Unpublished papers / work in progress
Capital & wealth taxation
- Optimal Housing Taxation with Land Scarcity and Maintenance: A Mirrleesian Perspective (with S. Blomquist, F. Gahvari, L. Micheletto and K. Tayibov) European Economic Review 178, 105078 (2025)
- AI, Automation and Taxation (with D. Waldenström) Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition: Promoting Resilience in a World in Flux, edited by Stefano Scarpetta and Stéphane Carcillo, Edward Elgar (2024) [book] [IZA Newsroom] [VoxEU]
- Taxing the Wealthy: The Choice Between Wealth and Capital Income Taxation (with D. Waldenström) Oxford Review of Economic Policy 39(3): 604–616 (2023) [Part of the issue Taxing the rich (more), eds. İrem Güçeri and Joel Slemrod] [VoxEU summary]
- Wealth and Inheritance Taxation: Theory and Evidence from the Nordic Countries (with D. Waldenström) in S. Cnossen and B. Jacobs (eds.), Tax by Design for the Netherlands, Oxford University Press (2021) [pdf] [book]
- Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation [pdf] (with D. Waldenström) Economica 88(350): 532–569 (2021) [Open Access] Media: Washington Post
- How Should Capital Be Taxed? [pdf] (with D. Waldenström) Journal of Economic Surveys 34(4): 812–846 (2020) [Open Access] Media: VoxEU, The Economist, Bloomberg
- The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation (with S. Blomquist and L. Micheletto) International Economic Review 54(4): 1219–1249 (2013) [pdf]
Empirical tax studies
- The Marginal Value of Public Funds: A Brief Guide and Application to Tax Policy International Tax and Public Finance 32: 919–956 (2025)
- The Ability Gradient in Tax Responsiveness [pdf] (with D. Waldenström) Journal of Public Economics Plus 2, 100007 (2021) [Open Access] Media: VoxEU, FAZ
- The Anatomy of the Extensive Margin Labor Supply Response (with H. Selin and Y. Moberg) [pdf] Scandinavian Journal of Economics 123(1): 33–59 (2021) [Open Access] [Online appendix showing how to account for endogenous transfer take-up when interpreting extensive margin labor supply elasticities]
- Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior (with T. Giebe and C. Miao) [pdf] Journal of Urban Economics 116, 103215 (2020) [Open Access]
- Political Preferences for Redistribution in Sweden (with J. Lundberg) Journal of Economic Inequality 15(4): 345–367 (2017) [pdf] [Open Access]
- Bunching and Non-Bunching at Kink Points of the Swedish Tax Schedule (with H. Selin) Journal of Public Economics 109: 36–49 (2014) [pdf]
Consumption taxation and public provision of private goods
Taxation and regulation with asymmetric information between workers and firms
- Optimal Redistribution and Education Signaling (with T. Blumkin and L. Micheletto) International Economic Review 66(3): 1239–1265 (2025)
- The Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Mandates (with T. Blumkin and L. Micheletto) [pdf] Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 35(1): 77–126 (2019) [Open Access]
- Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market (with T. Blumkin and L. Micheletto) Journal of Public Economics 131: 41–57 (2015) [pdf]
Contest theory / personnel economics
Labor markets
- Redistribution and Labor Market Inclusion (with T. Aronsson and K. Tayibov) Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2026)
- Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment [pdf] (with L. Aldén and M. Hammarstedt) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 83(6): 1287–1310 (2021) [Lead article] [Open Access]
- Immigrant-Native Differences in Long-Term Self-Employment [pdf] (with L. Aldén, M. Hammarstedt and C. Miao) Small Business Economics 58: 1661–1697 (2022)
Theoretical tax studies
- Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Education in the Presence of Income-Misreporting [pdf] (with F. Gahvari and L. Micheletto) Journal of Public Economic Theory 25(4): 679–726 (2023) [Open Access]
- Nonlinear and Piece-Wise Linear Income Taxation and the Subsidization of Work-Related Goods (with S. Blomquist and L. Micheletto) [pdf] International Tax and Public Finance 26(4): 806–834 (2019) [Open Access]
- Using the Discrete Model to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 71(1): 106–117 (2015) [pdf]
- Gender-Based and Couple-Based Taxation International Tax and Public Finance 20(4): 653–686 (2013) [pdf]
- Evaluer les limites à la redistribution : approches partielles ou approche globale? (with L. Simula) Économie et Statistique n°467–468 (2014) [pdf]
- Pareto Efficient Income Taxation without Single-Crossing (with S. Blomquist and L. Micheletto) [pdf] Social Choice and Welfare 55: 547–594 (2020) [Open Access]
- Public Pensions in a Multi-Period Mirrleesian Income Tax Model (with S. Blomquist and L. Micheletto) in Robert Holzmann and John Piggott (eds.), The Taxation of Pensions, The MIT Press (2018) [link]
Tax policy (mostly in Swedish)
- AI, ekonomin och skattepolitikens framtid (with D. Waldenström) Ekonomisk Debatt 52(5), 2024 [link]
- Perspektiv på konsumtionsbeskattning, IFAU rapport 2022:10 [link]
- Hur bör konsumtion beskattas? SNS Förlag, 2021 [link]
- Vad styr svenskarnas attityder till skatter? (with D. Waldenström) Ekonomisk Debatt 47(4), 2019 [link]
- Skillnad på marginalen – en ESO-rapport om reformerad inkomstbeskattning (with H. Selin) [link] [summary in English]
- Kapitalbeskattningens förutsättningar i Sverige (with D. Waldenström and Å. Hansson) Ekonomisk Debatt 46(2), 2018 [pdf]
- Kapitalbeskattningens förutsättningar, SNS Konjunkturrådsrapport 2018, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 2018 (with D. Waldenström and Å. Hansson) [pdf]
- Gender Wage Gap and the Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Rules (with T. Blumkin and L. Micheletto) ifo DICE Report 15(2): 3–7 (2017) [pdf]
- Välfärdsekonomi ur svenskt perspektiv Ekonomisk Debatt 42(4), 2014
- Makten över Skatten – optimal beskattning med ett globalt perspektiv Sysselsättning och Tillväxt i Europa, Global Utmaning (2014) [pdf]
- Finns det en anhopning av skattebetalare vid brytpunkten för statlig inkomstskatt? (with H. Selin) Ekonomisk Debatt 40(1), 2012 [pdf]
- Vad är Optimal Beskattning? (with T. Aronsson and S. Blomquist) Framtider nr 3, 2010, Institute for Future Studies