Marek Kapička

Marek Kapička serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in macroeconomic theory and public finance policy design.

His academic credentials include:

• B.A. in Economics, Charles University (1996)
• M.A. in Economics, Charles University (1998)
• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago (2003)

Professor Kapička's research focuses on optimal tax design within dynamic life-cycle frameworks, examining how endogenous human capital formation influences income tax policies and educational subsidies. His methodological contributions include extending the first-order approach to dynamic private information economies with persistent shocks, enabling new analyses of efficient resource allocation under informational constraints. This work bridges theoretical macroeconomics with practical tax policy formulation, particularly in contexts involving human capital accumulation and intergenerational mobility.

As a Network Member in the Markets (M) research network, his scholarship addresses fundamental questions in public economics with implications for welfare-maximizing fiscal systems.