Dustin Swonder

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley economics department. I am a public finance economist interested in household and business investment decisions. I am on the job market in 2026-27.

Before graduate school, I worked as a research assistant with the Princeton Program in Public Finance. I hold a bachelor's degree from Harvard University.

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Job market paper
Homeownership and Liquidity: Evidence from a California Lottery (with Ian Sapollnik) Draft coming soon!
Working papers
A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Optimal Corporate Taxes (with Damián Vergara) 2026. Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
Publications
Tax Policy and Business Entry (with Ian Sapollnik) 2025. Journal of Public Economics, 252: 105537.
A Simple Model of Corporate Tax Incidence (with Damián Vergara) 2024. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 352-357.

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