CESifo Research Network Fellow

Spencer Bastani

Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 6, Box 513, 753 12, Uppsala, Sweden

Affiliated Research Network Area

Public Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Public Economics
  • Labour Economics

CESifo Working Papers

AI, Automation and Taxation

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström
CESifo, Munich, 2024
CESifo Working Paper No. 11084

Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe, Oliver Gürtler
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10339

The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: A Brief Guide

Spencer Bastani
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10322

How Should Consumption Be Taxed?

Spencer Bastani, Sebastian Koehne
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 10038

Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Education in the Presence of Income-Misreporting

Spencer Bastani, Firouz Gahvari, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9987

Competition for Promotion Can Induce Household Specialization between Equally Competitive Spouses

Spencer Bastani, Lisa Dickmanns, Thomas Giebe, Oliver Gürtler
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9660

Social Exclusion and Optimal Redistribution

Thomas Aronsson, Spencer Bastani, Khayyam Tayibov
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9448

Optimal Redistribution in the Presence of Signaling

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9210

The Ability Gradient in Bunching

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8233

A General Framework for Studying Contests

Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe, Oliver Gürtler
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7993

Ethnicity and tax filing behavior

Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe, Chizheng Miao
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7576

Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7482

How Should Capital be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7004

Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6708

Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6533

Public Pensions in a Multi-Period Mirrleesian Income Tax Model

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6206

Political Preferences for Redistribution in Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Jacob Lundberg
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6205

Anti-discrimination Legislation and the Efficiency-Enhancing Role of Mandatory Parental Leave

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5917

Estimating Participation Responses Using Transfer Program Reform

Spencer Bastani, Ylva Moberg, Håkan Selin
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5781

Optimal Commodity Taxation with Varying Quality of Goods

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5635

Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4938

How Should Commodities be Taxed? A Counterargument to the Recommendation in the Mirrlees Review

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Jukka Pirttilä
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4240

Bunching and Non-Bunching at Kink Points of the Swedish Tax Schedule

Spencer Bastani, Håkan Selin
CESifo, Munich, 2012
CESifo Working Paper No. 3865

Public Provision of Private Goods, Tagging and Optimal Income Taxation with Heterogeneity in Needs

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2010
CESifo Working Paper no. 3275

The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
CESifo, Munich, 2010
CESifo Working Paper No. 3225