Annette Alstadsæter

Annette Alstadsæter is a Professor at the School of Economics and Business at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Her academic work focuses on public economics with particular expertise in tax policy, tax compliance, and wealth inequality.

Professor Alstadsæter's research interests center on tax evasion, tax compliance, tax havens, wealth distribution, and dividend taxation. Her work often employs Norwegian micro data to examine how individuals and corporations respond to tax policies, with significant contributions to understanding the relationship between tax systems and economic inequality. She has conducted influential research on tax avoidance mechanisms and the effectiveness of tax enforcement strategies.

Her scholarly output shows consistent productivity with numerous publications in working paper series including NBER, CESifo, and Skatteforsk. Recent work has expanded to examine economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside her core tax research.

Professor Alstadsæter maintains extensive international collaborations with researchers from institutions including UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of Copenhagen. Her co-authorship with prominent economists like Gabriel Zucman on tax haven research has contributed to important policy discussions about global tax systems.

Her research methodology primarily involves empirical analysis of administrative tax data, often using quasi-experimental approaches to identify causal effects of tax policies. This rigorous empirical approach has established her as a significant contributor to the field of public economics with practical implications for tax policy design.