Laurence M. Jacquet

E-mail:

Laurence.Jacquet@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 559 59985

Fax:

+47 559 59543

Title:

Assistant professor,  Ph.D.
Université Catholique de Louvain, 2004.

Nationality:

Belgian
Personal webpage

Teaching languages:

English

Teaching areas:

Master Courses:
* Integration and Globalization (INB426)
* Optimization and Microeconomics (ECO401)

PhD Courses:
* Public Economics (ECS510)
* The Economics of Efficient Public Policy (ECS515)
* Mathematics for Economists (Pre-Course PhD)

Research areas:

 

Primary:

Public Economics, Optimal taxation, Welfarist and non-welfarist economics, Income inequalities.

Secondary:

Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Experimental economics

Work in progress:
  • Jacquet, L., "Take it or Leave it: Tagging and Redistributive Taxation with Endogenous Take-up", NHH Working Paper Series 02/09, CESifo Working Paper, April 2010, Latest version: July 2010. Invited to Revise and Resubmit.
  • Jacquet, L., Lehmann, E. (CREST) and B. Van der Linden (UCLouvain), "The Optimal Marginal Tax Rates with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses", Université catholique de Louvain IRES, Discussion Papers Series 2010033, September 2010 (Latest version). Earlier versions are available as: Working Document May 2009, CORE and NHH Working Paper January 2010, IZA Working paper, March 2010.
  • Jacquet, L., Lehmann, E. (CREST) and B. Van der Linden (UCLouvain), “Optimal Income Taxation with Labor Supply and Demand Responses”, Mimeo.
  • Jacquet, L., Pezanis-Christou, P. (BETA) and S. Robin (BETA), Free-riding and Take up in Voluntary Contribution Games: An Experimental Analysis”, Mimeo.
  • Boadway, R. (Queen’s Univ.), Brett , C. (Mount Allison University) and L. Jacquet, “Optimal NonLinear Income Taxes with Responsibility”, Mimeo.
  • Jacquet, L., “Dominance of optimal income tax rates under maximin", Mimeo. (This is an extension of Jacquet 2010, Economics Bulletin).
  • Jacquet, L. and D. Van de gaer, "Politiques Fiscales Optimales pour les Bas Revenus et Principe de Compensation" (Optimal Fiscal Policies for the Low Income and Compensation Principle), Mimeo.
  • Jacquet, L., “Can Basic Income or its Cognates Be Grounded on Optimal Tax Theory?, Mimeo.
For my other Works in Progress, please have a look at my personal homepage.

 

Publications :
  • Jacquet, L. (2010), “Optimal Labor Income Taxation under Maximin: An Upper Bound, Economics Bulletin, 30(4): 3152-3160.
  • Jacquet, L. and D. Van de gaer (Ghent Univ. and CORE)(2010), A Comparison of Optimal Tax Policies when Compensation or Responsibility Matter, Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming.
  • Boadway, R. (Queen’s Univ.) and L. Jacquet (2008), “Optimal Marginal and Average Income Taxation under Maximin, Journal of Economic Theory, 143: 425-441.
  • Jacquet, L. and B. Van der Linden (UCLouvain) (2006), “HThe Normative Analysis of Tagging Revisited: Dealing with StigmatizationH, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 62(2): 168-198.
  • Van Parijs, Ph. (UCLouvain and Harvard Univ.), Jacquet, L. et C. Salinas (2002) “Basic Income and its Cognates. Partial Basic Income, Earned Income Tax Credit and Reduction of Social Security Contributions as Alternative Ways of Addressing the New Social Question, in Basic Income on the Agenda. Policy Options and Political Feasibility, R. J. van der Veen & L. Groot eds., Amsterdam University Press : 32-59.
  • Van Parijs, Ph., Jacquet, L. et C. Salinas (2002) “El ingreso básico y sus parientes: El Ingreso Básico Parcial versus el Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) y la Reducción de los Aportes a la Seguridad Social, como formas alternativas de enfrentar la Nueva Cuestión Social, in La Renta Básica en la agenda. Objetivos y posibilidades del ingreso ciudadano , Robert J. van der Veen & Loek Groot & LoVuolo, Ruben eds., Buenos Aires: CIEPP & Barcelona: Red Renta Basica : 89-142.
  • Van Parijs, Ph., Jacquet, L. et C. Salinas (2001) “Basinkomst och dess släktingar, Den nya sociala fragan. Om arbete, inkomst och rättvisa”, Nanna Kildal ed., Göteborg, in Daidalos : 143-94.
  • Salaire et norme salariale en Belgique” (2002), Regards Economiques, 6, p.1-12, with V. Bodart  (UCLouvain) and B. Van der Linden (UCLouvain).
  • Participatie verzekering en participatie-inkomen” (2000), Oikos, 14, p.9-31, with M-P. Boucher (UQAM), I. De Greef (BNB), Y. Vanderborght (FUSL) and Ph. Van Parijs (UCLouvain and Harvard Univ.).