Gabriel Zucman

UC Berkeley
Department of Economics
530 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720
zucman@berkeley.edu

CV & RESEARCH OVERVIEW

TEACHING

• Econ 133: Global Inequality and Growth, Spring 2019
• Econ 230B: Graduate Public Economics, Spring 2020
• Econ 231: Public Economics Seminar, Spring 2020

BOOKS

• NEW: The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (with Emmanuel Saez), WW Norton, October 2019. [Tax policy simulator]. [Slides]. [Data & Appendix].

• The Hidden Wealth of Nations, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Second edition updated and extended, 2017, Le Seuil.

• World Inequality Report 2018 (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez), Harvard University Press. See World Inequality Database (WID.world)

PAPERS

• NEW: Progressive Wealth Taxation (with Emmanuel Saez), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2019, forthcoming.

• REVISED: The Missing Profits of Nations (with Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier), NBER working paper 24701, revised January 2020. See MissingProfits.world [Appendix & data webpage].

• Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark (with Katrine Jakobsen, Kristian Jakobsen, and Henrik Kleven), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, vol. 135(1): 329-388.

• The Exorbitant Tax Privilege (with Thomas Wright), NBER working paper 24983, September 2018. [Appendix & data webpage].

• Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), working paper, August 2018.

• Global Wealth Inequality, Annual Review of Economics, 2019, vol. 11: 109-138. [Data].

• Tax Evasion and Inequality (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), American Economic Review, 2019, 109(6): 2073-2103. [Appendix & data webpage].

• Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015 (with Thomas Piketty and Li Yang), American Economic Review, 2019, 109(7): 2469-2496. [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, 162: 89-100. [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

• Economics After Neoliberalism: Introducing the EfIP Project (with Suresh Naidu and Dani Rodrik), American Economic Association P&P, 2020, vol. 110, forthcoming.

• How Would a Progressive Wealth Tax Work? Evidence from the Economics Literature (with Emmanuel Saez), February 2019. See  scoring of Sen. Warren’s wealth tax proposal. Scoring of Sen. Sanders’s wealth tax proposal. Response to Summers and Sarin.

• Simplified Distributional National Accounts (with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Association P&P, 2019, vol. 109, p. 289-295.

• Challenges of Monitoring Tax Compliance by Multinational Firms: Evidence from Chile (with Sebastian Bustos, Dina Pomeranz, José Vila-Belda), American Economic Association P&P, 2019, vol. 109, p. 500-505.

• 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, vol. 16, n°2, p. 189-223 (special issue in honor of Tony Atkinson). [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.

• Three Essays on the World Distribution of Wealth, PhD dissertation, Paris School of Economics and EHESS, 2013.

• Les Hauts Patrimoines Fuient-Ils l’ISF ? Une Estimation sur la Période 1995-2006, Paris School of Economics master thesis, 2008.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLICY DEBATES

• Press articles on tax policy and inequality.