Political Economy

Public economics, political economics, political economy, theory of organizations, banking regulation, public policy evaluation, European integration

Pierre Boyer is a Professor at the CREST Department for Economics at Ecole Polytechnique at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP)
Pierre also serves as a Deputy Director of the Institute and Program Director for “Democracy and Institutions” at the Institut des politiques publiques (IPP)
in Paris. He is affiliated with the CEPR and the CESifo as well as associated with the Collaborative Research Center “Political Economy of Reforms” (Sonderforschungsbereich 884) at the University of Mannheim. In 2017 he was awarded the Edmond Malinvaud Prize by the French Economic Association (AFSE). Pierre studied Econometrics in Toulouse and received his PhD in Economics in 2010.

Published papers

• Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit

  Bierbrauer, F. J., Boyer, P. C., & Hansen, E. (2023). Pareto‐Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Econometrica.

• Politically Feasible Reforms of Non-linear Tax Systems

  Bierbrauer, F., & Boyer, P. (2018). Politically feasible reforms of non-linear tax systems.

Discussion papers

• The Taxation of Couples

• Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit

Policy briefs

• Fantastic tax cuts and where to find them

• Towards Politically Feasible and Welfare-Improving Tax Reforms