Emphasizing the organization’s mission can be a powerful motivator for public workers Evidence from a field experiment: y-khan.github.io/yasirkhan.org/… Very cool job market paper by Muhammad Yasir Khan Yasir Khan

Ill present at this month's policy research talk World Bank Webinar is open to all.

#EconTwitter if you need a distraction, tune into our PF seminar this Thursday at 11am EST. Barra Roantree will present on "Income tax and the careers of women". @victoriaprowse will discuss. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Very interesting evidence from Clemens Fuest et al: Comparing prices at REWE🇩🇪online w/ BILLA🇦🇹online (counterfactual) indicates close to full pass through of Germany's temporary VAT cut. (1/3)

Great to see that the Journal of Public Economics special issue we edited with Johannes on "New Perspectives on Consumption Measures" is out!

Less than 2 weeks to go till our @TARC 2013 Annual Conference 15-17 December! Full programme of speakers and discussion panels now online, including Judith Freedman František Imrecze and James Alm. Register your place at eventbrite.com/e/tax-administ… and join the conversation #TARCConf2020

🚨How do local governments set policy in the presence of mobile factors, spillovers, and information flows? For answers, see our article "Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics" (w/ William Hoyt and Jay Wilson), forthcoming in AEA Journals J. Economic Literature. Thread👇

Looking forward to #TARCConf2020 and to papers presented by on Twitter Mazhar Waseem Thiess Buettner 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Duccio Gamannossi degl'Innocenti and of course the keynote by Judith Freedman

#EconTwitter Eric Ohrn and I are back with the Public Finance seminar! Tune in this Thursday, Jan 21st, at 11am EST. Daniela Scur 🇨🇦🇧🇷 will present her work on "Organizational capacity and profit shifting" with me. Jim Hines with discuss. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Post Doc Positions @TARC to work on empirical tax and tax administration issues. Link below. Deadline February 4. TaxTwitter R/T ⁦Arun Advani⁩ ⁦Thiess Buettner 🇪🇺🇩🇪⁩ ⁦Mazhar Waseem⁩ ⁦Sofronis Clerides⁩ jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Call for Papers - Submissions deadline: 18 February 2021 CESifo Area Conference on Public Economics 2021 - Scientific organizer Claus Thustrup Kreiner - keynote speaker Owen Zidar - Richard Musgrave Lecture #RML2021 will be delivered by Mihir A. Desai cesifo.org/en/node/60457

Curious about tax follies and wisdom? A sneak preview of my book with Joel Slemrod, chatting with Michael W. Klein #taxtwitter

Is the value-added tax a "good" tax? Should countries be using it? Our new AEA Journals paper with Anne Brockmeyer Giulia Mascagni Mazhar Waseem Miguel Almunia says YES, BUT... 👇 aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

A conversation with Giulia Mascagni at a Zurich conference became an idea, then we joined forces with Anne Brockmeyer, Mazhar Waseem & Vedanth Nair and now our paper using admin VAT data from 11 countries is at the Journal of Economic Perspectives AEA Journals. Check it out!👇

How can lower income countries collect more taxes? That’s a big question on the minds of many government officials and researchers. Gabe Tourek Gabriel Tourek and I offer some answers in our new paper just out in the Journal of Econ Perspectives @aeapubs aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… 1/n

10 years ago my PhD advisors (+&others I admire) co-authored a symposium in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on #tax & #development. Their work was a big source of inspiration for me. Fast forward and we now have a similar JEP sympo on the new knowledge frontier in #Tax4Dev.

It all started with a chat with Miguel Almunia in a cold winter evening in Zurich as we had weirdly similar projects on discrepancies in VAT data in Uganda and Rwanda. We were lucky to then have Anne Brockmeyer Mazhar Waseem Vedanth Nair join us. Now that idea is a JEP article👇🏼

Another one to keep in mind for when people say, 'what about carrousel fraud in Europe? a RST would be better'. Turns out even a bad VAT is better than the alternatives. By Anne Brockmeyer, Miguel Almunia, Mazhar Waseem et al aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

📅 Call for Papers! The 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference is now inviting paper submissions on "Public Finance and Structural Transformation." Keynote address by Chicago Booth’s Chang Tai Hsieh. Deadline: April 15! wrld.bg/CNgM50QUinw

🆕 VAT in developing countries: flawed, but irreplaceable Today on VoxDev, Anne Brockmeyer World Bank Research, Giulia Mascagni International Centre for Tax and Development, Mazhar Waseem Manchester Economics, Miguel Almunia CUNEF Universidad & Vedanth Nair Institute for Fiscal Studies outline key takeaways from their research: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…