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Joel Slemrod

Global rank #115 99%

Institution: University of Michigan

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.otpr.org

First Publication: 1980

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: psl10 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 4.36 4.02 0.00 13.99
Last 10 Years 0.00 9.18 4.69 0.00 24.31
All Time 17.93 40.52 9.38 0.00 163.90

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 72
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 71.66

Publications (72)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Does giving tax debtors a break improve compliance and income? Evidence from quasi‐random assignment of IRS Revenue Officers Economic Inquiry C 4
2025 An inverse-Ramsey tax rule Journal of Public Economics A 4
2023 Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property Journal of Public Economics A 3
2023 Taxing the rich (more) Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 2
2023 Are capital gains the Achilles’ heel of taxing the rich? Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 2
2023 Three Decades of Tax Analysis, 1992–2022 National Tax Journal B 1
2022 Who Sells During a Crash? Evidence from Tax Return Data on Daily Sales of Stock Economic Journal A 6
2022 Incentive effects of the IRS’ passport certification and revocation process Journal of Public Economics A 4
2022 Public disclosure of tax information: Compliance tool or social network? Journal of Public Economics A 3
2022 How Do Taxpayers Respond to Public Disclosure and Social Recognition Programs? Evidence from Pakistan Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2022 Group Equity and Implicit Discrimination in Tax Systems National Tax Journal B 1
2021 Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases Journal of Public Economics A 2
2020 Heard it through the grapevine: The direct and network effects of a tax enforcement field experiment on firms Journal of Public Economics A 4
2020 Missing miles: Evasion responses to car taxes Journal of Public Economics A 3
2020 Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of US Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 5
2019 Distributional Implications of Joint Tax Evasion Economic Journal A 3
2017 Optimal tax administration Journal of Public Economics A 2
2017 A Characteristics Approach to Optimal Taxation: Line Drawing and Tax‐Driven Product Innovation Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 3
2017 The behavioral response to housing transfer taxes: Evidence from a notched change in D.C. policy Journal of Urban Economics A 3
2017 Does credit-card information reporting improve small-business tax compliance? Journal of Public Economics A 5
2016 Does Tax-Collection Invariance Hold? Evasion and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 4
2015 Taxes on the Internet: Deterrence Effects of Public Disclosure American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 3
2015 Taxpayer Search for Information: Implications for Rational Attention American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 3
2014 Distinguishing the role of authority “in” and authority “to” Journal of Public Economics A 3
2012 Car notches: Strategic automaker responses to fuel economy policy Journal of Public Economics A 2
2012 Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 3
2011 Tax policy and the missing middle: Optimal tax remittance with firm-level administrative costs Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Tax policy and the missing middle: Optimal tax remittance with firm-level administrative costs Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Introduction to the special issue on The Role of Firms in Tax Systems Journal of Public Economics A 1
2010 Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes, and Competition from the Internet American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 3
2010 The fatal toll of driving to drink: The effect of minimum legal drinking age evasion on traffic fatalities Journal of Health Economics B 2
2010 Optimal observability in a linear income tax Economics Letters C 2
2009 Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending? American Economic Review S 2
2009 What does tax aggressiveness signal? Evidence from stock price reactions to news about tax shelter involvement Journal of Public Economics A 2
2009 Tax competition with parasitic tax havens Journal of Public Economics A 2
2008 Tax law changes, income-shifting and measured wage inequality: Evidence from India Journal of Public Economics A 2
2007 The economics of earnings manipulation and managerial compensation RAND Journal of Economics A 2
2006 Putting Firms into Optimal Tax Theory American Economic Review S 2
2005 The limitations of decentralized world redistribution: An optimal taxation approach European Economic Review B 3
2005 Corporate tax evasion with agency costs Journal of Public Economics A 2
2005 Do Trust and Trustworthiness Pay Off? Journal of Human Resources A 2
2004 Toward a Consumption Tax, and Beyond American Economic Review S 4
2004 Do we now collect any revenue from taxing capital income? Journal of Public Economics A 3
2004 Are corporate tax rates, or countries, converging? Journal of Public Economics A 1
2003 Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritances and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from across States and Time American Economic Review S 3
2003 Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence from Estate-Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2003 Consumer Response to Tax Rebates American Economic Review S 2
2003 Thanatology and Economics: The Behavioral Economics of Death American Economic Review S 1
2002 The optimal elasticity of taxable income Journal of Public Economics A 2
2001 Taxpayer response to an increased probability of audit: evidence from a controlled experiment in Minnesota Journal of Public Economics A 3
1999 Did Steve Forbes scare the US municipal bond market? Journal of Public Economics A 2
1998 The Effect Of Taxes On Investment And Income Shifting To Puerto Rico Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1997 Deconstructing the Income Tax. American Economic Review S 1
1997 The seesaw principle in international tax policy Journal of Public Economics A 3
1995 Consumer Response to the Timing of Income: Evidence from a Change in Tax Withholding. American Economic Review S 2
1995 Income Creation or Income Shifting? Behavioral Responses to the Tax Reform Act of 1986. American Economic Review S 1
1995 What Do Cross-Country Studies Teach about Government Involvement, Prosperity, and Economic Growth? Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 1
1994 The optimal two-bracket linear income tax Journal of Public Economics A 4
1994 Fixing the leak in Okun's bucket optimal tax progressivity when avoidance can be controlled Journal of Public Economics A 1
1993 Taxes, tariffs, and the global corporation Journal of Public Economics A 2
1993 Diminished Expectations of Nuclear War and Increased Personal Savings: Evidence from Individual Survey Data. American Economic Review S 2
1992 Do Taxes Matter? Lessons from the 1980's. American Economic Review S 1
1991 Do Taxes Matter for Foreign Direct Investment? World Bank Economic Review B 2
1991 Welfare Dominance: An Application to Commodity Taxation. American Economic Review S 2
1989 The Compliance Cost of Itemizing Deductions: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns. American Economic Review S 2
1989 Randomness in tax enforcement Journal of Public Economics A 2
1989 Are Estimated Tax Elasticities Really Just Tax Evasion Elasticities? The Case of Charitable Contributions. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1985 An Empirical Test for Tax Evasion. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1984 The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains: Reply Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
1983 A General Equilibrium Simulation Study of Subsidies to Municipal Expenditures. Journal of Finance A 2
1980 The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
1980 Personal Taxation, Portfolio Choice, and the Effect of the Corporation Income Tax. Journal of Political Economy S 2