Simon Toussaint
Academic lecturer
- Name
- Dr. S.J. Toussaint
- Telephone
- 071 5271735
- s.j.toussaint@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5376-8900
Simon Toussaint is Academic Lecturer at the Department of Economics.
More information about Simon Toussaint
Short bio
Simon Toussaint obtained his PhD at Utrecht University. His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, public finance and financial economics. In his research, he analyses the upper tail of the wealth distribution, in the Netherlands and worldwide. To do so, he uses a diverse toolkit (from historical analysis to structural econometrics) and analyses the series constructed by him through the lens of macroeconomic models.
Teaching
- Economic Analysis of Tax Policy
- Principles of Economics LUC
- Economics for Policy Makers
- Applied Welfare Economics
- Macroeconomics LUC
- Behavioral Economics
- BA-theses EBM
- MA-theses MPA
- Supervising internship
Academic lecturer
- Faculty of Law
- Institute of Tax Law and Economics
- Economics
- Toussaint S.J., de Vicq A., Moatsos M. & Valk T. van der (2025), Wealth-income ratios in a small, open economy: The Netherlands, 1854–2019, European Economic Review 178: 105099.
- Martínez-Toledano C., Sodano A. & Toussaint S.J. (2023), Wealth inequality in the Netherlands, 1894 – 2019: Updated series with and without pension wealth. World Inequality Lab Technical Note no. 2023/13. Paris, France: World Inequality Lab. [briefing paper].
- Vicq A. de, Toussaint S.J., Valk T. van der & Moatsos M. (2023), De vermogensongelijkheid stijgt sinds de jaren tachtig, Economisch Statistische Berichten 108(4820): 156-157.
- Vicq A. de, Toussaint S.J., Valk T. van der & Moatsos M. (2023), Kolonisatie Nederlands-Indië droeg sterk bij aan privaat vermogen, Economisch Statistische Berichten 108(4820): 152-155.