The seminar will take place on Thursday May 19th at 12.30 h. in room 2P19 of the Department of Applied Economics (2nd floor of the Faculty of Economics).
This talk, organised by the Regional Taxation Chair of the Universitat de València and the Regional Ministry of Finance and Economic Model, in collaboration with the Department of Applied Economics, aims to present the results of a paper that evaluates the extent to which bunching behaviour varies among taxpayers following a major personal income tax reform introduced in Ecuador in 2008.
Xavier Jara Tamayo is a Doctor in Economics from the University of Louvain and is a researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. His main lines of research include public, labour and development economics. He specialises in the study of poverty and inequality, the redistributive effect of tax and benefit policies, labour supply and welfare measurement.
He is also a member of the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) and, as of June 2022, he will join the London School of Economics' Institute for International Inequalities as a research fellow.
