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Pierre Bachas

Pierre Bachas

Economist, Development Economics

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Areas of Expertise
  • Public finance
  • Optimal tax design
  • Informality and tax evasion
  • Fiscal policy and inequality
  • Financial inclusion

Pierre Bachas is an Economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth Team in the Development Research Group.?His research focuses on public finance. His work uses mainly administrative data, in collaboration with tax administrations, to evaluate the design of taxes and transfers and their impact on equity and efficiency. He also studies international taxation and how digital technology is changing public finance and accelerating financial inclusion. He holds a Bachelor and master's in economics from the LSE, and a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. He previously was an Assistant Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris.

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