Rate My Professor Maxime Gravoueille

Maxime Gravoueille is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics at Monash University, part of the Monash Business School, a position he has held since October 2023. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2023, following an M.A. in Economics from the same institution in 2017 and a B.S. in Economics from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2015. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting student at the Institute for Fiscal Studies from February to June 2022, sponsored by Professor Sir Richard Blundell. He is affiliated with the Economics of Innovation Lab at the Collège de France as a research associate since 2023 and is a member of the HEELP research group (Health, Enviro, Ed, Labour, Public) at Monash University.

Gravoueille's research centers on public economics, labor economics, income dynamics, and firm dynamics, utilizing theoretical and empirical approaches with administrative data to inform policy debates on government interventions such as taxes, benefits, wage subsidies, and regulations. His key working papers include "Wage and Employment Effects of Wage Subsidies" (revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy); "Tax Simplicity or Simplicity of Evasion? Evidence from Self-Employment Taxes in France," co-authored with Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Matthieu Lequien, and Stefanie Stantcheva; "Anatomy of Inequality and Income Dynamics in France," with Philippe Aghion, Vlad Ciornohuz, and Stefanie Stantcheva; and "Corporate Bankruptcy as Worker Insurance," joint with Simon Margolin and Thomas Zuber. He has presented at conferences including EEA-ESEM, IIPF Annual Congress, AFSE, and seminars at institutions such as UNSW, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, CREST, and LMU Munich. Gravoueille received a Department of Economics Research Grant of 10,000 AUD in 2024. He serves on the Junior Hiring Committee (2024–2025), as Early Career Researcher Representative for Monash Business School (2024–present), organizes Monash University's Applied Economics seminar, and referees for journals including American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Economica, and Economic Journal. He teaches Public Finance at the undergraduate level at Monash University.