I am an economist working on issues in public economics, especially taxation.

My work falls broadly within two topics. First, I have focused on the relationship between different fairness views and tax policies. Second, I work on alternative ways to tax income from businesses.

I am also an Associate Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and an Associated Researcher at Norwegian Fiscal Studies.

I received my PhD from the University of Oslo during which I was a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and interned at the International Monetary Fund. After that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

My interests are in public and welfare economics. I typically combine theory and data to study tax policy. My current research agendas are:
1. Taxation of income from business, in particular shareholders.
2. Fairness principles and (tax) policy.

Projects I am currently working on include:
– Meritocratic taxation
– Policy analysis with households of different size
– Whether to tax corporations or their shareholders
– How to design tax deductions for charitable contributions
– Exit taxation
– Inheritance taxation and firms