Emmanuel Saez

Emmanuel Saez is the Chancellor's Professorship of Tax Policy and Public Finance and Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California, Berkeley. He is affiliated with the Department of ECON and specializes in Public Economics. His research focuses on taxation, redistribution, and inequality, with an emphasis on behavioral responses to taxation, optimal income taxation, and social insurance. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and has been a faculty member at UC Berkeley since 2002. He is also co-director of the Public Policy Program at CEPR and editor of the Journal of Public Economics.

Emmanuel Saez is a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, specializing in Public Economics. His research focuses on income and wealth inequality, intergenerational mobility, and the impact of tax policies on economic behavior. He has extensively analyzed historical and contemporary data to assess trends in inequality, particularly in the United States. His work includes studies on the elasticity of taxable income, the role of information in retirement decisions, and the distributional effects of taxation. Saez has also contributed to global inequality research through reports like the World Inequality Report. His research combines empirical analysis with policy implications, offering insights into the mechanisms driving economic disparities.