Research

Working Papers

• From Local Land Economy to Global Capital Economy: The Transformation of Wealth in the Republic of Ireland (with Pierce Daly). Forthcoming.

• More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception (with Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores). Political Economy Working Papers 6/2022, Department of History, Economics and Society, University of Geneva.

• The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes (with Facundo Alvaredo, Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores). Political Economy Working Papers 2/2022, Department of History, Economics and Society, University of Geneva.

Work in Progress

• Capital in Ireland since 1850 (with Pierce Daly and Ronan Lyons).

• Distribution, late-development and institutional change in Brazil (with Pedro Souza).

Journal Articles

• Growth, income and wealth accumulation in rich countries. Economiaz, 2022, 101 (1): 200-221.

• Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC (with Rafael Carranza and Brian Nolan). The Review of Income and Wealth (Online version April 2022).

  • Appendix.

  • Working papers: University of Geneva Political Economy Working Papers No. 6/2021. World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/17. INET Oxford Working Paper No. 2021-16.

  • VoxEU column.

• The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data (with Thomas Blanchet and Ignacio Flores). The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20 (1): 119-150.

  • Program webpage.

• Taxing Wealth: General Principles, International Perspectives and Lessons for Brazil (with Pedro Carvalho Junior). Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 41 (1): 44-64.

• Extreme Inequality: Evidence from Brazil, India, the Middle East, and South Africa (with Lydia Assouad and Lucas Chancel). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108: 119-23.

Book Chapters

• Does Democratization Cause Redistribution? Evidence from Sweden and Brazil (with Erik Bengtsson). In Scandinavia and South America—A Tale of Two Capitalisms. Essays on Comparative Developments in Trade, Industrialisation and Inequality since 1850, edited by J. Álvarez and S. Prado. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.

  • Working paper.

• Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018 (with Amory Gethin). In Political Cleavages, Party Systems and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020, edited by A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano and T. Piketty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021.

  • Working paper.

  • Data appendix.

• Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020 (with Luis Bauluz, Amory Gethin, and Clara Martínez-Toledano). In Political Cleavages, Party Systems and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020, edited by A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano and T. Piketty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021.

  • Working paper.

  • Data appendix.

• Perspectivas sobre a reforma fiscal no Brasil. In A Reforma Tributária Necessária – Menos Desigualdade: Proposta de Novo Desenho da Tributação Brasileira, edited by E. Fagnani. São Paulo: ANFIP, FENAFISCO, 2018 .

  • Working paper.

• Desigualdade de Renda, Crescimento e Tributação da Elite no Brasil: Novas Evidências Reunindo Dados de Pesquisas Domiciliares e Dados Fiscais. In Tributação e Desigualdade, edited by J. R. Afonso, M. R. Lukic, R. O. Orair and F. G. Silveira. Rio de Janeiro: Letramento & FGV Direito Rio, 2017.

• Capital, Nationality, and State Sovereignty: New Links for the 21st Century. In Capital and Justice, edited by G. P. Lima and M. A. Madi. World Economics Association (WEA) Books, College Publications, 2017.

Methodological Publications

• Desigualdad del ingreso en la República Dominicana 2012-2019: una revisión a partir de la combinación de fuentes de datos (with Facundo Alvaredo, Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores). Documentos de Proyectos (LC/TS.2022/75), Santiago, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2022.

• 2020 Distributional National Accounts Update for Europe (with Theresa Neef). World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/04.

• Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts (with Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores). World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/02.

• Distributional National Accounts Guidelines: Methods and Concepts used in WID.world (with fellow wid.world coordinators and co-directors), September 2020.

Research Briefs

• Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts (with Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores). World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/09.

• What’s New About Income Inequality in Europe (1980-2019)? (with Theresa Neef). World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/04.

• Rising Inequalities and Political Cleavages in Spain (with Amory Gethin and Clara Martínez-Toledano). WID.world Issue Brief 2019/4.

  • Spanish version.

  • Media coverage: eldiario.es and Expansión.

• Brazil Divided: Hindsights on the Growing Politicisation of Inequality (with Amory Gethin). WID.world Issue Brief 2018/3.

  • Media coverage: Valor Econômico and The Brazilian Report.

Book Reviews

• Inequality and Legitimacy: Past, Present and Future. Review of Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, Harvard University Press, 2020. Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy, 2021, 11 (1).

• The Reformation in Economics: Back to the Future. Review of The Reformation in Economics: A Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Economic Theory by Philip Pilkington, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. American Affairs, February 18, 2020.

Teaching

• Les mesures de l'économie (BA in History, Economics and Society, University of Geneva)

• History of International Economic Regulation (MSc in International Economic History, University of Geneva)

• Growth, Distribution and Politics: Empirical Perspectives (MSc in Political Economy of Capitalism, University of Geneva)

Contributions to Policy Debates

• Blog posts, press articles and interviews on economic policy and inequality.

Databases