Economics serving society
Facundo Alvaredo

Facundo Alvaredo

PSE Professor

Associate Professor EHESS

WIL Codirector World Inequality Lab

Campus Jourdan – 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

Research groups: Economic and Social History
  • Income and Wealth inequality
  • Wealth, income, redistribution and tax policy

Publications

In refereed journals

  • A Note on the Relationship between Top Income Shares and the Gini Coefficient ; Economics Letters, forthcoming.
  • Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, with Emmanuel Saez ; Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(5) : 1140-1167, 2009.
  • Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005 ; Explorations in Economic History, 46(4) : 404-417, 2009.
  • The Monetary Method to Measure the Shadow Economy : The Forgotten Problem of the Initial Conditions, with Hildegart Ahumada and Alfredo Canavese ; Economics Letters, 101(2) : 97-99, 2009.
  • The Monetary Method and the Size of the Shadow Economy : A Critical Assessment, with Hildegart Ahumada and Alfredo Canavese. Review of Income and Wealth, 53(2) : 363-371, 2007.
  • La Méthode Monetaire pour l’Estimation de l’Économie Informelle : Une Étude Critique de ses Usages, with Hildegart Ahumada and Alfredo Canavese, Revue Économique, 60(5) : 1069-1078, 2009.


Chapters in books

  • Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, with Emmanuel Saez ; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty (editors) Top Incomes vol. II : A Global Perspective, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010, Chapter 10 (longer version of Alvaredo and Saez, 2009, ut supra).
  • Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005 ; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty, op. cit., Chapter 11 (longer version of Alvaredo, 2009, ut supra).
  • The Rich in Argentina over the Twentieth Century 1932-2004 ; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty, op. cit., Chapter 6.
  • Top Incomes in Italy 1974-2004, with Elena Pisano ; in A. Atkinson and T. Piketty, op. cit., Chapter 12.
  • The Dynamics of Income Concentration in Developed and Developing Countries : A View from the Top, with Thomas Piketty ; in L. Lopez-Calva and N. Lustig (editors) Declining Inequality in Latin America : A Decade of Progress ?, Chapter 4 ; Washington DC : The Brookings Institution, 2010.