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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Economics

Firouz Gahvari

Leiby S. Hall Endowed Chair and Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Public Economics; environmental economics; welfare economics

Education

Economics, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, M.Sc., University of London (London School of Economics)
Economics, B.Sc., University of London (Queen Mary College)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Leiby S. Hall Endowed Chair and Professor Emeritus, Economics

Recent Publications

Canta, C., Cremer, H., & Gahvari, F. (2024). Welfare-improving tax evasion. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 126(1), 98-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12539

Bastani, S., Gahvari, F., & Micheletto, L. (2023). Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income-misreporting. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 25(4), 679-726. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12634

Canta, C., Cremer, H., & Gahvari, F. (2020). “Honor thy father and thy mother” or not: uncertain family aid and the design of social long term care insurance. Social Choice and Welfare, 55(4), 687-734. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-020-01260-4

Gahvari, F., & Micheletto, L. (2020). Wage endogeneity, tax evasion, and optimal nonlinear income taxation. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22(3), 501-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12424

Gahvari, F., & Micheletto, L. (2019). Heterogeneity, monetary policy, Mirrleesian taxes, and the Friedman rule. Economic Theory, 67(4), 983-1018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-018-1108-x

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Economics

214 David Kinley Hall

1407 West Gregory Drive | MC-707

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-0120

Email: econ@illinois.edu

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