
Michael Best
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Assistant professor at @columbia_econ working in public and development economics. Dad.
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http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/mcb2270/ 31-12-2010 16:50:13
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Come work with us! Tatiana Mocanu and I are hiring a pre-doctoral fellow to work with us Columbia Economics starting later this summer. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/124541 cc Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org



🔵 In a first-ever attempt to connect company records to real estate ownership information in France, our report with Transparency International France & Anti-Corruption Data Collective has uncovered loopholes through which criminals can still launder & invest money in French real estate. transparency.org/en/news/search…

New at Anti-Corruption Data Collective! We spent months scraping over 5 million websites to build a French beneficial ownership database from scratch What did we find? 1) Over 1.5 million companies still haven’t declared owners! acdatacollective.org/blog/window-or…


In the next episode Michael Best (Michael Best) will argue that, in the public sector, there are large differences in productivity across ex ante identical individuals and organisations #EconTwitter

🆕 Sanitation and property tax compliance: Analysing the social contract in Brazil 🇧🇷 Evan Plous Kresch Oberlin College, Mark Walker Princeton Economics, Michael Best Columbia Economics, Francois Gerard School of Economics & Finance at Queen Mary & Joana Naritomi LSE International Development outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

We (including Michael Best (Columbia), Adnan Qadir Khan (LSE), and Anders Jensen (Harvard)) are seeking a research associate with excellent data skills. Please share with anyone who might be a good fit. hr.lums.edu.pk/node/16351 #EconTwitter Econ RA Listings Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre Economics@LUMS

A conversation with Giulia Mascagni at a Zurich conference became an idea, then we joined forces with Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social, @mazharwaxim & Vedanth Nair and now our paper using admin VAT data from 11 countries is at the Journal of Economic Perspectives AEA Journals. Check it out!👇

How can lower income countries collect more taxes? That’s a big question on the minds of many government officials and researchers. Gabe Tourek Gabriel Tourek and I offer some answers in our new paper just out in the Journal of Econ Perspectives @aeapubs aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… 1/n



Columbia's Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue is hiring a full-time RA (pre-doc) to work with Joseph E. Stiglitz and me and others on issues related to the design and evaluation of industrial policies. Job announcement is here: apply.interfolio.com/139981. Please pass on word. Econ RA Listings



Come work with us! We (Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) Gautam Gowrisankaran, Pietro Tebaldi, and I) are hiring pre-docs to start in summer 2025. Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org


