Owen Zidar

Owen M. Zidar
Born1985 (1985)
NationalityAmerican
EducationBA., Economics
PhD., Economics
Occupation(s)Economist and academic
Academic career
InstitutionPrinceton University
National Bureau of Economic Research
Alma materDartmouth College
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral
advisor		Alan J. Auerbach
Patrick Kline
Emmanuel Saez
ContributionsResearch on inequality and tax policy

Owen M. Zidar is an American economist and academic. He is a professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Princeton University Department of Economics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs[1] as well as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[2]

Zidar's research focuses on inequality, the taxation of companies and high-income earners, local fiscal policies, and the generation and allocation of economic profits.[3] He is the recipient of the 2018 National Science Foundation CAREER Award,[4] the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,[5] and he was named Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. Fellow by the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton in 2020.[6] Additionally, he was a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics from 2020 to 2023[7] and the volume Policy Responses to Tax Competition in 2024.[8]

  1. ^ "Owen Zidar". zidar.princeton.edu.
  2. ^ "Owen M. Zidar". NBER.
  3. ^ "Owen Zidar". scholar.google.com.
  4. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1752431 - CAREER: Business Taxation and Local Fiscal Policy". www.nsf.gov.
  5. ^ "Zidar Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow". Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
  6. ^ "Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. Fellows".
  7. ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Public Economics. 185: 104193. May 23, 2020. doi:10.1016/s0047-2727(20)30057-8.
  8. ^ Agrawal, David R.; Poterba, James M.; Zidar, Owen M. (May 23, 2024). "Policy Responses to Tax Competition". University of Chicago Press – via National Bureau of Economic Research.