Floris Zoutman is an Associate Professor in public economics with a PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 2014. His research interests include optimal taxation, political competition, and social insurance. He has published in Econometrica, the Economic Journal and in the Journal of Public Economics.
Further, he has been a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley and a visiting scholar at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Research. In 2013 he received the IIPF Young Economists Award.
Department of Business and Management Science, NHH
Main: Business Taxation
Secondary: Asset Management and Risk Analysis
Petter Bjerksund, Guttorm Schjelderup and Floris T. Zoutman: Menon's tax report for NHO misleads readers. It inflates the importance of wealth tax and sets up calculations that falsely double the effective average tax rate.
The Tax loop workshop at NHH this week: How to improve taxation of businesses and their owners.
Once a year, the representative of the tax authorities from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden meet to discuss the latest on the taxation of dividend income. This year, they met in Stavanger on May 23, 2023 and for the first time they invited researchers for one day workshop around the topic of dividend tax arbitrage.
Petter Bjerksund, Guttorm Schjelderup and Floris T. Zoutman: Total tax on owners and companies in Norway is 13.5 percentage points higher than in the countries with which we should compare ourselves. Norway is on the wrong track.
By Steffen Juranek and Floris T. Zoutman has been published in the Journal of Population Economics.
By Steffen Juranek, Jörg Paetzold, Hannes Winner and Floris T. Zoutman is forthcoming in Kyklos.
The article "The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia" has been published in Journal of Population Economics.
Towards a tax on actual returns by Aart Gerritsen and Floris T. Zoutman is forthcoming in Tax by Design for the Netherlands.
The lockdown in Norway has been successful in reducing the pressure on the healthcare system. If Norway would have followed the more lenient Swedish response, the peak number of COVID19 hospitalizations would have been three times higher.
Associate Professors at the Department of Business and Management Science, Floris Zoutman and Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman, awarded for article on legalizing medical marijuana.
A paper by Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman and Floris Zoutman has received great attention from international media.
Several of the researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Taxation have published in top ranked journals in 2017. Last in the series of top articles is forthcoming in Econometrica.
