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Kristoffer Berg

@kristoberg.bsky.social

Lecturer & Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Research and writing on tax policy. https://sites.google.com/view/kristofferberg/

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Kristoffer Berg@kristoberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to @cesifo.org for another great Public Economics conference with lively tax discussions. I enjoyed presenting new work with @georgthunecke.bsky.social on fair and efficient division of profit tax revenues across countries with an application to optimal formula apportionment in the EU.

CESifo@cesifo.org · 2y ago

📣 CfP: CESifo Area Conference on Public Economics, 19 - 21 March 2025 (Munich) ⏳ Submit by 𝟯𝟭 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 Organizer: Claus T. Kreiner Keynote Speaker: @fixbierbrauer.bsky.social The 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 will take place on 19 March. @iipf.bsky.social #EconSky www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Kristoffer Berg@kristoberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Young people are hanging out less” from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and great response letter on Hume: “His spirits and physical health were greatly revived by a regular supper of “stovies”, washed down by a daily pint of claret as prescribed by his physician.” (on.ft.com/4alCXIC and on.ft.com/4hlCetL)

Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health

Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

on.ft.com

Frikk Nesje@frikknesje.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality" (joint with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social) is now out as a working paper! We study all theories of justice that disentangle intergenerational discounting and intergenerational inequality, and I am amazed by the results! www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality

We study all theories of justice that disentangle ethical views on intergenerational discounting and intergenerational inequality. Each “modular” social welfare function is uniquely identified by a ti...

cesifo.org

Kristoffer Berg@kristoberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

My paper on the relationship between inequality aversion and non-discrimination has just been published in Economica onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The main result is that inequality aversion in tax policy is overestimated when horizontal equity is ignored.

Revealing inequality aversion from tax policy and the role of non‐discrimination

Governments have increasing access to individual information, but they exploit little of it when setting taxes. This paper shows how to reveal inequality aversion from observed tax policy choices of ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Kristoffer Berg@kristoberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Submit your public finance papers to the next year’s @iipf.bsky.social conference! As a member of the scientific committee, I would love to see some nice optimal tax papers.

IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance@iipf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here we go #EconSky #EconConf 📢 Proud to announce our #IIPF2025 congress Call for Papers. Let's meet at USIU Nairobi in August 2025! Submit your paper by Feb 15, 2025. A bunch of links with more info available at iipf.org/cng.htm

Moritz Drupp@moritzdrupp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thrilled to see “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint review with U.Kornek, J.Meya & L.Sager Environmental loss & economic inequality are two key challenges of our time, but how do both relate & interact?

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economics of Inequality and the Environment" by Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, and Lutz Sager. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Daron Acemoglu@dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 2y ago

So my hypothesis is that liberalism failed because it came to power and it did not adjust to this new reality. It became too dominant and not sufficiently self-critical. Let me explain this point using the US case, though I believe the story is similar in many other parts of the world...