GABRIEL ZUCMAN Born October 30th, 1986 in Paris, France http://gabriel-zucman.eu
University of California at Berkeley Department of Economics 530 Evans Hall #3880, Berkeley, CA 94720 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 510-643-1625
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015- Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley 2015- Co-director, World Wealth and Income Database: http://wid.world 2014-2016 Assistant Professor of Economics, LSE (on leave 2015-2016) 2013-2014 Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley
AFFILIATIONS
2015- Faculty Research Fellow, NBER 2014- Visiting Senior Fellow, STICERD 2014- Research Affiliate, CEPR 2014- Research Associate, Center for Economic Performance
EDUCATION
2009-2013 PhD in Economics, Paris School of Economics, July 2013. 2008 MSc. “Economic Policy Analysis”, Paris School of Economics. 2005-2010 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
“The Missing Wealth of Nations: Are Europe and the U.S. net Debtors or net Creditors?,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, vol. 128, n°3, p. 1321-1364.
“The End of Bank Secrecy? An Evaluation of the G20 Tax Haven Crackdown,” with Niels JOHANNESEN, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, vol. 6, n°1, p. 65-91.
“Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010,” with Thomas PIKETTY, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, vol. 129, n°3, p. 1255-1310.
“Taxing Across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, vol. 28, n°4, p. 121-148. Reprinted in German in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2015, vol. 41(1), p. 13-48
“Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run”, with Thomas PIKETTY, Handbook of Income Distribution, 2015, Atkinson and Bourguignon (eds), vol. 2B, p. 1303-1368.
“Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data”, with Emmanuel SAEZ, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, vol. 131, n°2, p. 519-578.
“Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States” with Thomas PIKETTY and Emmanuel SAEZ, NBER working paper, December 2016, revise & resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
“Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015” with Thomas PIKETTY and Li YANG, preliminary draft, December 2016.
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world” with Facundo ALVAREDO, Lucas CHANCEL, Thomas PIKETTY, and Emmanuel SAEZ, NBER working paper #23119 (short version forthcoming in American Economic Review P&P, May 2017).
BOOK
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, University of Chicago Press, Fall 2015: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/hidden-wealth/
Other editions: France (Le Seuil), Germany (Suhrkamp), Sweden (Daidalos), Netherlands (Boom), Greece (Pedio), Portugal (Temas e Debates), Slovenia (Zalozba Sophia), Romania (Grup Media Litera), Norway (Forlaget Manifest), Italy (ADD Editore), Spain, Mexico & Colombia (Pasado & Presente), other Latin American countries (Silgo XXI), China (East China Normal University Press), Taiwan (Souler Creative), Korea (L.P. Publishing), Japan (NTT Publishing), Turkey (Yordam).
SHORTER PIECES AND OTHER
“Wealth inequality”, in States of the Union: The Poverty and Inequality Report, Pathways Magazine, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Special Issue Winter 2016, p. 39-44.
“En classe eco” Series of interviews for Mediapart on the state of economics with Camille LANDAIS, 2015: https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/dossier/en-classe-eco
HONORS AND AWARDS
2017 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, Kiel Institute for the World Economy 2014 French Economic Association award for best PhD dissertation 2011 FEEM Award for one of the 3 best papers presented by a young economist at the EEA congress
RESEARCH GRANTS
2017-2019 Norwegian Research Council FRIPRO grant (with A. ALSTADSÆTER and N. JOHANNESEN) 2016-2018 Russell Sage Foundation grant (with E. SAEZ) 2015-2017 IGC State effectiveness grant (with S. BUSTOS and D. POMERANZ) 2015-2018 Arnold Foundation grant (with E. SAEZ AND D. YAGAN) 2015-2017 INET and Sandler Foundation grant (with E. SAEZ) 2015-2016 Weiss Family Program Fund (with S. BUSTOS and D. POMERANZ) 2012 Franco-Danish Scientific Cooperation grant (with N. JOHANNESEN)
TEACHING
Berkeley, 2016- ECON133 (undergraduate): Global inequality and growth (2016-) http://gabriel-zucman.eu/econ133/ ECON230 (graduate): Public economics (2017-) http://gabriel-zucman.eu/econ230/
LSE, 2014-15 EC303 (undergraduate): Economic policy analysis EC404 (master): Microeconomics EC534 (PhD): Public Economics EC351 (summer school): International macroeconomics EC270 (summer school): Public Finance
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Referee for: American Economic Journal: Applied, American Economic Journal: Macro, American Economic Journal: Policy, American Economic Review, Annals of Economics and Statistics, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economica, Economics of Transition, Harvard University Press, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic History, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Princeton University Press, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, Science, Social Choice and Welfare, Yale University Press.
2007-2013: Founding member and Editor-in-chief of Regards croisés sur l’économie, a review aimed at bridging the gap between academic research in economics and the French general public.
SEMINARS & CONFERENCES
2016: AEA, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford, USC, Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, Bonn, OECD, Sciences Po, LSE, Bank of France, NBER Summer Institute, IIPF Congress, Berkeley Sociology, Federal Reserve Board, NYU Law, Berkeley Law, Brown, Harvard, CUNY wealth workshop.
2015: AEA, Chicago, Norwegian Tax Administration, AK Wien, Berkeley, UCLA, Caltech All UC Conference, MIT, Stockholm, Princeton JRCPPF, Adres, Bank of England, European Commission, Princeton, Uppsala, Warwick, U. Michigan wealth inequality conference, NYU, Notre Dame tax haven conference, NBER Summer Institute, BEA, Berkeley.
2014: Trinity College Dublin, Stanford, Caltech, UCSD, Federal Reserve Board, US Treasury, Inter-American Development Bank, Minneapolis Fed, Chicago, Chicago Booth, Princeton, Harvard, Michigan, Berkeley, Berkeley Law, UCLA, International Economic Association, San Francisco Fed, Econometric Society, NBER Summer Institute, Bank for International Settlements, Mannheim, Center for Global Development, Bank of England, LSE/UCL, OECD, European Commission, Oslo.
2013: Berkeley, Stanford SIEPR, Chicago Booth, Montreal, LSE, Maryland, LBS, Copenhagen, NBER Summer Institute, Santa Clara, Reed College, Columbia, Aix- Marseille, ECB, Zurich.
2012: NBER, Geneva Graduate Institute, Days Louis-Andre Gerard Varet, Swiss National Bank, CEPR, Oxford, Warwick.
2011: Harvard, NYU, CEPR, IEA Word Congress, IMF, EEA, Copenhagen, AFSE.
February 2017