Gabriel Zucman is associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the EU Tax Observatory.
He is the author of articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review as well as 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. In a series of papers and in his book The Hidden Wealth of Nations, he has developed methods to measure the wealth held in tax havens and to quantify the redistributive effects of international tax competition.
With members of the World Inequality Lab he has developed prototype distributional national accounts. In 2019, he was awarded the Bernacer Prize and a Sloan Research Fellowship. He received the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2017, and the Best Young French Economist Prize awarded by Le Monde and le Cercle des économistes in 2018.
His project, “Towards Real-Time Distributional Economic Accounts,” aims to create new statistics — real-time distributional national accounts — providing timely and comprehensive information on the evolution of U.S. income inequality. These statistics will report monthly and quarterly income growth for each group of the population (from the bottom deciles up to billionaires) consistent with official GDP growth.
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