My main research interests are in public finance, with a special focus on redistributive policies, accounting for tax-driven mobility.
Selected Publications
“Income Shifting as Income Creation?” (with Håkan Selin), Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming.
“Marginal Deadweight Loss when the Income Tax is Nonlinear” (with S. Blomquist), Journal of Econometrics, 211(1): 47-60.
“Tax me if you can! Optimal income tax between competing governments” (with E. Lehmann and A. Trannoy), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4): 1995-2030.
“Shall we keep highly skilled at home? The optimal income tax perspective” (with A. Trannoy), Social Choice and Welfare, 39(4): 751-782.
“Optimal nonlinear income tax and nonlinear pricing: optimality conditions and comparative static properties“, Social Choice and Welfare, 35(20): 199-220.
“Optimal income tax under the threat if migration by top-income earners” (with A. Trannoy), Journal of Public Economics, 94(1-2): 163-173.
“When Kolm Meets Mirrlees: ELIE” (with A. Trannoy), in Social Ethics et Normative Economics, edited by M. Fleurbaey, M. Salle and J. Weymark, Springer Verlag, 207-231.
“An Exploration of Incentive-Compatible ELIE” (with A. Trannoy), in Macrojustice: A pluridisciplinary evaluation of Kolm’s theory, edited by C. Gamel and M. Lubrano, Springer Verlag, 207-231.
Publications in French Peer-Reviewed Journals (Selection)
“Evaluer les limites de la redistribution – approches partielles ou approche globale ?“(with S. Bastani), Économie et Statistique, 467-468: 163-171.
Laurent Simula 