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Daniel Waldenström recently visited the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Fiscal Affairs Department in Washington, D.C. During the visit, Daniel Waldenström delivered two presentations. In the first, he presented recent research findings on capital taxation, an area of major importance in the ongoing international tax policy debate.

Daniel Waldenström, researcher at IFN and chairman of the Swedish Economic Association, discussed economic inequality in advanced economies with Gabriel Zucman, Paris School of Economics, with a particular focus on Sweden.

On November 24, Daniel Waldenström was invited to speak about ownership, distribution, and capital taxation at the Norwegian ownership conference Eierkonferansen. The conference was organized by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, and Family Business Network Norway.

Daniel Waldenström was invited to speak at the European Family Business conference held in Lisbon on October 13–14. Daniel participated in two sessions. First, in a panel discussion on wealth taxation and experiences from Sweden, and then in a presentation based on his book Richer and More Equal – A New History of Wealth in the West, with a discussion on ownership and distribution as well as growth and lessons from history.

IFN:s new research program "Taxes and Society" has organized an international conference. Researchers from other Nordic countries and the US attended the conference in Vaxholm with the purpose to present new research on taxes and distributional issues.

IFN researcher Daniel Waldenström is interviewed in French Polytechnique Insights on the much-debated topic of economic inequality.

Daniel Waldenström, IFN, presents new research on wealth and inequality in a column in Vox EU. Currently, the column is the most-read piece on Vox EU.

Daniel Waldenström, IFN, is one of the participants in this year's SNS Tylösand Summit: Economic policy in the covid world and beyond.