (WID.world) (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez). NEW: World Inequality Report 2018, forthcoming Harvard University Press.
- PRESS: Contributions to public policy debates on financial transparency, tax policy, tax havens, and inequality.
RESEARCH
- NEW: The Exorbitant Tax Privilege (with Thomas Wright), preliminary draft, June 2018. [Appendix & data webpage].
- NEW: The Missing Profits of Nations (with Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier), NBER working paper 24701, June 2018. [Appendix & data webpage].
- NEW: Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark (with Katrine Jakobsen, Kristian Jakobsen, and Henrik Kleven), NBER working paper 24371, March 2018, R&R, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- REVISED: Tax Evasion and Inequality (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), NBER working paper 23772, December 2017, R&R American Economic Review. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), Journal of Public Economics, 2018, forthcoming [Appendix & data webpage].
- Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015 (with Thomas Piketty and Li Yang), NBER working paper 23368, June 2017, R&R American Economic Review. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States (with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133(2): 553-609 [Appendix & data webpage].
- Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data (with Emmanuel Saez), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131(2): 519-578 [Appendix & data webpage].
- Taxing Across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28(4): 121-148. [Appendix]. [Data].
- Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010 (with Thomas Piketty), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129(3): 1255-1310. [Appendix & data webpage].
- The End of Bank Secrecy? An Evaluation of the G20 Tax Haven Crackdown (with Niels Johannesen), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(1): 65-91. [Appendix]. [Data].
- The Missing Wealth of Nations, Are Europe and the U.S. net Debtors or net Creditors?, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128(3): 1321-1364. [Appendix]. [Data].
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Association P&P, 2018, 108: 103-108. [Data].
- From Communism to Capitalism: Private vs. Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia (with Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang), American Economic Association P&P, 2018, 108: 109-113. [Data].
- From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016 (with Filip Novokmet and Thomas Piketty), Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, forthcoming. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Review P&P, 2017, 107(5): 404-409. [Longer NBER WP version]. [Data].
- Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines: Concepts and Methods used in WID.world (with Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez), WID.world Working Paper 2016/1, December 2016
- Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run (with Thomas Piketty), Handbook of Income Distribution, vol. 2, 2015. [Data].
- Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation (with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), working paper, 2013.
- Les Hauts Patrimoines Fuient-Ils l’ISF ? Une Estimation sur la Période 1995-2006, Paris School of Economics master thesis, 2008