Matias Giaccobasso

Senior Researcher, VATT Institute for Economic Research || FIT Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research

• Research Affiliate, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (2025–)
• Investigador Asociado, Nivel I, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Uruguay

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I am an applied microeconomist working in public economics, at the intersection of labor, development, and behavioral economics. My research studies how tax systems and social policies shape individual and firm behavior, opportunities, public finances, and social welfare. I study these questions using administrative data, survey data, field experiments, and quasi-experimental methods, often in collaboration with public institutions.

I completed my Ph.D. in Economics and Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2023. Since then I have been a Senior Researcher at VATT Institute for Economic Research. Before my PhD, I studied economics and worked as a research assistant at the Instituto de Economía (IECON), Universidad de la República, in Uruguay.

public economicslabor economicsdevelopment economicsbehavioral economics