Research At SCEPA
A Carbon-based Wealth Tax for Climate Protection - Updated and Extended Proposal
Wealth distribution and climate risks are two great challenges of our time. This paper proposes a new type of tax to correct wealth distribution and help finance (and accelerate) the green transition.
A Proposal for a Carbon Wealth Tax: Modelling, Empirics, and Policy
ARTICLE | This paper proposes a new type of tax to help finance (and accelerate) the green transition.
Credit, Output, and Financial Stress
ARTICLE | This paper highlights the role of credit performance in shaping economic performance and sheds new light on both the Brazilian boom in the 2000s and the economic contraction since 2015. Its results suggest that an active stance on public credit would have been instrumental in speeding up the economic recovery.
The Duration of U.S. Joblessness and the Great Recession
WORKING PAPER | Time spent unemployed can have a profound impact on the quality of a worker's life, future, and family. SCEPA's latest working paper focuses on gender and racial disparities in the time it takes to find work and how these periods are impacted by unemployment insurance.