Sören Blomquist
Professor emeritus at Nationalekonomiska institutionen; Professorer och lektorer
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 51 22
- E-mail:
- Soren.Blomquist@nek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Biography
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Sören Blomquist received his PhD from Princeton University in 1976. He became professor at Stockholm University in 1985 and professor at Uppsala University in 1991. He was visiting assistant professor at University of British Columbia in 77/78, visiting associate professor at University of Michigan 84/85 and visiting professor at Princeton University 89/90.
Blomquist has served on the board of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) for a six year period. He was associate editor for Journal of Public Economics 1998-2002 and was one of the co-editors 2003-2015.
Sören Blomquist's research is mainly in the field of public economics in particular on taxation and the interaction between public expenditures and taxes. He has published articles in journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, International Economic Review and Journal of Public Economics.
Publications
Selection of publications
- How should commodities be taxed? (2015)
- Individual Heterogeneity, Nonlinear Budget Sets, and Taxable Income (2014)
- Welfare Gains Of Age-Related Optimal Income Taxation (2013)
- Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates (2008)
- Where Should the Elderly Live and Who Should Pay for their Care? A Study in Demographics and Geographical Economics (2007)
- The Case Against JIVE: A Comment (2006)
- Optimal Redistributive Taxation when Government’s and Agents’ Preferences Differ (2005)
- Redistribution and Provision of Public Goods in an Economic Federation (2004)
- Taxation and Heterogenous Preferences (2004)
- Taxation and Heterogeneous Preferences (2004)
- Redistribution, In-Kind Transfers and Matching Grants when the Federal Government Lacks Information on Local Costs (2004)
Recent publications
- The Econometrics of Nonlinear Budget Sets (2023)
- On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity (2021)
- Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation (2020)
- Pareto efficient income taxation without single-crossing (2020)
- Nonlinear and piecewise linear income taxation, and the subsidization of work-related goods (2019)
All publications
Articles
- The Econometrics of Nonlinear Budget Sets (2023)
- On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity (2021)
- Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation (2020)
- Pareto efficient income taxation without single-crossing (2020)
- Nonlinear and piecewise linear income taxation, and the subsidization of work-related goods (2019)
- Marginal deadweight loss when the income tax is nonlinear (2019)
- Optimal commodity taxation with varying quality of goods (2016)
- Public Provision of Private Goods, Self-Selection, and Income Tax Avoidance (2016)
- How should commodities be taxed? (2015)
- Welfare Gains Of Age-Related Optimal Income Taxation (2013)
- Vad är optimal beskattning? (2010)
- Where Should the Eldery Live and Who Should Pay for Their Care? (2010)
- Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates (2010)
- Hourly wage rate and taxable labor income responsiveness to changes in marginal tax rates (2010)
- Nonlinear income taxation and matching grants in a federation with decentralized in-kind transfers (2009)
- Redistribution and provision of public goods in an economic federation (2008)
- Taxation and heterogeneous preferences (2008)
- The Case Against JIVE: A Comment (2006)
Reports
- The Kink and Notch Bunching Estimators Cannot Identify the Taxable Income Elasticity (2018)
- Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation (2017)
- Individual Heterogeneity, Nonlinear Budget Sets, and Taxable Income (2014)
- Optimal Inequality behind the Veil of How Should Commodities Be Taxed? (2013)
- Public provision of private goods, self-selection and income tax avoidance (2011)
- The Standard Deviation of Life-Length, Retirement Incentives, and Optimal Pension Design (2010)
- Public Provision of Private Goods, Tagging and Optimal Income Taxation with Heterogeneity in Needs (2010)
- The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation (2010)
- Marginal Deadweight Loss when the Income Tax is Nonlinear (2010)
- Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates (2008)
- Where Should the Elderly Live and Who Should Pay for their Care? A Study in Demographics and Geographical Economics (2007)
- Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates (2007)
- Optimal Redistributive Taxation when Government’s and Agents’ Preferences Differ (2005)
- Optimal Redistributive Taxation when Government’s and Agents’ Preferences Differ (2005)
- Redistribution and Provision of Public Goods in an Economic Federation (2004)
- Taxation and Heterogenous Preferences (2004)
- Taxation and Heterogeneous Preferences (2004)
- Redistribution, In-Kind Transfers and Matching Grants when the Federal Government Lacks Information on Local Costs (2004)