Mathilde Muñoz

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Research Fellow, NBER (Public Economics · ITI)  ·  Research Fellow, IZA  ·  PhD, Paris School of Economics (2022)

Mathilde Muñoz

About

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, working at the intersection of public economics, international trade, and economic geography. My research studies how economic integration and the rising mobility of people, firms, and capital across borders and regions reshape local economies and national policies, and whether governments can still tax, redistribute, and develop lagging regions when their tax and regulatory bases are mobile.

Publications & Forthcoming

International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations

American Economic Review, 2025 (Lead Article)

Media: Trade Talks podcast (ep. 197)

Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications

American Economic Review, forthcoming · with Jakobsen, Kleven, Kolsrud & Landais

Media: The Wall Street Journal

Trading Non-Tradables: The Implications of Europe's Job Posting Policy

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024 · Appendix

Awards: OECD Future of Work Fellowship (2020) · WTO Young Economist Award (2022)

Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020 · with Kleven, Landais & Stantcheva

Working Papers

Pensioners Without Borders

R&R, American Economic Review · with Kalin & Levy

Media: NBER Digest · Le Figaro

Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax

R&R, Review of Economic Studies · with Garbinti, Goupille-Lebret, Stantcheva & Zucman · Appendix

Media: VoxEU column

Senior Migration, Local Economic Development and Spatial Concentration

2026 · with Badilla-Maroto, Faber & Levy

Media: Le Grand Continent · Le Monde · Les Échos

Work in Progress

Foreign Opportunity and Local Revival: Evidence from the French Rust Belt

with Levy

Tax Discrimination: Competition in the Market for Firms

with Slattery

Earlier Working Papers

Do European Top Earners React to Labor Taxation Through Migration?

WIL Working Paper, 2023

Awards: IIPF Young Economist Award (2019)

Contact

Emailmathildemunoz@berkeley.edu
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