About

I have been awarded a Research Support Grant for £23,350 from the Stone Centre at UCL for a project on "Inequality Perceptions and Preferences for Carbon Taxation". I am the Principal Investigator on the grant, alongside Co-Investigators Julian Limberg (KCL) and Yves Steinebach (Oslo).

• KCL News Centre piece about the grant award: Is inequality behind fall in support for carbon tax policies?

King’s College London has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant for £287,299 for a project on "The Political Economy of Knowledge-Based Growth". I am the Principal Investigator on the grant, alongside Co-Investigators Hanna Kleider (KCL), Niccolo Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia), and Sebastian Diessner (Leiden).

• KCL News Centre piece about the grant award: Grant funding approved for major new project

The Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Advanced Capitalist Democracies: A New Index for Comparative Research

Socio-Economic Review, 2025, with  Sebastian Diessner (Leiden), Niccolo  Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia), Federico Filetti (LSE), Hanna Kleider (KCL) and Simone Tonelli (Bologna)

Embedding Skill Bias: Technology, Institutions, and Inequality in Wages and Benefits

Comparative Politics, 2025, with  Sebastian Diessner (Leiden) and Niccolo  Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia)

Taxes on Top Incomes and Financialisation

Review of International Political Economy, 2025, with Lukas Haffert (Geneva) and Julian Limberg (KCL) 

The ICT Revolution and Preferences for Taxing Top Earners

Journal of European Public Policy, 2024, with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Nina Weber (KCL)

Why Do (Some) Ordinary Americans Support Tax Cuts for the Rich? Evidence From a Randomized Survey Experiment

European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 78, with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Nina Weber (KCL)

• Our piece for The Washington Post on the research and its implications for Biden's tax plans: How Biden could boost Republican support for tax hikes on the rich

The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich

Socio-Economic Review, 2022, 20(2), 539-559, with Julian Limberg (KCL)

Working paper version: London School of Economics, International Inequalities Institute, Working Paper, No. 55 (available here).

• • Podcasts where we discuss the research and its implications: SER on Tap; LSE IQ

  • Our opinion piece for NBC News on the research and its implications for debates on taxing the rich in the United States: Trump and Republicans prefer Covid tax cuts to hikes. Our research proves they're wrong.

  • Our short piece about the key findings of the research and its wider implications for tax policymaking in post-COVID era on The Conversation: Footing the COVID-19 bill: economic case for tax hike on wealthy

  • Bloomberg article exploring the research methods used in our study: Trickle-Down Economics Fails a Sophisticated Statistical Test: Here’s the wizardry behind two scholars’ questioning of tax cuts for the rich

  • Opinion piece by Robert Reich in The Guardian drawing on the paper: Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does – is Biden listening?

  • Opinion piece by Paul Mason in The New Statesman drawing on the paper: Labour must overturn the neoliberal revolution in taxation

  • International media coverage: Al Jazeera, BBC Mundo, Bloomberg News, Business Insider, CBS News, El Tiempo, Expressen, Financial Times, Guardian (1), Guardian (2), iNews, La Presse, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, The Conversation, The Hill (1), The Hill (2), The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times, The Washington Post.