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"A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation"

Thomas Piketty (PSE and CEPR) Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley, NBER and CEPR)

"Behavioural Responses to Notches: Evidence from Pakistani Tax Records"

Henrik Kleven (LSE and CEPR) Mazhar Waseem (LSE)

"Do Fiscal Rules Matter? A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design"

Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi University), Veronica Grembi (Catholic University of Milan) Ugo Troiano (Harvard University)

"Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection"

Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE)

"Long-Term Effects of Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India"

Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego)

"One Kind of Democracy"

Patrick Francois (The University of British Columbia and CEPR), Siwan Anderson (The University of British Columbia) Ashok Kotwal (The University of British Columbia)

"One kind of lawlessness: the welfare cost of piracy"

Tim Besley (LSE and CEPR), Hannes Mueller (IAS, Barcelona) Thiemo Fetzer (LSE)

"Preferences over equality in the presence of costly income sorting"

Gilat Levy (LSE) Ronny Razin (LSE)

"Private and Social Incentives in Effort Provision: An Online Experiment"

Mirco Tonin (University of Southampton) Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton)

"Private Returns to Public Office"

Vikrant Vig (LBS and CEPR) Ray Fisman(Columbia Business School), Florian Schulz (UCLA Anderson)

"Tax Collection and Private Governance: Evidence from French Businesses"

Laurent Bach (Stockholm School of Economics)

"Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India"

Rohini Pande (Harvard University and CEPR), Esther Duflo (MIT and CEPR), Michael Greenstone (MIT and CEPR) Nicholas Ryan (MIT)