New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17985 "Effective Tax Rates and Firm Size" By @pierrebachas World Bank Research World Bank, Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social Institute for Fiscal Studies UCL Economics UCL, @Roel_Dom and Camille Semelet Universität München. ow.ly/FynZ50Np3Yg #CEPR_DE, #CEPR_PE

📄WORKING PAPER | Effective Tax Rates and Firm Size @pierrebachas, Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social, @Roel_Dom & Camille Semelet study how firms use tax incentives to lower their effective tax rate (ETR) using full-population administrative tax data from 13 countries 🌐 cutt.ly/effective-tax-…

📢Conference alert 📢 We are thrilled to host the 5th @worldbank Institute for Fiscal Studies @ODI_globalresearch conference in London on Sept 21-22. Theme: The Political Economy of Public Finances in LMICs Keynote speaker: Professor Rohini Pande Submit by May 15 here: taxdev.org/news-events/ca…

🚨 WP Alert🚨 Do local governments respond to their neighbors corporate and property tax policy choices? Valeria Merlo, Andreas Schanbacher, Georg Wamser and I show that local governments in Germany exhibit substantial tax policy spillovers with a distinct spatial pattern1/11🧵

❓ Do firms end up paying less tax than they should? @pierrebachas Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social @Roel_Dom and Camille Semelet calculate effective tax rates for a group of countries from Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Read their research summary ➡️ stone-econ.org/research/effec… UCL Economics

Thank you Michael Irlacher and Ulrich Glogowsky for organizing such an incredible workshop!

Thrilled to have my amazing co-author Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social presenting our paper with @pierrebachas at the NBER public conference today! Tune in if you have the chance ▶️👇

📑WP alert! Worried about international tax evasion? With my fantastic coauthors @annette_als, @CasiElisa, and BarbaraStage, we show that global initiatives can tackle global problems. But the devil is in the details and countries can undermine it. A 🧵. nmbu.no/forskning/wp-1…

Excited to present my job market paper! Exploiting a unique microdatabase, I estimate that education accounts for: 1⃣ 50% of global economic growth since 1980 2⃣ 70% of growth for the world’s poorest 20% 3⃣ 50% of global gender inequality reduction 🔗 amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Geth…

Can property taxes work as a corrective tool to foster investment in financial assets? I provide answers in my job market paper “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation” A short 🧵 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

A founding member of #BRICS, #India has long had significant weight. With growth rates of 7%, India outpaced its BRICS peers, incl. #China. In the #EconPolForum, I. Gourevich, Dorothee Hillrichs & Camille Semelet portray India’s integration into the world economy. 👉cesifo.org/en/publication…

Excited about the launch of DaTax! 🔥 A Lab to study taxes, firms & jobs using micro tax data In addition to WB staff & partners, agenda involves talented junior researchers incl Camille Semelet Magaly Saenz Alípio Ferreira Vedanth Nair Santiago R. Cesteros Linda Wu Jakob Brounstein & + not on X

📢 I am on the academic job market 🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelmen… In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions. JMP thread below👇

1/How do MNEs shift profits to tax havens & who’s doing most of it? Using #German administrative data, authors show: 🔹Profit shifting rises sharply with firm size 🔹€19bn shifted in 2022 alone 🔹95% of that by firms covered by the Global Minimum Tax 👉 taxobservatory.eu/publication/th…

Huge thanks to International Tax and Public Finance, Thiess Buettner 🇪🇺🇩🇪, Philipp Doerrenberg and #IIPF2025 for a great conference and this recognition! Very grateful to my fantastic coauthors, Joseph Enguehard & Igor Kolesnikov whose contributions and support were key in this research adventure!