Macroeconomics · Public Finance

Sepideh Raei

Following the tax code through the economy — from household budgets to firm balance sheets.

Associate Professor of Economics
Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University

I build structural models, take them to data, and run the policy experiments you can’t run on a real economy: What if households could choose their own tax system? What if every legal form of business were taxed alike? My work traces how tax design shapes the decisions of households, firms, and banks — and how to design reforms that people would actually vote for.