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Lecture | Fatih Guvenen: “On the Mechanics of Top Wealth Inequality - With An Application to Wealth Taxation” | May 16

The Paris School of Economics is glad to invite you to a lecture by Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota) organized by the International Macroeconomics Chair.

The conference will be held at the Paris School of Economics and will be followed by a discussion with Laurent Bach (ESSEC Business School). It will focus on:

On the Mechanics of Top Wealth Inequality - With An Application to Wealth Taxation

  • Date: May 16, 2024 ; from 4.00pm
  • Venue: Paris School of Economics
    48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris, Daniel Cohen Amphitheater

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Fatih Guvenen

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Fatih Guvenen is the Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and the founding Director of the Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute (MEBDI). He is also an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Fatih received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Turkey and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has held visiting or full-time academic positions at the University of Rochester, NYU Stern School of Business, Yale University, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Fatih’s research covers various dimensions of economic inequality and how these interact with the macroeconomy and government policies. His papers have been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies, among others, and have been covered in the media (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Fortune, among others). His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Retirement Research Consortium, the Russell Sage Foundation, and other organizations.

This event is organized by the International Macroeconomics Chair, which is the result of a partnership between the Banque de France and PSE. Sharing the same vision about scientific needs on international issues, these two organisations joint their efforts to build a chair with the objective of fostering the development of research on the financial & monetary international system, and in international Macroeconomics.